SOLON ROBINSON, 1840 131 



Reader, is the feed and care thus bestowed, worth one 

 cent a head each day? Then from the first of October 

 to this time is 166 days. I offer you a speculation. Give 

 me one dollar each, and the animals now ten months old, 

 are yours; and I will give you my bond with good se- 

 curity, that, so far as I am concerned, you shall have a 

 perfect monoply of all the breed, from this time, hence- 

 forth and forever. 



I have written to Mr. Allen, 1 at Buffalo, for a pair of 

 hogs, and I shall send to Mr. Bement, 2 at Albany, for 

 another pair, by the first opportunity. 



Will either of these gentlemen, or some other, publish 

 a reverse to my picture? 



I am a most sincere hater of alligators and landpikes. 3 

 Your friend, Solon Robinson. 



Lake Court-House, la. March 15, 1840. 



Plans for Harrison Convention 



[Indianapolis Semi-Weekly Journal, Apr. 7, 1840] 



Lake C. H. Ia., March 27, 1840. 

 Messrs. Douglass & Noel: 



I have seen the suggestion to postpone the meeting 

 upon the Tippecanoe battle ground, until the 4th of July. 4 



1 Anthony Benezet Allen, born in Hampshire County, Massa- 

 chusetts, June 24, 1802; died January 12, 1892. Founder of the 

 American Agriculturist in 1842 with his brother, Richard L. Allen. 

 Agricultural writer and implement manufacturer. See Dictionary 

 of American Biography, 1:185-86. In the Cultivator, June, 1840 

 (7:96), he made an amusing response to Robinson's ax-ticle. See 

 post, 138-39, for Robinson's description of the Berkshire hogs sup- 

 plied by Allen. 



2 Caleb N. Bement, of Three Hills Farm, Albany. Born 1790; 

 died at Poughkeepsie, New York, December 22, 1868. Agricultur- 

 ist, inventor, publicist. See Dictionary of American Biography, 

 2:172-73. 



3 The Cultivator for January, 1840 (7:12-14), contains "A Chap- 

 ter on Swine" with illustrations that fully justify Robinson's feel- 

 ings toward "alligators and landpikes." 



4 Robinson took an active part in the national election in 1840, 

 supporting William Henry Harrison. 



