562 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



American Institute of New 



York City, 36, 91, 525-26n, 



529. 

 American Turf Register and 



Sporting Magazine, 268n. 

 Antisell, Dr. Thomas, 30. 

 Apples, 256, 436, 504. 

 Architecture, New Harmony, 



Ind., 508-10; Spanish, 428, 



430-31. See also Farmhouses, 



Log cabins, Plantations, 



houses. 

 Arkansas, public lands, sales 



(1838), 95. 

 Army worm, 322. 

 Asparagus, 477. 

 Atwater, Abel, character in 



"The Will," 170-202 passim. 

 Atwater, Emily, character in 



"The Will," 172-202 passim. 

 Atwater, Fortune, character in 



"The Will," 170-202 passim. 

 Atwater, Indiana, character in 



"The Will," 173-202 passim. 

 Atwood, Moses G., 427. 

 Auburn (111.), Robinson visits 



(1845), 420-21. 

 Aurora (111.), 321n, 335-36, 407. 



Bacon, plantation use, 455, 456, 

 459-60 ; production, Cincin- 

 nati, 256. 



Baldwin, , of La Salle 



County, 111., 411. 



Ball, Hervey, 21. 



Ball, Rev. Timothy, opinion of 

 Robinson, 23-24. 



Baltimore (Md.), Robinson 

 visits (1841), 273, 275-78. 



Barberry, 139n, 145. 



Barley, 354. 



Barnaby and Mooer, side-hill 

 plow, 307-8, 467. 



Barns, see Farm buildings. 



Barrens, intermedium between 

 prairie and timber, 108, 286, 

 358-59, 444. 



Baskets, for plantation use, 462. 



Battel, William, 464. 



Beans, 346; curing of, 79-80, 

 110-11; prices, 58, 354. 



Beatty, Adam, sketch, 246n; 

 Robinson visits, 251, 252-53. 



Bedell, F. S., 33. 



Bedell, Leila Gertrude, see Rob- 

 inson, Leila Gertrude. 



Beef, Durhams for, 295, 515; 

 prairie-grass fed, 120, 143, 

 279, 286-87, 345, 359; produc- 

 tion cost, 345, 347, 361. 



Beers, Rev. Hawley B., 21. 



Beets, 58. 



Bement, Caleb N., 279, 294, 306, 

 435; sketch, 131n; hotel, 536; 

 National Society of Agricul- 

 ture, on constitutional com- 

 mittee of, 269. 



Benton, Thomas Hart, 137. 



Benton (Miss.), 463-64. 



Benton (Mo.), 442-43, 444. 



Bermuda grass, 485, 491-93, 

 494, 495. 



Biddle, Nicholas, sketch, 302n; 

 grape culture, 302, 303. 



Big Black (Chittaloosa) River, 

 465, 467. 



Birds, appreciation of, 238. 



Bloody flux, remedy, 77-78. 



Bluegrass, 260-61, 287, 408, 432. 



Bog iron ore, Lake County, Ind., 

 evidence of early working, 49. 



Bond, Jesse, 68. 



Boston Cultivator, The, 214n. 



Bottom, Capt. William, 4-5. 



Bowman, James L., 318. 



Bradford, John, 7. 



Bradley, John H., 127. 



Bradshaw, Nick, character, 

 Robinson satire on poor farm- 

 ing, 102 ff. 



