INDEX 



567 



440-41, 442-43; prairie, 58, 

 259-64, 344-47, 358-61, 366-71, 

 419-20; satire on unintelli- 

 gent, 100-6. See also Agricul- 

 ture, Emigrants, western, 

 National Society of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Farmington (Mo.), Robinson 

 visits (1845), 437-38. 



Fencing, against stock, 324-26, 

 462; ditching, 288, 289, 320; 

 importance, 27 ; picket-making 

 machine, 407; plantation, 461- 

 62; post and rail, on prairie, 

 58, 237; rails, cost, 261, 327, 

 346, 356; sumach used for, 

 468-69; sod, 237, 260, 320, 

 403; sod, ditch, and rail, 260, 

 261; stone, 382-83. See also 

 Nonenclosure. 



Fertilizers, cotton seed, 463; 

 guano, 27, 29; lime, 292; on 

 limestone soil, 436; manure, 

 animal, 292; marl, 292, 301; 

 prairie farming, value, 373- 

 74; straw, for vegetables, 78; 

 waste, 128, 347, 360, 370, 439. 



Field, Mrs. Albert S., of Brook- 

 lyn, Conn., 5. 



Figs, 460. 



Fish, in northwestern Indiana, 

 54, 62, 353 ; fisheries, 542. 



Flagg, Gershom, Robinson 

 visits, 426. 



Flax, 58, 323. 



Flaxseed, 354. 



Floods, Illinois, 414-15, 427; 

 Missouri, 442; Ohio River, 

 253; White River, 508. 



Florence (Ala.), 500. 



Florida, public lands, sales 

 (1838), 96. 



Florida Republican, Robinson 

 contributor to, 38-39. 



Florida Sun and Press, Robin- 

 son contributor to, 38-39. 



Flour, keeping qualities, 457, 

 460; mills, 407. 



Flowers, 238, 286, 452, 512, 520. 



Foley, John, 67. 



Fort Dearborn, see Chicago. 



Fort Gratiot, 541. 



Fort Mackinaw, 542. 



Foster, Charles, Robinson visits, 

 254. 



Fowler, Luman A., deposition, 

 Shobonier claim, 83. 



Fox River country, 60. 



Frankfort (Ky.), Robinson 

 visits (1841), 248-49. 



Franklin College (Tenn.), 26, 

 503. 



Franklin Farmer, The (Frank- 

 fort, Ky.), 26n, 98n, 109n, 

 251n. 



Fredericktown (Mo.), 439. 



French, Benjamin V., 269. 



Frissell, Willard, 435. 



Fruits, Delaware, 292; growing 

 combined with cotton raising, 

 470-72, 526; Illinois, 419, 420, 

 426; Indiana, 53, 58, 151, 323- 

 24, 334; killed by frost, 503-4; 

 Mississippi, 449, 450n, 460, 

 470-72, 475, 476; Missouri, 

 436, 438, 441-42. 



Fulton, William S., 268. 



Fur trade, 20, 65, 428. 



Gale, S. F., 388. 



Game, in northwestern Indiana, 

 54-55, 151, 353. 



Garnett, James M., 213; sketch, 

 154n ; promoter, national 

 agricultural organization, 



165n, 209n, 239-40, 267. 



Gary (Ind.), 60n. 



Gates, cheap, 123-24. 



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