574 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



Ohio River, effect of drouth 



upon (1841), 253, 257; floods, 



253. 

 Okachickama (Miss.), 454. 

 One Dime A Day, 34, 35. 

 Onions, 58, 354. 

 Orange County (N. Y.), milk 



farm, 545-47. 

 Osborn, J. W., 213n. 

 Osborne, Thomas Burr, 270. 

 Osceola, or the Last of the 



Seminoles, writing of, 39. 

 Oswego (111.), Robinson visits 



(1845), 407. 

 Ottawa (111.), Robinson visits 



(1845), 410-11. 

 Ouplane River, see Des Plaines 



River. 

 Owen, David Dale, 509. 

 Owen, Robert, 505n, 508n, 509, 



510. 

 Owen, Thomas J. V., 81, 82, 83. 

 Oxen, 58, 261, 279, 294, 348, 



367, 385, 402, 446, 515. 

 Oxford (Miss.), 449. 

 Oyster plant, 206. 

 Ozier willows, 462. 



Page, George, sawmill, 277. 



Patent Office, farm implements 

 and machinery, collection of, 

 271, 275, 297, 298-99. 



Patents, United States Commis- 

 sioner of, see Ellsworth, 

 Henry Leavitt. 



Patrick, Ebenezer, 51. 



Patterson, , of Putnam 



County, 111., 413. 



Payne, W. W., 67. 



Peaches, Delaware, 528; In- 

 diana, Lake County, 323-24; 

 Middle West, killed by frost, 

 504; Mississippi, 449, 450n, 

 460, 470-72, 475, 476; New 

 Jersey, 296, 301; Ohio, 256; 



prices, 256, 472 ; pruning, 292, 

 438. 



Peas, 58, 346, 354, 459, 487. 



Pedder, James, 278n, 284n, 295; 

 sketch, 214n. 



Pelton, Hiram S., 19n; deposi- 

 tion, Shobonier claim, 83-84. 



Penitentiary system, Robinson 

 comments on, 28, 313-15. 



Pennsylvania, Robinson tour 

 through (1841), 294-95. 



Pests, army worm, 322; potato 

 bug, 256; tobacco worm, 446, 

 447; weevil, 447, 508, 527-28. 

 See also Wolves. 



Philadelphia (Pa.), agricultural 

 society, 293; Robinson visits, 

 278-81. 



Philips, Martin Wilson, 476-77, 

 495; sketch, 465n, 474-75; 

 National Society of Agricul- 

 ture, on constitutional com- 

 mittee of, 267-68; Robinson 

 visits (1845), 465-73, 494. 



Philips' Southern Farmer, 465n. 



Pickens, Francis Wilkinson, 269. 



Pierce, , manufacturer of 



steel plows, 476. 



Pindell (Pindle), Richard, 250- 

 51. 



Pitchforks, 307, 309. 



Plainfield (111.), 405. 



Plant breeding, seed selection, 

 116. 



Plantations, descriptions, 455- 

 58, 459-62, 481-82, 486-90; 

 houses, 458, 481, 487; Ken- 

 tucky, setting, 252; outbuild- 

 ings, 458; overseers, 482; 

 profit, 488; stabling, 481, 489- 

 90; stock, 457, 459, 486-87. 



Plough, the Loom, and the An- 

 vil, The, 269n. 



Plow, The (New York), suc- 

 ceeds American Agriculturist, 

 30-31. 



