INDEX 



579 



cut, 515 ; diseases, sore mouth, 

 425; facilities for raising, 

 Mississippi, 467, 477, 494; 

 Missouri, 425, 436; feeding, 

 120, 143, 260, 328-29, 359, 396, 

 408, 497-98, 548-49, 550; 

 marking, 396; prices, 261, 

 326, 327, 348, 394; produc- 

 tion costs, 261, 326-29; shear- 

 ing, 205, 551-52; shelters, 

 yarding, 122-23, 396, 406, 

 408, 550-51; washing, 551. 

 See also Wool. 



Shelby, Dr. John, 313n. 



Shobonier ( Shobonnier, Sheva- 

 lya, Shovalya, Chevalier, 

 Chevalya), reserve to, 12-15n, 

 80-84; in "The Will," 23, 169- 

 70, 184, 186-87, 192-93, 197- 

 201. 



Silk culture, La Porte County, 

 322; morus multicaulis, 302, 

 322; silkworms, feeding, 303; 

 United States, 88, 525n, 528. 



Silk Journal, The (Baltimore), 

 214n. 



Sinclair, Robert, Jr., Robinson 

 visits, 275-76. 



Skinner, John Stuart, 268-69n. 



Slavery, Robinson's views on, 

 37-38. See also Negroes. 



Slick, Samuel, of Slickville, 100. 



Smith, Gideon B., 214. 



Smith, H. C, 303. 



Smith, J. D., 133. 



Smith, John A., 266, 270. 



Smith, Joseph, 509. 



Smith, Oliver H., 267. 



Smith, T. S., 266. 



Smith, Truman, see Smith, T. S. 



Smithsonian Fund, 87n, 209. 



Snakes, 400. 



Snowden, Colonel, of Missouri, 

 431. 



Soap making, 237-38. 



Soil, varieties, Alabama, 500-1; 

 Illinois, 412, 416, 419; prairie, 

 northwestern Indiana, 53, 60, 

 260, 262, 288, 354-55, 358, 

 359, 374, 496-97; Mississippi, 

 460, 466, 480, 484, 485, 490- 

 91; Missouri, 431, 441; New 

 Harmony, Ind., 510; Tennes- 

 see, 447, 448. 



Soil conservation, 292, 301-2, 

 374; lack of, 128, 274, 347, 

 353, 360, 382, 384, 447, 448, 

 450n, 467, 473, 475, 492-93, 

 501, 548. See also Ditching, 

 side-hill. 



Solon (Ind.), Robinson's pro- 

 jected town, 7-9; advertise- 

 ment, sale of lots, 46. 



South-Western Farmer (Ray- 

 mond, Miss.), 454, 465n, 474, 

 476, 479-80. 



Spanish moss, 464, 476. 



Springfield (111.), Robinson 

 visits (1845), 416-19. 



Squatters' Union, Lake and 

 Porter counties, Ind., organi- 

 zation, 11-12, 68-69; constitu- 

 tion, 69-76. 



Stables, see Farm buildings. 



Stainbrook, Peter, and others, 

 petition to president, 66-67. 



Stapp and Shannon, of Madi- 

 son, 48. 



Starved Rock (111.), 412. 



Steamboats, travel costs (1845), 

 534-36, 537-38; travel by, 

 538-44. 



Stevenson, Thomas B., 213; 

 national agricultural society, 

 views on organization, 165n- 

 66n; Robinson visits, 248-49. 



Stone, in northwestern Indiana, 

 53, 286, 350, 382-83; in Mis- 

 sissippi, 449, 457. 



Stone scraper, 318. 



Strait, George F., 33. 



