580 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



Strait, Harry Robinson, 41. 



Strait, Josephine Salinda, see 

 Robinson, Josephine Salinda. 



Straw, use in icehouse construc- 

 tion, 300. See also Fertilizers. 



Strawberries, wild, 58. 



Stringham, Stephen P., 67; ar- 

 bitrator, Squatters' Union, 

 69; deposition, Shobonier 

 claim, 83-84. 



Stump-pulling machine, 513. 



Styptic, 316. 



Sugar, 526; cornstalk, 293, 526; 

 dietary value, 204; made by 

 Indians, 63-64; maple versus 

 cane, 203; refined versus 

 common, 203. 



Sugar maples, 63, 413. 



Sumach, use for rail timber, 

 468-69. 



Sunflowers, 115-17. 



Swamps and marshes, in north- 

 western Indiana, 54, 119, 286, 

 288, 358, 385; Mississippi, 

 drained for cotton, 453; Mis- 

 souri, 439, 442, 444. 



Swartwout, Samuel, 132. 



Sweet gum, see Liquidambar. 



Sweet potatoes, 443, 483; keep- 

 ing, 457, 482. 



Syracuse (N. Y.), state fair, 

 304-8. 



Tallahatchie River, 449. 



Tallow, 347. 



Taxation, Indiana, 522-23. 



Taylor, Adonijah, 67. 



Tazewell County (111.), Robin- 

 son tour through (1845), 414- 

 15. 



Tea, dietary value questioned, 

 205. 



Temperance, colony, Delavan, 

 111., 415; Lake County, 21; 

 Kentucky, 254. See also Rob- 

 inson, Solon. 



Tennessee, Robinson tour 

 through (1845), 445-48, 501- 

 3; state penitentiary, 503. 



Thompson, Dr. James W., 268; 

 Robinson visits, 281, 291-92. 



Threshing machines, 240-41, 

 322, 368. 



Timber, Illinois, 60, 412, 413, 

 416, 419, 422; 



Indiana: central, 243-44 ; 

 northwestern, 53-54, 56, 57- 

 58, 61, 77, 107-8, 286, 288, 

 346, 350, 385; 

 market, effect of nonenclos- 

 ure system on, 338-39; Missis- 

 sippi, 449, 480, 487; shade 

 trees, 238-39, 411; Tennessee, 

 447, 448; undergrowth, 286, 

 355; waste, 462. 



Timothy, pasture, 260, 287, 328 ; 

 seed, demand for, 312. 



Tippecanoe, Battle of, dealt 

 with in "The Will," 22, 168- 

 70, 172-75, 182-83, 199. 



Tippecanoe Battleground Con- 

 vention, 19, 131-32, 133-34, 

 136n. 



Tipton, John, 18. 



Tobacco, curing, Tennessee, 445- 

 46; Indiana, 58, 376-80; Mis- 

 sissippi, 487, 488, 512; plant- 

 ing, Missouri, 440-41, 442; as 

 supplement to cotton, 488, 

 526; worm, 446, 447. 



Tomatoes, Mississippi, 470. 



Tonkin, Edward, Robinson 

 visits, 295. 



Town, Dr., 457. 



Townsend, Isaac, Robinson 

 visits, 407-8. 



Transportation, costs, railroads 

 and steamboats, 533-38; for 

 western produce, 369, 375, 

 376; problem at iron mines, 

 Missouri, 441. See also Rail- 

 roads, Roads, Steamboats. 



