INDEX 



581 



Tremont (111.) , Robinson visits 

 (1845), 414. 



Trenton (N. J.), Robinson visits 

 (1841), 303-4. 



Troost, Dr. Gerard, 313n. 



True, Moses, 425. 



Tucker, Luther, 138, 152, 212, 

 376, 381, 401n, 427; urged to 

 organize national agricul- 

 tural society, 155-56; declines 

 responsibility of beginning 

 national agricultural organi- 

 zation, 156n, 164; Robinson 

 visits, 305-6. 



Turnips, 58, 346. 



Twenty Mile Prairie (Ind.), 12. 



Tyler, John, 541. 



Typographical art, Warren in- 

 vention relating to, 28, 504-7. 



Union Agricultural Society 

 (northeastern Illinois) , 26, 

 322n; fair, Aurora, 111., 335- 

 36 ; inclusion of women urged, 

 202-3, 224; publication of, 

 157n; Robinson's address be- 

 fore, 215-36; Robinson's serv- 

 ices to, 25. 



Union Agriculturist, The (Chi- 

 cago, 111.), 26n, 277, 363n; 

 Robinson tour in interests of, 

 321n-22n; continued as 

 Prairie Farmer, 157n. 



United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, 509n. 



Utica (N. Y.), state fair at 

 (1845), 511-17. 



Valparaiso (Ind.), senatorial 

 convention at, 18, 132-33. 



Van Bergen, Anthony, 306. 



Van Buren, Martin, 137. 



Vegetables, in northwestern In- 

 diana, 58, 206, 346; Missis- 

 sippi, 453-54, 459, 469, 477; 

 Missouri, 443; storehouse for 

 winter, 300-1. 



Vermilion River, power, 412. 

 Vermilionville (111.), 412. 

 Vicksburg (Miss.), Robinson 



visits (1845), 466, 468. 

 Vincennes (Ind.), 507. 



Wabash and Erie Canal, 242, 

 243, 376. 



Wabash Valley, soil, 262. 



Wages, northwestern Indiana, 

 327, 355, 370. 



Ware, Ralph, 412. 



Warren, Josiah, new method of 

 printing, 28, 505-6. 



Warren County (Miss.), Robin- 

 son tour through (1845), 

 466-73. 



Warriner, Norman, 21. 



Washington (D. C), agricul- 

 ture near, 274; National So- 

 ciety of Agriculture, meeting 

 to form, 264-70; public build- 

 ings, 275. 



Washington (111.), 413. 



Weather, Illinois, 424; Indiana, 

 57, 106-7, 128, 240, 363, 366- 

 67, 504, 507-8; Middle West, 

 hard winter (1843), 372-73, 

 374; Mississippi, 448-49, 451, 

 467, 475, 477, 478, 482, 483, 

 490; Missouri, 428, 436, 438, 

 443; New York, 512, 514; 

 Tennessee, 503. See also 

 Drouths, Floods. 



Wells, Henry, 65, 67, 388; depo- 

 sition, Shobonier claim, 83-84; 

 Squatters' Union, on consti- 

 tutional committee of, 68; ar- 

 bitrator, 69. 

 Wells, William, death, 340-43, 



343-44. 

 Wells, average depth, 355-56; 

 construction, 383; cost, 327, 

 346; gas in, preventive for, 

 463; scarcity, Mississippi, 465. 

 West, F., 337, 364. 



