INDEX 



549 



New York (state), Robinson's 

 agricultural tour through, 

 411-17, 437-40; agricultural 

 society, 32n, 395n. 



New York (city), carts and 

 drays, 440; markets, 443-46, 

 504-8. 



New- York and Erie Railroad, 

 journey by, 314-18. 



New York and Harlem Rail- 

 road, 437. 



Nicol, A., 231n. 



Nordyke, Hiram, 65. 



Norfolk (Va.), lecture at, 334- 

 37. 



North American, 404. 



North Carolina, Robinson's ag- 

 ricultural tour through, 219- 

 31, 359-63, 452-53. 



Oats, Alabama, 467; Canada, 405, 

 409, 511; Connecticut, 252n; 

 Delaware, 327n; Georgia, 357, 

 459, 478; Louisiana, 162; Mis- 

 sissippi, 128; Virginia, 231. 



0-kee-chee, reservation, 447-48. 



Ormond Plantation (La.), 163- 

 68. 



Osgood, Isaac, sugar planter, 

 183-84. 



Overseers, plantations, 195-96, 

 197, 199, 204, 225-26, 231n, 

 232, 242, 289, 290, 296, 354, 

 360, 361, 362, 363, 367, 397. 



Owen, Robert Dale, 265. 



Oxen, 55, 56, 135, 166, 178, 181, 

 186, 190-91, 199, 203, 223, 

 234, 331; freight rates on, 

 391. 



Oxford (Miss.), 86-87. 



Oysters, planting of, 321. 



Packwood, Samuel, sugar plant- 

 er, 181. 



Paden (Padon), Isaac, article 

 mentioned, 94-95. 



Page, George, sawmill, 121, 130. 



Palmer, Dr. Henry D., 60, 79. 



Paper mills, 415, 474. 



Payne, William W., 66. 



Pea vines, see Fertilizers. 



Peabody, Charles A., editor, 

 467n, 468, 497; on strawberry 

 culture, 497-98. 



Peacocke, James S., 27. 



Peel, Sir Robert, on English 

 factory system, 283. 



Pelton, Hiram S., 53, 58, 61, 66, 

 67, 70, 78, 79. 



Penitentiaries, Baton Rouge, 

 153. 



Pennock's sowing machine, 28- 

 29. 



Pennsylvania, Robinson's jour- 

 ney through eastern, 326. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety, 325n. 



Perkins, Dr. James, sugar 

 planter, 146-47. 



Perkins, Lewis, 147n. 



Perkins and Brown, wool buy- 

 ers, 94. 



Pests, chinch bug, 394; curculio, 

 483; potato worm, 91; rats, 

 140; tobacco woi'm, 91-92, 

 464; weevil, 30. 



Peters, Richard, stock breeder, 

 468-69. 



Peters, T. C, 34. 



Petersburg Railroad, 452. 



Pettibone, David K., 79, 84n. 



Philadelphia (Pa.), 326, 449. 



Philadelphia Agricultural Socie- 

 ty, 399. 



Philips, Martin W., 33, 40, 41, 

 135, 149, 206n, 295, 429; on 

 hedging, 3, 5n; Robinson vis- 

 its, 127-31. 



Pierce, Myiel, 63. 



Pierce and Osborn, 431. 



Piermont (N. Y.), 316. 



Plantations, abandoned, 149-50; 

 Alabama, 241, 244-45; costs 

 and valuations, 10, 172, 181, 



