550 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



Plantations (Conl.j 



186-87, 197-99, 240-45, 348- 

 49; dwellings, 142, 161, 164, 

 177, 189, 198, 200, 348-49, 368, 

 493-94; Georgia, 465-67, 469; 

 Louisiana, 146-54, 158-204; 

 Mississippi, 10, 127-29, 137- 

 38, 142-43; plain living on, 

 370; railroads on, 162, 184, 

 200; South Carolina, 344-55, 

 364-68; Virginia, 493-95. See 

 also Farming, Fuel, Negroes, 



Plaquemine (La.), 194. 



Plaster, see Fertilizers. 



Pleasant Grove (Ind.), 65. 



Plow, The (New York), 508. 



Plowing, depth, 166-67, 168, 

 187, 204, 225-26, 227, 234, 

 251-52, 309, 326, 360, 363, 378, 

 396-97, 450, 459, 461, 491-93. 



Plows, see Farm implements 

 and machinery. 



Polk, James K., 92n, 291. 



Polk, Bishop Leonidas, sugar 

 plantation, 201-4. 



Polk, William, 126n. 



Polk, Dr. William Junius, 126; 

 sugar plantation, 186-88. 



Pollock, Cullen, 223n. 



Pollock, George, 223n. 



Pollock, Thomas, 223. 



Pork, home curing, 17-20; pack- 

 ing, 117-18; 



prices: Delaware, 328; Indi- 

 ana, 64, 118; Mississippi, 

 137. 



Porter County (Ind.), mission, 

 65. 



Port Hope (Ont.), 407. 



Port Jervis (N. Y.), 316. 



Potatoes, Canada, 405, 511; dis- 

 ease, 36, 42; Georgia, 469; 

 preservation, 20-21, 39, 429; 

 prices, 327n, 365; yield, 252n, 

 326, 331. 



Potawatomi Indians, 51, 61. 



Pottery, manufacture of, 319- 



20. 

 PouUain, Dr. T. N., planter, 



472. 

 Poultry, ducks and geese, 140; 

 show at Boston, 430-36; 

 turkeys: cholera, 140; feed- 

 ing, 167. 

 Prescott (Ont.), 406n, 512-13. 

 Preston, Caroline (Hampton), 



171n. 

 Preston, John Smith, sugar 



planter, 171-72. 

 Prices, bacon, 64; buckwheat, 

 327n; butter, 64, 511; 

 cattle: Alabama, 244; Con- 

 necticut, 252n; Indiana, 63, 

 64; South Carolina, 242; 

 Virginia, 234; 

 cheese, 412; clay, 320; coal, 

 180; cordwood, 125, 180; 

 corn: Chicago, 96n; Dela- 

 ware, 327n; Indiana, 116, 

 335; New York, 38; North 

 Carolina, 227, 229, 361,362; 

 Vicksburg, 137; Virginia, 

 232; western, 47; 

 cotton: Alabama, 467; 

 Charleston, 240; Louisiana, 

 148; Mississippi, 10; 

 cottonseed, 129; cows, 63, 64, 

 414, 511; dairy products, 246, 

 328, 414; fence rails, 186; 

 flax, 39; flour, 38, 39, 64; 

 glass, 64; guano, 486; hay, 

 327n; hops, 38; horses, 198, 

 235; lime, 227; lumber, 61, 64, 

 173; marl, 323; milk, 438; 

 millstones, 455 ; molasses, 

 186; mules, 153; mustard, 38; 

 nails, 64; oats, 327n; plows, 

 127, 390; pork, 64, 118, 137, 

 328; potatoes, 327n; poultry, 

 Boston show, 431-33; rice, 

 186, 353, 366; rosin, 220-21; 

 rye, 38; salt, 456; shingles, 



