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Show 374 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. RUDE AGRICULTURE. " The mode of cultivation is with an old wooden plow, working their cattle by the horns. They scratch up the ground very poorly, afterwards doing much work with the hoe ; they regulate their ground for watering by making small embankments around small, irregular plats, from thirty to fifty feet across, and flooding the land. I think this a poor way, as it causes their land to bake very hard ; but this is the manner in which their fathers did it, so they think it is all right. They cultivate all open crops with the hoe, using the large, old- fashioned ' nigger' hoe. They cut their hay with the same tool. In Arizona we saw hundreds of tons, at the government posts, cut in this same way. They harvest with reap hooks and thresh with goats or flails. MECHANICS, DOCTORS AND LAWYERS. " Mechanics are scarce. In this town of ten thous-and inhabitants there is one blacksmith shop, three or four carpenter shops, two tailors, three or four shoe shops, one wheel- wright and one silversmith. And this is, as far as I have been able to learn, about the whole number. " To compensate for this lack of mechanics, there is but one doctor and one lawyer ; and the latter is sup-posed to be insane, as he has quit the practice, walks quietly around the town, says but little to anyone, is polite, dresses neatly and seems to mind his own busi-ness. My opinion is that he is the most sensible lawyer I have ever seen. LIMITED COMMERCE. " The commerce of the country is limited. The peo-ple sell their wines and dried fruits generally as soon as |