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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. DEPARTXENT OF THE INTERIOR, OFFICE OF INDIAANFF AIRS, Wasl~ingtonN,o vember 1,1880. SIR: I hare the honor td submit herewith the annual report of the Indian Bureau for the ye.ar 1880. Gradual progress in the arts'of industry has been made by the vaxions Indian tribes during the past year, and in some instances the advance-ment toward civilization has been marked. The efforts of anumber of the tribes in cultivating the soil have been attended with a degree of suc-cess that Itas set at rest the question not only of their ability to learn t.he arts of h~~sbandrbyn, t also of their willingness to engage in pursuits at once honorable and lucrative, which, at no distant day, will make^ them self-supporting, and place them beyond the care of the govern-ment. Special reference mill be found hereinafter to those tribes whose progress in farming and other pursuits has been especially noteworthy. The following table gives a general exhibit of the work accomplished and the gain made during the year by theIndian8 of the wuntry in the direction of farming, stock raising, house bnilding, &c. : .~ . ~ j 1880. 1 1810. -- 1s111.\28 EXDLCBLIB OP FIVE CIYILI%&D TBTIIBB. 1 1 Nun~bero f narescultiaated. ................................................ .......................... ..... 314.398 Number of bodnula of wheat miad. .I 336421 of of oorn ..................................................................................... 2.316, wa liomber of bus~le~oaf oatsa db a r l e~m inea / 1w.568 Number of bnsbels of ~ogetnblesrs ieed ........................................... 505 000 Nomber of tons of ha^ ........................................................ 125.M0 Number of bales of oottoo r.a.m.*.... ................................................................................................ . Number of horees ownul.. Number of malee owned .......................................................... Number of carttie owned .......................................................... 201,040 Nlnnlrer of swine owned.. ........................ :. .............................. 400,282 Bumbcrof shoep ......................................................... 34,034 |