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Show 460 BEPOBT OF SUPERINTENDENOTF INDIAN SCHOOL8. from around the roota,and aleo retain the nnor that falls and prevents it from king blown off the gronnd. In that wa we get all the ~noisturep orwihle. Kow. after wu have harvesIed tfiis rror, of wheat, we then plow perhaps 6 inches deep the next plowing time,and wp pulv<rizr that, ihesame a i we did hdore. This gruund ia tlren rrdy for 311)' rotation of crop tllat WQ wiph to put irr. The nest plowing is to tr dune 12 i ~ s h dea~pa gain. In this way we maintnin a inellow,pnl-verird seed h d a foot dec.n. which we have found will retain ttjr muidture throuch , the season. Moatof theae dry countries--Oklahoma, Dakota, and western Nebmka-have rain-fall enough during the year to raise a crop if we could distribute it through the Beason; and this method enables us to do so. TITBERCULOSIS. pr . HENRY B. WABBLBARn,a dsrko, 0kla.l The S D U ~ I oI f~ perdons sufferina from this disease dries where it falls, and rises again in-the form i f dust, to inferttlloee who inhale it. Improve the sanitary and hy 'enic conditions to leseen the prevalence of this die-awtb. All nmrus nhould be we% ventilated. lichtcd. and heated. and kent rcrunu- GOITRE. pr. SoHn S. L m l w . Standing Back, 8. Dak.1 Dr. Lindley state that after an experience of eleven y ~ r aam ong the Indians pf the %nth, less than half a dozen cases of goitre applied to hlm far treatment, wb~lme ten months among the Standing Rock Sioux Indlans he bas had 80 well-defined eases, all full-blood Indlans, and 95 per cent females; that there are 50 or 60 cases unre-corded, and that probably 5 per cent of the tribe is afflicted with the disease. Further, that there is not an agency in the United States where goitre prevail8 to the extent that it does at Standing Rock, and that nowhere in the country can a like number of people be found with an equal percentage of cases among them. After carefully looking into the matter the doctar concludes that eases have applied for treatment only where the swellin interfered with respiration. He has corresponded with a number of physicians in berent loea.litiea on the mbjeet of the cause and |