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Show 420 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. In this age of competition impress that careful rather than extensive farming pays. Every boy should be taught to raise crops of wheat, corn, cotton, sorghnm, or whatever grows best in the climate where he is located. Give thefollowing : The relation of soil moisture to plant growth. The effect of mil cultivation, deep and shallow. The right quantity of seed to plant to the acre. The best way to fertilize the ground. Harvesting and marketing of the crop. The herding of cattle, where this is an industry. The care and management of swine, poultry, sheep (where the conditions are favor~a. ble). csttle. and horses. The ~rincinlesof stook feeding- and breedinn. d i s endes. el.'. The management of a garden, raisinr such vegetable* and small fruits as the soil. dtmate, andgelleral conditions will justify. Tho r.rouacatiou of olantz, avetlr. cnttinc% kzaftinn. otc. Gr,\;r~o(:~ &~etal,lc~a'oi;.dl;ies,r; the rare < f, hoth~l st,r ansplanting, fertilizing. Tho reneral cure of AZI orrharrl: pr>p:ig:~tion: planting, prnulng, apraylng, etv. The narore. close.. rind ~~reveutioofn ".ant d18~.;lse.i. Iniurtous iisects, their Gature, methods of destroying plants: insect remedies The proper use of tools and their card aft6.r uqit~g.. - 31\inn;l~.*rurncta, re. and brev<lingo f dairy atock. lloth b ~ s i*in d eirls should I,? tnonht alairv bacterioloc~:t he com~o~i t ioaun d osre of milk andloream; ripening t%e oream; bntter mzxe from ckam that is unripened. Teach also. Churning, working, and. packing butter. Cheem making. The care of dairy apparatus: the separator (lf one is used), churn, butter paddles, cream pots, milk nans. nails. and orooks. = ~ r ~ i&t i o n - lm~n nr arts of the country farming can he carried on only by means01 irrigation, a"dd;t ir nnpevted that fnrrnors af schools where the l,npiis 36 etttndancc are fs.01~ arid regions nnd from rrsarvations where irrigation is nee. esaarv wlll hare u larre irrinalrd ncreaxe nuder cultivation. that the i,ouils may havemuch experienc<in themanagemikt of irrigating ditches and in ihe'generil |
