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Show carpentering, blacksmithing, painting, and laetaring, and some may be called to teach or preach, or practice law,? medPcine, but of those who own land many more can make a comfortuhle b m g on farm or ranch than mll succeed at a trade or in a profession. 2. A laree, wel l -eani~~esdch ool of thin kind. in an nnricnltnral reeion. can teach farming and the kindred industries more thorooghlfand economi~llythsu other nrhools. Whle nearly all the large schools have fanos, they do nod make farming tho important fenture. Sorno are not in ana&~icoltnrarlu gion: soule have unproductive tioil: and fow, it any, have n sufficient quantity of tillable i.9""d-r"n ". c'hilocco, with its 8,GW acres of rhoica Innd, should he the great agricultural echool. Lt is centrally located in the rich farming remon of Oklahoma, where the couclirioun are similar to those surrounding the Indians of a larrre area. There are ebout80,000 ind~ansr,x clusive of the Five Tribes, within a radio8 of 600miles. Beingon the border between the Nortii and the South, and near to the uncertain houndarv line of the semiarid redona. thr rroos and th-o~ -m~ ethod* of rarinlr for them ~ a h a k eof the nature of all'of these area; ~ h e a its harvested withYboth hindof and header: corn i.r planted with check rowor nud lidtcr. W e can ram tlleSontheru cropso€cottonandcnstorhean: tho Northernproducte of flax, broom con), and oats: corn and clover for the E.ist: an11 alfalfa. barlev. mlllot. and sor-ghum for the Wost; peaches, npples,grapes.nnd cherries for evGjbody.and cnrtlo aud wheat for the world. This acbool woald d i h r from tho agricultnral college in incroasine the nractical aud li-mi tiun thethenretic;rl tanehinr. Tho h o v ~w onld ~ ~ ~ ~~~~ .--. ~ ,-.. ~ learn to do-by d&i.;nder the direGiou of a sufficient nuzber of Gmuetent educated farmers to'insure thorough work. PRACTICMAELT HODSIN INDIAENDU CATION. LS. M. McCow~ss, uperintendent Phoenix Schwl. N. Mea.] |