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Show EEPOET OF THE SUPERINTENDENT. OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. 379 They should be taught to cook for small families and with hut few utensils,.and to wash by hand in tube and with boards, and to iron with flatnons heated by stoves. In addition to the strictly industrial and agricultural features in nearly all of the larger schools opportunities are given to learn and become proficient in many arts and industries whic will fit them for various suitable occupations. gupils to There is no denominational reli ious training in any of the schools. exercises. Ministers of all denominations adf r esg the puplls and conduct religious TRANSFER OF PUPILS FROM LOWER TO HIQHER SCEOOL8. In previous reports reference has been made to the importance of transferring pup~lsf rom the schools which they have outgrown to more advanced schools, and the lack of a pro1 e r system in this regard has been one of the obstacles to sucoess in t e Indian school service. Much of the difficultv in securing such transfers has arisen from the oppo~ition of the yu;ents. Othrr causes conibined have coutributcd to the lack of s uwc s~w hich has heretofore sttcndrd and to dome cxtrnt still attends the working of the system. There has been almost excess-ive eagerness on the part of the non,reservation boarding schools 40 secure pupila in order to keep u t h e r r e ~ r odf. attendance, and thls work of the higher schools. has sometires led to the transP e r of puplls entlrely unfitted for the It is gratifying, however, to be able to reS o rt that during the past year conditions have 80 materially improve that a large number of the upils of the day schools have been fitted for and transferred to the gigher schools. Although analogous to the system of promotion from one grade to another in use in the publ~ca chools.qf the country, . it in, from the nature of the circumstances and con&tlons attend~ng Indian school life, much more elastic, and there is no fixed rule as to the grade which must be attended b2 ' a student before he or she can be admltted to the higher school. T e age of the pupil is considered,. and if he is old enough to go to the boarding school little attention is paid to the grade whch he had reached in the day school. Much remains to be done in the way of systematizing and making uniform the existing methods of transfer; but it can be said that prac-tically every child whose parents' consent can be obtained is offered a chance for transfer to a nonreservation school. ffiH00L GARDENS. Indian bo s and girls have manifested the greatest interest in school gardens, an $ the order to go to the fields is heartily welcomed. The teacher shows how each kind of seed should be planted. Cabbage and tomato plants are frequent1 raised in hotbeds, or window boxes, for early trans lantin The reyation of soil and moisture to plant growth lainex, and %e phenomena of nature observed in these gardens. ?n,"xntally lessons in number, form co!or, and English are presented. The children learn the value of piowmg, sa a ding, and fertilizing. School gardens have been successfully con ucted at a great many schools, and the reports of superintendents and teachers show that |