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Show 1 126 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OX INDIAN BFFAIRS. 1 . I periods of three months. The girls perform work usually falling upon a farmer's wife and daughters,, such as general housework, cookmg, butter making, etc.; they also have the care of a small poultry yard, a fow pigs, and a kitchen garden. The boys are re-quired to do actual farm work, including care of dairy herd, cattle, hogs, and horses. The products of the farm supply a snbstautiaI part of the school subsistence. Many pupils attending this school are placed in positions finan-cially and educationally profitable. They earn considerable money, two-thirds of which is placed in a savings bank to their credit, and - the remainder given to them for incidental expenses. Tlie boys work in orange and lemon groves, fruit-packing houses, and on ranches, earning from $1 to $2 per day, according to their ability and ambi-tion. The girls find ready employment in white families at from $25 to $30 per month, where they learn home making; and in view of this a larger number should receive training at the school in cook-ing, butter making, and poultry raising, and a more.?xtensive equip-ment is required in the cooking department. The girls also receive instruction in lace making and drawn work, and find profitable em-ployment after leaving school, as such work usually commands ready oola Practical demonstrative work was a feature of the commencement exercises. COLORADO. There are 807 Southern Ute Indians in Colorado. the onlv tribe in the State. h few of these Indians hnve sn~nllp atches of 1&1d under cultivation, and a Inore extensive system of irrigation and additional farming i~l~plcrncnwtso uld be of assistance. The Catholics and I'res-byteria& maintain churches for these Indians. Grand Julaediolz (wnreservation) school.-About 240 pupils attend the Grand Junction School, coming from the Southern Ute Reserva-tion in the southwestern part of Colorado and from reserves in adja-cent States and Territories. Six new buildings have been erected within the last year or two, and the plant is in good condition. Facilities for industrial training are limited. The school farm contains 178 acres, but the soil is not well adapted to agricultural purposes, owing to the excessive amount of alka!i. The dairy herd, composed of Holstein and Durham stock, furnished a fair suppIy of milk; but in order to have adequate pasturage and to make the land under cultivation yield better results, a drainage system should be supplied and an extra effort made to get rid of the alkali. The class-room teachers, none of whom were there on my previous visit, were urged to follow the outl~nesin your 1905 report and adapt the instruction to ,meet local needs. The advisability of giving instruction in hort~cu!ture was polnted out to the teaching corps, in order to equip pup~lsf or employment on the f r u ~ tfa rms in the surrounding country. This is an advantageous po~ntto carry.on the outing system, and I was informed that 50 boys and 20 grls belonging to this school have saved between $3,000 and $4,000 in the last year or two. There is.a stead demand at good wages for the services of both boys and erls, an 2' the trainmg they receive in household duties, on ranches, and in beet fields proves of greatex benefit than years spent in school. |
