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Show \ 128 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. I farmed by Indians. Both Catholic and Protestant missionariias are at work among the Oklahoma Indians. Chilocco (nonmservation) SchooL-The pupils attending this , school are drawn from reservations in the locahty and from many western and northern tribes. The school farm contains 8,640 acres of land and agricultural instruction holds front rank in the industrial course. In addition to practical instruction received in cultivating the farm crops pupils are required to make original investigations and experiments. For example,.Indian corn was rocwed from arid regions of New Mexico and Aruona and pupils H om those sections conduced experiments with a view to inereasin the yield without destroymg the drought-resisting qualities. Sirni f ar experiments and investigations were made with grains indigenous to other localities from which pupils are drawn. Training is also given in dairying and poultry raisin A large orchar3 supplies the school table with nantities of peaches, apples> cherries, etk., the growing and care 01 which fur-nish practical instruction in horticulture. Truck gardening is ex-tensively carried on, the younger pupils being assigned individua1 plats. This gives them a sense of personal responsibility and an ambition to perform their work well, and shows them what can be grown on a small piece of land when properly cultivated. The domestic course aims to give the girls practical drilling in cooking, sewing, and general housework,, and the industrial to equip the boys to earn a living by workin their allotments. The class-room work was more or ess retarded by the burning of the main school buildin . f This school has a Ta rge and well-equipped printing o5w and 2,000 copies of my report for 1907 were prlnted, illustrated, and bound by the printinK staff, composed of Indian boys. The work was of such a creditah e nature as to meet your commendation. \ OREGON. The Indians on the five reservations in Ore pn are fairly prosper-ous. On the Klamath Reservation, which is a $ apted to stock raismg the census last year gave 1,061 Indians, and they raised 2,700 head o$ horses, 3,600 cattle, 2,000 dometsic fowls, 600 hogs and 70 mules. The Indians take kindly to day schools for their children, and last year two boarding schools were abolished (the Grande Ronde and the Yainax schools) and day schools established in their stead. Both Protestant and Catholic missions are conducted on the different reser-vations in the State. There are 448 Indians on the Siletz Reservation, and very few-the physically disabled-receive any gratuitous support from the Government. These Indians have been allotted land in severalty and in civilization are, perhaps, above the average. Many of them live in good houses and a number of the homes are neat and sanitary. Nearly all of them speak English and wear citizens' clothes. They support themselves by cultivating their allotments and by workin for the neighboring white farmers who have purchased inherite f Indian land. I Sdm (nonresmation) School.-The Salem School, at Chemawa, is the largest in the Northwest. Much care and work have been |