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Show 10 CO?d?dIBBIONE& OF INDIAN hFFILIBS. ton to the value of $5,000 to $9,000, and sell $5,000 or $6,000 worth of wool in St. Louis and Boston. At a few reservations the annual operations in cattle are consicler-able. Last year over $38,000 were realized at Tongue River, Mont., from the sale of increase of cattle originally supplied by the Govern-ment.. The Blackfeet in Montana, owning in the neighborhood of 16,000 head, received $160,000 from sales, or an income from the sale of stock of about $64 for each man, woman, and child on the reser-vation. FAIBS. Agricultural fairs for the Indians increase in populariQ and in educational effect in farming, stock raising, and domestic accomplish-ments. Wherever they have been held, they have given marked in-centive and have been of great assistance in the advancement of the Government's industrial policy. To an important degree, by furnisb-ing an opportunity for a large gathering in the autumn to which the Indians may look forward, they have also helped to counteract the Indians' tendency to abandon their crops in the growing season to hold protracted assemblies. Fourteen reservations had fain and in the fall of 1911 this number will very much increase. The expert farmers at the Union Agency used their influence to get Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes interested in the regular county fairs in order that they may not only exhibit their own prod-ucts but also observe what white farmers accomplish. Farm clubs were organized at Sisseton, Pda, Tongue River, and Ricou, where the Indians council among themselves, study the more simple scien-tific farming problems, and read farm and stock journals. Farm journals devoted to the interests of Indians are published by In-dians at the Cheyenne and Arapaho and the Pouca Reservations in Oklahoma. It has been customary for the Mission Indians of California, so soon as the grass is sufficient to support their horses and a little money has been accumulated by helping white rangers, to leave their homes and attend fiestas. To reduce the number of fiestas and supplant them with agricultural fairs, a plan has been devised accord'mg to which all of the reservations are grouped into three districts of four reservations each. One fiesta or fair will be held annually in the dis-tricts in rotation. , EXPERIMENT WOBg. The experiment work in agriculture in conjunction with the Bureau of Plant Industry under the cooperative agreement of 1907 between the Departments of Interior and Agriculture has been going forward at Sacaton, Ariz., with good results. fifty-five acres of the school farm were used. Experiments show that a good healthy type of |