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Show COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 35 ous parts of the State in farming, poultry and stock raising, dairying, and beekeeping, and a general discussion is engaged in by those present. A corn contest was held at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian fair, in which the best farmers under the Cheyenne and Arapaho, Can-tonment, Seger, and Red Moon Schools participated. Prizes were given for the best yield obtained at each reservation, and then the various reservations entered into a competition. TESTING AND DEMONSTRATION WORK. During the year experimentation in agriculture was carried on at the Bishop, Colorado River, Fort McDermitt, Kaibab, Blackfeet, Nevada, Pala, Pima, San Juan, Shivwits, Uintah, Walker River, Zuni, Leupp, and Martinez Reservations. The testing and demonstration farm at Sacaton, Ariz., which was started under the cooperative agreement of 1907 between the Depart-ments of the Interior and Agriculture, was continued. The benefits being derived from this farm can not be overestimated. Many useful plants are being developed, and will in time not only benefit the Tndians on the Pima Reservation, but also all that section of the country where like conditions prevail. Already the superintendents in charge of the Phoenix School, and the San Carlos, San Xavier, and Camp McDowell Reservations are taking advantage of discov-eries made at the Sacaton farm. The superintendent at San Carlos procured from the farm a variety of seeds consisting of Egyptian cotton, sorghum, milo, maize, Bermuda onions, two varieties of corn, grapes, dates, pecans, figs, and pomegranates for testing on the school farm. The superintendent at San Xavier procured some sorghum seed for testing in his locality. He is also issuing to his Indians cut-tings from pomegranates, pear, peach, apricot, apple, and hard-wood trees, and grapes. Several progressive Indians on the Camp McDowell Reservation have taken up the culture of Egyptian cotton. Nineteen bales of cotton were raised on the testing and demonstra-tion farm at Sacaton, weighing, after ginning, 9,459 pounds, which was sold to the Clark Thread Co., of Newark, N. J. Seventeen bales, weighing 8,397 pounds, brought 208 cents per pound, and 2 bales, weighing 1,062 pounds, brought 208 cents per pound, a total of $1,969.25. A weighing charge of 5 cents per bale, or a total of 95 cents, accrued against the shipment, making the net proceeds $1,968.30. The Indians raised 5 bales, weighing 2,588 pounds, which was sold to the same company for 208 cents per pound. The weighing charges on this shipment amounted to 25 cents, and the net receipts were $540. Two thousand eight hundred pounds of cotton seed were produced. Six thousand pounds belonging to the Indians and 14,350 pounds belonging to the Government farm were sold at 3 |