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Show aa COMMISSI~NEO~F INDIAN AFFAIRS. Tucson, with a yield of 51.37 bushels of shelled corn on a measured acre, grading 94.70 per cent, which sold for $82.35. The cost of production was $16.95, making a net profit of $65.40. Victor Bail, the winner, will t&e a two-years' course at the Phoenix Indian School in order to fit himself for the two-years' agricultural course at the State university. The sekond prize in this contest, consisting of a Dnroc Jersey pig, was also won by an Indian boy named Alonzo Flores. About 250 farmers are employed to instruct the Indians and supervise their agricultural york, the district plan inaugurated sev-eral years ago being still further developed with very successful results. It involves the division of each reservation into districts, in each of which a farmer is located so that he may be near the Indians. Advantage is taken of every available facility with the view of maintaining the interest of the Indians in falrming, most of whom have perhaps not yet reached that state of development charac-terized by fixity of purpose, and hence require constant advice, en-couragement. and supervision. The second problem in promoting agricultural work among the Indians is an administrative one and has to do with furnishing the necessary equipment, such as teams, implements, harness, etc., for this purpose, which are usually provided by three methods--(1) pur-chase from individual trust funds when available; (2) issue in re-turn for labor; or (3) purchase nnder the reimbursable regulations of October 6, 1914, to be paid for without interest in small pay-ments extending over a period of years. SCHOOL FABMS. With the view of developing school farms to the extent of their possibilitiesas object lessons for the Indians and in the the produc-tion of vegetables and forage for the schools, the following circular was sent out by me on August 10,1914: To all superintmdmtu: - I am not sansfied that we are making me greatest use of our school farms. They usually consist of large tract; of fertile land capable of raising every crop that the climate in which the school is located will permit. In some cases these farms are well irrigated. In every ease, the schaols have been or can be furnished with all the equip-ment necessary to till their farms to the fullest extent, and they can be furnished with stock with which to make a snbstantial showing in stock raising. The agricultural trnining of the boy pupils in our schools furnishes ample opportunity for intensive farming. If this training is to be of real value and be effective in accomplishing its purpose, the farming operations should be financially successful and at the same time conducted in accordance with modern methcil3. |