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Show I suceassful and remunerative crop in that section of the country. This bean is their creation and. should be cltlled +,he 'L Z'apago.bean." I STOCK RAISINa. The utilization of the ndural resources of the various hdian res-ervations for the bendt of the Indians has been extended during the last year by the purchase of tribal herds and the improvement and development of the live-stock interests of the individual Indians. The success met with in handling the tribal herds is largely due to - the provision which was made to shelter and feed the animals during the winter mouths. The loss in the Crow tribal herd of about 7,000 heifers and 2,000 steers was less than 1 per cent during the winter of 1914-15. There were appmximately 3,000 calves belonging to this herd branded at the spring round-up, and. it is probable that the total wmber of calves produced for the first year this herd was on the range will be nearly 4,000 head. I In October, 1914, 3,800 ewes and 199 rams were placed on the range in the-southern addition to the Jicarilla Reservation. This flock now comprises a total of 6,796 rams, ewes, and lambs. The clip of wool from this flock, amounting to 16,660 pounds, was sold, deliv-ered at the agency, for $3,581.90. A tribal herd of 1,000 heifers and 42 bulls has also been placed on this reservation. The number of tribal herds on the various Indian reservations w m in-d by the purchase of cattle as follows: For Blackfeet h r v a t i o n , 60 bulls, 1,800 heifers; for Cheyenne River Rwerva-tion, 80,bulls, 1,800 heifers; for FOI$ Apache Beservation, 50 bulls; for Fort Belknap Reservation, 60 bulls, 1,800 heifers; for Jicarilla Reservation, 42 bulls, 100 heifers; for Klamath Reservation, 40 buils; for Mescalero Reservation, 68 bulls, 1,200 heifers; for Moqui Reservation, 10 bulls; for Rosebud Reservation, 50 bulls, 300 heifers; for San Carlos Reservation, 80 bulls, 972 heifers; for Standing Rock Reservation, 100 bulk, 1,800 heifers; for qongue River Reemvation, 25 bulls, 500 heifers; for Ute Mountain Reservation, 75 bulls, 1,500 heifers; for Walker River Reservation, 20 bulls, 500 heifers; for Warm Springs Reservation, 30 bulls, 533 heifers; for Western Sho-shone Reservation, 100 heifers; and for the Walapai Reservation, 510 cows and 20 bulls. A large number of heifers were purchased for the Cheyenne River, Colville, Rosebud, Standing Rook, and Warm Springs Reservations, and will be sold to individual Indians under , the reimbursable plan. A considerable amount of stock was during the year1914-15 dii-tributed to individual Indians, and it is our purpose to extmd this procedure as rapidly as good administration'jusk5es. Indian stock has been so successfully managed since the policy of increasing stock raising among the Indians was inaugurated some two years |