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Show COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 31 perintendents. It is believed that the changes made in the regula- - tions will materially assist in inducing the Indians to engage in farm-ing and stock-raising pursuits. ERADICATIO- N OB STOCK DISEASE. Congress has appropriated $100,000 for supprassing contagious diseases which have been prevalent among the live stock of the In-dTans. This will permit adequate measures for eradicating these dis-eages. The stamping out of dourine is carried on in cooperation with representatives of the Bureau df Animal Industry. It will practi-rally be completed on Montana and North and South Dakota Reser-vations this year. Limited funds have prevented as successful re-milts on the reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. The cooperation of representatives of the Bureau of Animal In-dustry in the inspection of the stock of the schools, agencies, and indi-vidual Indians in purchases made for them, and eradicating con-tagious diseases has been of valuable assistance. EXPERIMENTATION. The experimental farms already in operation at Shoshone, Sah - Juan, Malki, and other places mere continued during the yearwith ' good qesults. In general, more emphasis has been placed upon dem-onstration work on &he farms of the Indians themselves, under the conditions which they must meet'in their actual farm work; in other words, the demonstration material consists of the Indian's growing crops, on his own land, in which he naturally takes more interest. This plan is in l i e with the most adranced thought of up-to-date agricultural experts and teachers. SAOATON FARM. The experimental farm conducted at sacaton, on.the P h a Reser- ' vation in Arizona, in cooperation with the Bureau. of Plant Indus-try of the United States Department of Agriculture, was operated ' . during the year on the same basis as formerly, except that plans have been formulated and partially put into effect for its enlargement. This will bring it to the full measure of its usefulness along experi-mental lines. A laboratory building compl&ely equipped was erected during the year for the benefit of the experts on duty &tt he farm, which is meeting requirements and is contributing materially tp the successful prosecution of the work at this station. COOPERATIVE EXTENSION WOBE A significant deveropment of the year was the completion of defi-nite arrangements for cooperative extension work with the Federal and Sate agricultural departments under the provisions of the |
