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Show BEPORT OR THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 7 year. The largest area cultivated by any one Indian is 200 acres. Oats, potatoes, flax, wheat, and corn are the principal crops grown. The market is good. An elevator is now being constmcted at Poplar to handle the grain harvested in this vicinity. About 75 per cent of the male adult Indians on this reservation raise stock, ranging from 5 to 100 head each. They have a few more cattle than horses, aggregating about 9,000 head. On the Sisseton Reservation there are about 220 families engaged in farming, an increase of 25 per cent over the number farming last year. There are about 17,325 acres under cultivation, the best Indian farmers cultivating from 80 to 390 acres. Many of their farms are in excellent condition. Nearly all the Indian farmers have a few head of cattle; during the last two years eight Indians began raising horses. Two hundred and seventy families have distributed among them about 1,300 head of cattle and 2,500 head of horses; the number of horses on the reservation has increased about 50 per cent, and of cattle about 25 per cent over the previous two years. The Nez Perce Reservation, in Idaho, has 128,000 acres of allotted land under cultivation. Considerable interest has been manifested by the Indians in the planting of fruit trees and plants. One Indian procured from the superintendent 150 fruit trees and planted all of them in good shape. Marketing facilities are excellent. On the Yakiia Reservation, in Washington, there are 60,000 acres under cultivation. Some white lessees of the reservation have estab-lished what might properly be called "model farms," and the exam-ple set by them is having a noticeable effect upon the Indians. They . are imbibing the progressive spirit, and are making rapid advance-ment. At the Winnebago Agency wonderful progress has been made. Last year the Winnebagos cultivated only about 3,000 acres of allot-ted land and it was done rather indifferently. During the present year they have under cultivation more than 8,000 acres, mostly planted in corn, and it is reported to be fully as well cared for as the crop of the average white man. About 75 per cent of the able-bodied adults on this reservation are engaged in farming. Thirty-six of them are farming during the present season for practically the first time. The largest farm cultivated by a single Winnebago Indian contains 200 acres, but many members of the tribe care for farms of 80 or more acres Complaint of the prevalence of glanders upon the Indian reserva-tions of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and Wyoming was made during the spring of this y~!ar. The state authorities claimed that the disease was being spread by the sale and shipment of Indian horses. The Bureau of Animal Industry, upon request, agreed to make a thorough inspection of all Indian horses in |