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Show - 36 - as ought to bo produced* For instance, 120 bushels of potatoes wore raised this ye?.r on two acres of land, while an Indian farmer>. oh exactly tho sane sort of land - no better and no worse - raised 430 buahels of potatoes on seven-- > t '•- •'•','• : ,. :'...', ' " I eighths af an acre. The difference, I was informed, was couscd • \ y. • by tha inexperience of tho School Fanner, in part, and, in part, . , " . , •,, by tha Farmer's anger over a trivial difficulty he had had with • other School emplcyjea. I talked to Superintendent Kneale abcut tiiis situation and suf.'ested that he riw ns much of his attention aa possible,: in the clrcumstancos, to the School* William H. Ross, the present Principal of the, School, mar; be a good man, but his ability as a school adrlnlstrator haa yet tc be d-ecr-onstratad, as ho took charge of the School only in September. Two of the buildings cf the -School are in fairly good condition, but the old,brick building, now usnd as a girls' dormitory, is in a Sadly dilapidated r.tnto. It roaily is „ ' A.yAO dangarous.- y By all means it should be ropclrod or a new "' 0 ••'. ' p .o 00' - P •'"> building erected in it's place. I am presenting herewith a photograph, whioh includes several of the School buildings• ', ' t ' , Through conversations 1 Isad with Principal Foss and the Teachers, I lsarnad that the pupils, , generally, are bright, ,, i alert and interested in thoir work* Thfi oldor ones ore required to do a certain amount of vocational work about tho |