With the proper encouragement these Indians will soon all, or nearly all, be established in homes of their own and be cultivating the soil. May. Good wheat can be grown here if properly put in, and that in the fall. Oats are more certain. Some of the finest fields of oats are now being harvested that I have ever seen. Some lots will yield from 50 to 60 bushels per acre.
Many fields are light, owing to the slack manner of putting in.
There are a great many small gardens, but poorly cultivated. We hope to overcome much of this. I have carefully read the last annual report of my predecessor, and have carefully studied the situation, and I really cannot give so flattering a report as his. It is true the season has been against us, and many fields now sown in grain are very foul and need to be summer-fallowed. There is an abundance of good land here, and when rotation in crops is taught them we will be able to enlarge the figures.