The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-20
INDIAN SCHOOL
Big INSTITUTION
HARVESTED GOOD CROPS THIS
YEAR--INDIAN PUPILS HAVE
eARNERED THIS YEARS GRAIN
AND NOW WAIT THREsHING
MACHINE.

Wahpeton Globe: Very few people
realize the sort of an institution we
have here in the Government Indian
Agricultural school. A representative
of The Globe-Gazette was taken out
to the school few days since by
Superintendent Randolph to inspect
the grounds and buildings and was
quite surprised at the extent of the
farming operations carried on there
and also at the extent Of the improve
ments on grounds and buildings that
have been made this year.
The government owns forty acres
Of land on the east side OF the Chica-
go, Milwaukee track, on which the
buildings are located and 140 acres on
the west side Of the railroad. All this
land is worked and cared for by the
pupils Of the school, the only paid
employee connected with the farm or
farm buildings being the Farmer" as
he is called, who has charge Of the
farming operations.
There are twenty-six head of cat
tie now on the farm, of which thir-
teen are rnilch COWS, now milking.
Seven head Of horses and number
of pigs and chickens are also quar-
tered on the farm. Most of the cat
tie are Guernseys and they are fine
animals.
A portion of tile east forty acres is
used for gardens and each of the
seventy-five pupils who have remain
ed at the school during the summer,
has his or her own garden patch.
! Besides these there are large patch
es of peas, beans, tomatoes, pc satoes.
etc, etc, A willow. hedge has been
planted along the north side of the
| land and a numlser- OF fruit trees
and shrubs have been planted this
year. One object In conducting the
farm 10 to teach the pupils practical
farming and the work is carried on
as near like it is on an ordinary farm
as possible. The best known meth
DDS of cultivation and tdiversification
1 have been adopted however. IT
might be interesting to note here that
the pupils take an interest in the
farm work and perhaps take to this
\ sort of work better than any other.
The lao acres OF land west OF the
track Is divided into fields of oats.
wheat, barley, corn, potatoes and gard
en- truck. Fifteen acres are in corn
and seven in potatoes The small
grain has all been harvested and
stacked near the buildings by the pu-
pills OF the school. The crops are all
| good and the work has been very well
done.
Several new buildings have been
| erected on the school grounds this
| year and the list Of buildings now in
cludes two dormitories, mess hall,
superintendent's residence, employees
residence, schoolhouse, engine house
and laundry, warehouse, shops, barn,
machine house, Ice house, four coal
and wood sheds, granary, corn crib
and outside cellar. The coal and
wood sheds, ice house, machine house
1 and the granary were all built this
year and a silo is now being built
| near the barn, into which 100 tons of
silage will be stored for winter feed.
| The school has its own we'll and water
| system and a central heating plant
/ Is 10 be installed before cold weather.
Sixteen hundred feet OF cement walks
have been laid this summer and Sup
| er!ntendent Randolph Is now prepar-
ing the ground for the planting OF
trees next season. The grounds are,
as fast as possible, to be made beau
| tiful and attractive. The grounds
and buildings are lighted by cleo
trictly from the city plant.
During the summer the school
buildings have been thoroughly over
hauled and repaired and the dormi-
tories have been recalcimined to make
| them neat and attractive.
! About 100 pupils attended the school
last winter and about seventy-fiv
have remained here this summer AS
we said before, all the farm work y
done by the pupils. The buildings are
kept clean by them, the cooking and
sewing and in fact all homework Is
done by the girls, that being a part of
their course of construction. To sup
ervise all this work and superintend
! the school proper requires constant
attention and Superintendent Ran
dolph and his assistants are kept
pretty busy from one years end to
another