Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-04-19
Supt. Kitch Urges Big
Crop On Reservation

operative movement Ill INDUSTRIAL
work such as We should have be-
tween our Indians and industrial
employees that we will be a credit
to our reservation, our states, and
our country. l only ask that each
and every able bodied Indian, and
every leesee, homesteader, or pur-
chaser Of land now residing on this
reservation to put forth their
united, combined and energetic ef-
forts in the cultivation of our soil
so that we may in the position of
producers contribute in certain
measure to the support of our
country. have been endeavoring
by personal meetings to- further
their interest, but am hoping that
through the medium Of your paper
to reach those whom | have been
unable to discuss the matter with
personally. I feel assured that we
have the physical means and the
soil to produce as large crop as in
any section of the United States,
and l believe that with full realiza-
ton of the conditions which are at
present faced by our country that
our people both white and Indian
will heartily cooperate in every way
in fulfilling the confidence and trust
placed in US by our president and
Congress. They have called for us
and we must answer. We must,
however, not forget that with the
completion Of our planting and
farming, and that although
we may be assured by industry and
enterprise Of large crop that our
work is not done.
We must also remember that our
cattle industry is also a very i'm
portant factor in the feeding of the
nation and every effort must be
made in the increase of our herds
and conservation of food producing
animals. You should, in connec-
ton with your farm work, take the
best of care of your live stock; see
that they are properly fed and
watered, and arrange in the plant
ing of your crops to have sufficient
food for your livestock.
i Hay is an essential food for cattle
and there is no portion Of the
county where it is found in more
abundance than on this reservation.
You should prepare, upon the COM
pletion of your planting, to put up
every ounce of hay available. Plan
to put up sufficient for your own
livestock (three tons per head or
better, but do not stop at that but
bend every effort to get up as much
as possible for storage and sale pur-
poses.
We are now engaged in an active
campaign for the eradication of
dourine and with the assistance of
the veterinarians detailed here from
the Bureau of Animal Industry,
hope to bring this work to- success
full conclusion this year. This can
only be done by hearty co-opera-
ton of both white settlers and In
dams, as we must know that a stall
lion or mare afflicted with this
scourge can destroy the efficiency
of our present campaign. 1 hope
by the total destruction Of this dis
ease on this reservation that the In
dams may attain the highest degree
Of efficiency in the animal industry
, and will be able to furnish their
quota of horses for industrial and
army purposes.
We must remember that in great
work of combined forces of the en-
tire country we must not only at
tempt to serve our own needs but
must use every effort to assist others
and by so doing in substantial
way we are assured of financial
gain to ourselves.
1t is the earnest wish of Presi-
dent Wilson, the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs and myself, that
every Indian and white man give
his entire attention to his farming