“Let the exhibits emphasize in an impressive manner the difference between inferior and high-grade agricultural products, and let them demonstrate in no uncertain way that greater profit results from raising the best and the most of everything produced on the farm or ranch. Encourage the Indian to take the progressive view. This should not be difficult where he has before him a clear object lesson such as is emphasized by placing his horses, cattle and sheep, his corn, oats, wheat, alfalfa and forage on exhibition in legitimate rivalry with those of his neighbor at the Indian fair.
NAVAHO SUMMER HOGAN
From G. W. James’ “Indian Blankets and their Makers”
“The improvement of stock should be aggressively advocated and impressed upon the mind of every Indian farmer and stock-raiser. He should be brought to understand that the thousands of well-bred bulls, stallions and rams were purchased during the last few months to do away with the evils of lack of sufficient and well-bred male stock and the inbreeding almost universal in the past. He should understand that in order to secure the best results the male stock must not only be improved but that the old and worse than useless male animals which have heretofore been so destructive to the Indian’s success as a stock-raiser must be disposed of.”
The Carlisle school farms this summer were quite prosperous, as were farms at all the educational centers. The Carlisle Arrow of September 4th, says:—
The First Farm
“The forty-eight cows and the six head of young cattle are in fine condition, as are also 70 hogs, averaging 125 pounds; 30 shoats, averaging 30 pounds; 22 small pigs, and 12 brood sows.
“The average amount of milk produced during the summer months was eighty gallons a day, and butter, eighty pounds a week.
“There is material for hundreds of tons of ensilage.”