Show THE INDIAN INDIANA AJ A N FARMER The American Indian Is b of ot that phy ph alque which makes n a i d I fanner and the wonder Is that th t e 0 not sent lent into tho the fields ere this tm f mak Cmrk making ing them go so to u i Vis Is III r essential but ninetynine those who return home from either do nothing or argo go Into form farm life lite The other one per cent become pro professional professional men Within the th past few Cew years the strides made by the Amen Ameri American can red man In farming have been re ra remarkable remarkable In the United States today toda there are arc Indians Indiana who earn their theiron own on living by b farm work Last year ear earthe they the sold their th lr farm tarm products for Cor a 11 combined f um sum r of f over oer and above the expenses of living This wo war w nearly forty fort dollars per capita which Is very good considering the fact tact that thirty per cent of them bent have haye never be before before fore Cor farmed an on acre of oC land Sonic Some of oC the Indian farmers never did n a days dats In all their life lito before Some Somo have been at work for tor five fie or nix six years earS One farmer a n Iloa living In Ok Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma lahoma raised last year ear wheat making twentysix bushels to the acre and corn sixty bushels He Re tilled the tho fields alone except In harvest time when he engaged enS a number of oC harvest hands to assist Ills from Crom last years rears crop was Ills His farm Carm Is a amodel a amodel model one OliO Originally the tho land COO acres In iii extent was set aside to him by bythe bythe bythe the Indian nc nt It lies In n a valley near the river 1101 the lie soil soli Is well watered nod anel rich In the tho edge ot of a a patch of trots trees bordering on the farm was waa erected n a nice cottage collage The rite stock sto k were fattened and every farming Implement was vas for winter This Indian who was once a n noted tighter fighter now puts In several months in each year ear on his place and works even harder than the average white farmer While one cannot ray cay caytoo too much good ROod concerning his ids farming fanning ability his moral character Is in keep keepIng keepIng keeping Ing with other Indians Sometimes when wl n ho lie can nn B rPt gel I the he ho will re remain remain remail main mail drunk for a 1 whole month Ho lie wears n a blanket in winter and attends the medicine dances ances and dog do feasts In summer So while tho the government has hall tamed tarnell him In ono one way ay It still has a 1 great deal to accomplish As AJI it Is with this farmer fanner one will also find i It with snotty many other Indians To make a II good farmer out of n a warrior requires no less leu than seven years There are arc today tOOn about Indians In the United States of which do not work ork Therefore only seven per percent percent percent cent of oC the entire Indian population on the reservation earn urn their own liv Ih living ing In excluding the Indians of the five civilized tribes This Is III quite an Im Improvement Improvement Improvement provement over oer three years ears ago a o when not three per cent were capable ble of at lak ng rig nl care of oC themselves Thero There art are today members of oC the five tribes of If Indian territory These Thue are the Cherokees Creeks Choctaws Chickasaws and Seminole Indians They The yet et retain their land In common but It will be allotted before tore another year yar These are arc called caked educated In Indians Indians and last year they the earned US 1140 0 from the sale of oC beef eC and cattle It costs COlt the government from four to toftO tonta nta million dollars every ever year to edu educate rate cats the Indiana Indians and set let them up In farming fanning The Osage Opa e richest Indians In the 1 States are contrary to general belief the rno most mOlt t Industrious They had out last year yC r sons aerts of lund land from which they the I raised railed l OOOO bu bushels rf f wheat bushels bushel of oC oats oat and bushels bushel of ot corn oom The Sioux outnumber the rs two to to one hence the value of oC their th lr products product WM waa ev even n greater than those thoI of ot the Oell list Dut the tho Sioux go o In for cattle having oj sold 1000 bead bea of cattle In one on season HUOn and m made d IOCO The Th Cherokees Cherokee are ar araUa also aUa cr great at Practical I farming li II now b befog taught In many roM I I Indian schools of et f thi tb be southwest coun roun try W n Dr sperm la In K Nw Nn w York Xu 1 it |