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Show Ci':irs is i.uiiis" The American Indians, according to Prof. Berry. of the University of Missouri, were "the greatest agncuiuirai geniuses gen-iuses in all history." That statement; .will requii a great deal of proof and clarification. Are rut our moJerri white farmers, with their irrigation, their') fertilization, their adaption of crops to the soil, and so oA more proficient at their job than those underprivileged savages? Undoubtedly, yes. In those respect our white m'en are the best farmers ever known. It nfjist have been in the matter of labor saving that the Red Men were superior. Thev knew a thing or two about that : White men have machinery, of which they are justifiably proud, but machinery, machin-ery, we admit, does only a part of the farm, work that must be' done. The Red Men, not so easily satisfied with imperfection, imper-fection, had women who did all of it. o |