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Show INDIANS IN ARIZONA ARE GROWING COTTON WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. The Pima Indians, In Arizona, are "coming back" Insofar as their cultivation of cotton is concerned Through the cooperation co-operation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the dopartment of agriculture, agri-culture, experiments In cotton-growing have boon conducted on tho reservation res-ervation for about three years. These experiments hao been mado on a ten-acre tract, and, after many oxpori-ments oxpori-ments according to Assistant Commis-slonor Commis-slonor Abbott, of the Bureau of Indian In-dian affuirs, a cotton about throe grades higher than any other now grown In the cotton belt has been pioduced. i Thp Indians have taken up n8 cultivation and, up to the present t; ' time. sas Mr. Abbott, about fiftv U acres are under cultivation. " f k The Indians cultivated cotton somo ; ;! 75 years ago. it is said, but for somo '': ' reason stopped it. This evidence Is . ft given by an old Indian squaw, who, ? i When the agent of the department of ' ;J i agriculture was sent about to show :, t her how to pick cotton, said thnt ho ' : ft ueed not show her, a3 she had picked " I It many years ago. before tho white .' man came along to take the Indian :? lands. k i |