Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior: For the Year 1886 The best. Possible use has been made of this unfavorable division of the land attached to the institution. The arable land was placed in corn, oats, potatoes, and millet, with a vegetable garden of 12 acres for the cultivation of all vegetables suitable to this climate, for which purpose also a series of a dozen three-sash hot-beds were pro vided. For result of this industry I respectfully refer to statistical report herewith attached. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.