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4. the farm without any additional expense. I can do no farming in the bottom without water and it would be useless to attempt. I have, however, enclosed about 2 acres above-ground on the mesa and have covered this with fertilizers and bottom soil to the depth of 16 inches. I have laid pipes to their patch from our present water tanks and have now growing the finest kind of lettuce, radish, beets, and turnips. As fast as these are used I am putting in potatoes. In this manner, I will enclose another piece of ground and plant it to fruits, grapes, etc. This is crude farming to an Illinois boy, but it pays. I think inasmuch as it keeps before the Indians youth the value of labor; that nothing should stand in the way of attaining certain objects and it provides something for the boys to do.
