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[[strikethrough]] hardly need [[/strikethrough]]  Few need therefore to be taught the rudiments of farming, but they do need to learn how to economise time & labor, & get the best results from their work.  This [[strikethrough]] can [[/strikethrough]] again must be mainly acquired by experience - altho. as I have said example and friendly advice & suggestions would be helpful.  I speak thus positively about the people because I have been on nearly every farm on the reservation, and know in a general way & in a many instances in a particular way just how the people are [[strikethrough]] pro [[/strikethrough]] situated.  If white men owning their farms were scattered throughout the length & breadth of the reservation, it would be a very great benefit to the people, [[strikethrough]] by [[/strikethrough]] teaching them much by observation, but it is impossible that this [[strikethrough]] to do that. [[/strikethrough]] could come about.  Thrifty farmers are seldom found on leased land at the West, land is too cheap & plenty as yet to make this necessary therefore [[strikethrough]] and even [[/strikethrough]] if farms were leased to white men the probabilities an the [[?class]] would be a poor one.  Setting that probable fact aside, [[strikethrough]] what are the [[/strikethrough]] we turn to the kind & [[?eality]] of the land proposed to be leased.  

[[strikethrough]]  The land lying in township 24 range 7 and 8, and township 25 range 6.  These are the best farming lands possessed by the Omahas, and the allotments taken therein are in the main held by the best fo most industrious part of the community.  The plan is to lease [[/strikethrough]]