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[[strikethrough]] men [[/strikethrough]] Indians living in it tracks without anything but the surplus of the year before with which to meet the future.  

[[strikethrough]] One [[/strikethrough]] [[?Labrodor]] man raised [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]] over 800 bushels of potatoes of excellent quality beside large crops of corn & wheat, & sold these at a good price.  It is placing the corn crop at a loss trying to state it at 250,000 bus.  Which over 175,000 veg. Each year men and is working & the crop steadily increase in quantity & quality.

I mention these details, [[strikethrough]] taken at random among the progressive men [[/strikethrough]] as the picture of [[strikethrough]] the people in their strengths [[/strikethrough]] the efforts of the people to [[?succeed]] is needful is judging what is best [[strikethrough]] be [[?]] for them. [[/strikethrough]] to do to [[?]] or their arrangement. 

The men who work are those who [[strikethrough]] do [[/strikethrough]] are not apt to hover about the Agency.  They prefer to struggle rather than bed for help, and by their keeping aloof [[strikethrough]] from the sight of [[/strikethrough]] the officials sometimes [[strikethrough]] render [[/strikethrough]] find it difficult [[strikethrough]] for them [[/strikethrough]] to make a just estimate of [[strikethrough]] their [[/strikethrough]] advancement [[strikethrough]] to be made [[/strikethrough]] among the people.

The [[strikethrough]] advance [[/strikethrough]] progress mark [[strikethrough]] by the people [[/strikethrough]] is [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] marked, and during the past year the thought of the people has been [[strikethrough]] greatly [[/strikethrough]] considerably awakened.  Thos who had been in anxiety and discouragement as to the tenure of their land have now

[[marginalia]]  Nearly every farmer [[strikethrough]] owns [[/strikethrough]] has his wagon & [[strikethrough]] work horses [[/strikethrough]]  many have bought plows, & various machines, with their earnings &c.  All these articles are cared for, being housed in sheds built for the purpose. [[/marginalia]]