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two fields being approached by a road running N. E. across the Lots 2 & 1. to "the boom."  The northern portion of the lots is rocky, the soil is all upon the Southern half.  From the time of the appropriation of this old mission site by the Agency under Hutchens, until the removal of the Agency to Ft. Lapwai, under Chas. E. Monteith both these Lots, that is the agricultural part to the south, have been under cultivation by government employees, for government purposes.  In the field on the Southern part of Lot 1. ^[[and northern part of Lot 12.]], Tom Bronche, known as Tom. Robuska, was given a small patch of about half an acre possibly a little more, which he used as his garden while an agency employe.  He never cultivated the entire enclosure for himself.  James Moses who was also ^[[at times]] in the employ of the Agency, had a small patch from a quarter to a half an acre in the southwest corner of the field, and another employe had a melon patch on the north line further east; the center and bulk of the field was sown in wheat for hay by the Government.