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The Kitchen With the equipment already referred to, is in charge of a head cook, with an assistant, an Indian boy.--Four other boys work in the kitch on alternate weeks. All the food for the large Dining Room is prepared in the Kitchen. The vegetables are all prepared by te girls and sent to the Kitchen for cooking. In the Teachers' Club, the large girls get practical training in cooking. They serve on or three months in this capacity. An opportunity is afforded them to learn all sides of domestic cooking, and care of family table and dining room. Bakery In the basement of the kitchen is the bakery, the head baker being a Cherokee Indian with eight Indian assistants. The bakery has the following equipment of machines: 1 16-ft. rotary bake oven. 1 Triump, 4 bbl. dough mixed. 1 Queen City continuous feed-wirecut cake machine. 1 Day's economy round post cracker machine. 1 No. 3 safety dough brake. They bake daily 875 loaves of bread, once a week about 750 rolls, and weekly about 500 pies. The Dining Hall This is a large, well-lighted and ventilated room seating about 1000 children. There is a matron and an assistant. The ables are arranged to accommodate ten pupils each. All the tables are kept clean and in order by a detail of girls one to two babies for a month at a time. All food is placed upon the tables by them at the meal hour. Five girls serve as waitresses during the meal. Grace is said or sung at every meal. 36 [[end page]] [[start page]] Agriculture Farming is taught mostly from the practical side. There is a difference in farming on a small farm of one hundred and fifty acres in the hilly, mountainous regions of Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, as compared to the section ranches of the broad prairie lands of the West and Northwest. But fundamentally agriculture is the same the world over. There is this advantage, however, in being trained on a small Eastern farm, thorough manner in which the Eastern farmer studies his limited acreage and husbands his resources to get the best results, the studious manner in which he cultivates every foot of the small arm to produce large results, will not only give him superiority over the extravagances and offtimes wasteful practice of his Western brother, but also enables him to get greater results from the broad acres of the large prairie ranches of that fertile region. The chief difference is in the rotation of crops consequent upon the difference in soil. Economy is the primary law of farming in the East. On the nearly 300 acres of farm land adjacent to the school, and part of it, as well as among the hundreds of thrifty, well-to-do farmers of the East through the Outing, the Indian boys who take this line of work become neighbors cannot. This instruction in farming consists of care of farming implements and machinery, stock, fences and buildings. A study of various soils and their peculiar requirements, fertilizers, comparative values, and uses. Tiling and cultivating of soil, seeding and planting, rotation of crops, so as to preserve the quality of the soil and produce best results. Cultivation of growing crops in season. Destruction and annihilation of weeds. Draining and reclamation of so-called "waste tracts," harvesting and thrashing housing crops, and preparing them for the market, caring for feed so as to preserve its nutriment longest, and better fit for its intended purposes. 37
