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Provisions are mostly bought by contract at Carlisle in fall season in order to make selection from new crop. The table of pupils is supplied with great variety of food; i. e. Bacon, Beef, Veal, Pork and Codfish, Eggs, Butter, Milk, Beans, Rice, Hominy, Oatmeal, Barley, Flour, Corn meal, Potatoes, Onions, Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, Sugar, Syrup, Vinegar, etc. In winter Canned Corn, Peas and Tomatoes, in summer Lettuce, Peas, Cabbage, Radishes, Spinach, Celery, Pumpkins, Rudabagas, Asparagus, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Sweet corn, etc., Fruit, Apples, Strawberries; in addition to above, Raisins, Currants, Apples green, Apples dried, Peaches dried, Prunes dried, are purchased by contract in November each year.

The BAKERY employs one baker and eight assistants,--all Indians. They have fine machinery to furnish wholesome clean bread, a rotary bake oven, a dough-mixer, a cake and a cracker machine. We on an average bake 4 barrels of flour daily. Usually bake during week in addition to bread 320 pies, 1500 rolls, 15 pans cake, 15 pans corn bread.

OUR KITCHEN employs two cooks with eight boys as assistants.

OUR DINING ROOM is presided over by two Matrons who also instruct girls preparing vegetables for kitchen, washing dishes, etc. Our dining-room seats 1000 pupils.

Health Department

It is with a good deal of pride that we point to the health conditions at Carlisle. The school is beautifully located in one of the most fertile and healthful valleys in southern Pennsylvania, surrounded by picturesque mountains and streams. The climate is temperate, with neither excessively hot summers nor very cold winters.

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The buildings are for the most part old but commodious, and well kept, and readily ventilated. They are lighted by electricity and heated by steam heat from a central plant. The school is supplied with an excellent sewerage system and the grounds, which are beautifully laid out in walks and carriage drives, are kept scrupulously clean at all times.

The hospital maintained at the school has a capacity of fifty patients and is fairly well equipped. The second story of the building is devoted to the use of the male patients while the girls occupy the lower floor. It has its own kitchen and can furnish any special sick diet that may be prescribed.

The amount of sickness here is not excessive which is due, no doubt, to the good sanitary conditions of the school generally as well as to the fact that the students in attendance are provided with a generous and wholesome diet of meats, vegetables, milk, cereals and fruits, are well clothed, and have excellent bathing facilities. The athletic sports which include baseball, football, tennis and basketball are indulged in by a large number of the boys and are conducive, in no small measure, to the general good health and well being of our students.

With the exception of tuberculosis there are comparatively few cases of sickness here of a serious nature. Although tuberculosis is one of the most widely distributed of all diseases, yet, considering the large number of pupils attending the school from all over the country, and the natural predisposition of the race to it, the number of cases of this disease is not large. At present there are no cases of tuberculosis under treatment at the school.

The climate of this section of the country is not particularly unfavorable for the outcome of cases of consumption as this disease is now known to be successfully treated in crowded tenement districts of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and other large cities of the east.