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'eply t o t he following: 18839-93 IPfcpatftmfcwt of tTie Utrt In reply to your request of 1st instant, for authority to slaughter one hull, three calves and one cow, belonging to the school, to subsist the scholars, for the reason that the bull breaks through fences,and the cow is not a first class milker, - you are informed that if the bull is of moderately good grade it seems to this office that, provided you need a bull, it would be better to keep this one fastened up in a ^ stable or bam, than to kill him and then have to buy anothe class milch cow, she may be of more value for milking then for beef, and you might, if you slaughtered her, have to buy another. I will, therefore, not authorize the slaughter of the bull and cow until I hear further from you in regard to the matter; but as it is presumed that it would not be economy to OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, Washington, April 13, 1893. S. M. McGowan, Superintendent Indian School, Fort Mojave, Arizona. m Sir: And in regard to the cow, even if she is not a first
