It has been declared that great exagerations have been made in the past by the Agent in the amount of grain Raised by the Indians. How have they obtained their Subsistance? Answer Not by Government Rations   Nothing has been Issued to able bodied Men and women     Suppose there are  only 1500 Indians to Subsist    amp; Suppose you Calculate Each of the 1500 have one Ration of Flour during the year what amount of Wheat is required to Supply Allowing the Wheat to make 40 lbs of  Flour to the Bushel it would take 17,109 Bushels   Take the Rationing of 500 Piutes and Bannocks, Calculating as above 40 lbs Flour to the Bushel would require 5,678 5,703 Bushels which added to the above makes 26,208 22, 812 Bushels for Sustenancce. Say Nothing of Waste, Seed to Sow what they Sell  amp; feed  Where do they get their Flour but from their  own production