They make annually for the United States government two thousand pairs of shoes for the Indians.

They also look after outside orders, and do all the repairing, etc., of boots and shoes for the faculty, officers, and students--making fully five thousand pairs of shoes a year, if we include the repairing in this estimate.

At the head of this department is a practical shoemaker from Boston.

Each department has a practical man at its head.

We visited, not all the first day, the blacksmith, wheelwright and tin shops, and looked through the printing office, and the knitting-room, in which young men are engaged manufacturing thousands of mittens annually for a firm in Boston.