262 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The circumstances of the farm with respect to its connection 

 with the State Reform School, and the importance and necessity 

 of furnishing Avork for a large number of Ijoys, having been 

 explained in the report of the Committee on Labor, it is not 

 necessary to repeat that many of the permanent improvements 

 on the farm are undertaken for the purpose of furnishing 

 employment for the boys, and that though the amount of 

 expenditures by the Committee on Liiprovements appears to be 

 large, the labor of each boy being credited at ten cents a day 

 of six hours, yet the actual cost to the State is far less, even 

 when viewed from a pecuniary point of view, to say nothing of 

 the absolute necessity, in a moral point of view, of employing 

 the boys in the open air and in healthy exercise. 



The committee having charge of this department submitted 

 the following 



REPORT: 



The committee on permanent improvements would respectfully 

 offer to the Board of Agriculture their annual report of disburse- 

 ments, for their approval. 



1st. As per account of labor in repairing the reservoir 

 and drain at the institution, setting gate posts, 

 repairing farm-house and old walls, . . . $51 1/5 



2d. Labor in constructing a road to the new reservoir, 



west of the grove, by men and teams, . . $403 65 



925 days' labor by boys, at 10 cents per day of 6 



hours, . . 92 50 



$496 15 



3d. Labor in front of farm-house to barn lane, and 

 from road to path leading from farm-house to 

 barn, blasting stones, labor by men and ox 



teams, $265 49 



912 days' work by boys, at 10 cents, ... 91 20 



Blacksmith, $23 ; powder for blasting, $10, . . 33 CO 



$389 69 



