36 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



All the camp equipment, files and printed material were 

 available and delivered to this Department, thus providing 

 the records of over 5,000 boys placed during the war. Ninety 

 per cent of these boys were from the city high schools and were 

 taking up farm work for the first time. 



Over 90 per cent worked all of the vacation period and 

 proved satisfactory to their employers. Several hundred have 

 enrolled the second and third years, and over 100 returned this 

 year to employers of previous years. Others have taken year- 

 round jobs or entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



In 1918, 2,500 boys were placed on farms. They earned 

 $500,000 and added $2,000,000 to the crops. Twenty-two 

 camps were operated containing 1,600 boys and 900 others were 

 placed on farms where they boarded. 



Private subscriptions expended, 1917, $11,000 



Public safety appropriation, 1918, 39,000 



Special appropriation by Legislature, 1919, 2,500 



Special appropriation by Legislature, 1920, 7,500 



Of the $.39,000 spent in 1918, $22,000 was for camp equip- 

 ment, tents, cots, cooking utensils, tent floors, cook shacks, 

 etc. Much of this equipment is still available, but repairs and 

 replacements are necessary after three years' use. 



In 1919 the appropriation was not granted until July 24, too 

 late to plan the season's Avork, which begins with the schools, — 

 supervisors selected, camp sites selected and equipped, all in the 

 early spring. 



The 1920 appropriation of. $7,500 has been expended as fol- 

 lows : — 



Supervision, 



Medical attendance, 



Opening and closing camps, equipment, etc., 



Ptailroad fare for boys, 



Office, salary, traveling expenses, printing, etc., 



Boys placed, 



In camps, . 



On individual farms. 



