1858.] SENATE— No. 4. 209 



Secondly. The noble object for which the school was founded, by 

 General Lyman, viz ; The reformation of erring youth; the educa- 

 tion and proper direction of the fatherless, homeless, and forsaken 

 boys, who are daily coming to the notice of the law, was the one great 

 object, in, fact, to be always borne in mind which, although second in 

 order, is always first in the minds of the trustees having this peculiar 

 charge, and our Board, who are to all intents assimilated with those 

 gentlemen in this great enterprise. 



The first year, 1854, this Board had the charge of the farm, an 

 average of only forty-two boys per day, (taking the year through,) at 

 an expense of eight hundred and seventy- four dollars and ten cents, 

 (8874.10) were employed on the land. 



The second year, twenty-five thousand six hundred and fifty-one 

 days' work were performed by the boys, averaging eighty-three per 

 day, at the sum of two thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars 

 and ten cents, ($2,565.10.) 



The third year, an averagia of ninety-seven boys daily, costing us 

 nineteen hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty cents, ($ 1 ,998.30,) 

 were employed ; while the past year an average of ninety-five boys 

 have been employed daily at a cost of nineteen hundred and sixty-one 

 dollars and sixty cents ($1,961.60) to our Board, making the sum of 

 seven thousand three hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ten cents 

 ($7,399.10.) Of this sum labor has been done for the Reform School 

 in grading, carting coal, &c., &c., to the amount of $797.60, and in 

 permanent improvements on the farm, $2,000, during the year 1857, 

 say $2,797.60, two thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars 

 and sixty cents which should be deducted from said amount of 

 $7,399.10 in estimating the expense of carrying on the farm. (It 

 should be borne in mind that the average of days' work put down 

 were not performed all the year through, but a large proportion done 

 during warm weather, as in 1856 and '57, some two hundred boys 

 were daily employed on the farm.) 



This sum of $7, 399.10 having been paid directly back to the State 

 out of the money appropriated towards carrying on the farm, while 

 the equivalent in labor has in no degree been given to us ; the main 

 object being the great sanitary benefit which the boys experience from 

 working on the land in the open air, whether engaged in weeding root 

 crops, hoeing corn, or general farm work. Each and all tend to develop 

 the man, educate and direct the mind to some active employment and 

 present some great industrial aim to view which, to boys, can be 

 much more directly brought to bear out-doors, than however other- 

 wise employed in-doors, the latter being the undisputed field for 

 woman. 



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