THE BOYS' OUTING FARM 



Bv Roland Rice 



Many have devoted their time to boy-work. A few have sought the practical, 

 and have based their work on rational study and experiment. 



The nature of the work must vary according to the conditions of the locality. 

 This is true of the Boys' Outing Farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains, intended as a 

 place to provide suitable vacations for normal working boys of the city. 



The main feature of the original plan of this institution was, and still is, that 

 the normal, the average, good working boy of the city be given a short vacation in 

 the country, assisting those who are most worthy and who would otherwise be 

 unable to go. 



Our work is complex and varied, because we deal with life. We deal with 

 the youth in the flower of his adolescence and prior to it, with its vagaries of 

 thought and fancies and with its disillusionments. Each boy is different. Each 

 has a special temperament, racial tendencies and characteristics, and different home 

 surroundings. It would be a difficult task to go into the details of working with 

 these problems, as they involve things little understood by the public. This work 

 is for the specialist. It is not a field wherein theories or speculation count. It 

 deals with facts; and facts are obtained only by an impartial investigation of cause 

 and effect. 



