Farming and Agricultural Training in Reformatories^ 8fc. 171 
It may be well to point out to any reader who may have 
ipursued our figures to their conclusions in balance-sheets of 
'his own arrangement, relating to the several farms herein 
described, that the prices of the years referred to have been 
altogether exceptional. It is not more remarkable that some 
•Cheshire farmers should have been able to make extraordinary 
incomes when cheese sold at IQs. a cwt. than that others should 
be able to live at all and pay a rent, when by either misfortune 
■or mismanagement their cheese realises, as it often does, not 
much more than half as much. 
We cannot close our Report without again thanking each and 
all of the competitors for the facilities afforded us in obtaining 
the necessary information ; and also for their great kindness and 
'^hospitality on every occasion when we had to visit their farms. 
Thomas Nuttall. 
Samuel Rowlandsok. 
J, Chalmers Morton. 
v. — Farming and Agricultural Training in Reformatory and 
Industrial Schools, with Notes on Spade-labour. By H. M. 
Jenkins, F.G.S., Secretary of the Society and Editor of the 
' Journal.' 
'In my Report on Agricultural Education to the Royal Commis- 
sion on Technical Instruction * (p. 315), I remarked that at the 
present time there exists no machinery in Great Britain for the 
technical instruction of the sons of small farmers or farm-bailiffs, 
•or of other lads who desire to follow one or other of those callings ; 
and I suggested the establishment of Farm-schools, more or less 
•on the French model, for the purpose of supplying this de- 
ficiency. I assumed that a small farmer or farm-bailiff would 
*' keep his son at school until he is at least fourteen years of age, 
and would then be willing to apprentice him to a large farmer, 
•if he could see clearly that it would be to the boy's advantage — 
the small value of the boy's labour not being of immense 
importance in consideration of the fact that the keep of a lad of 
'that age, if he is strong and healthy, is almost certain to cost as 
much as he is likely to earn." 
The details of my plan were briefly : " That in each county 
there should be selected a good farm, the tenant of which would 
agree under certain terms to take agricultural apprentices for a 
* 'Second Report of the Royal Cominissioiicis ou Tuelinieal Instructiou,' 
-vol. ii., 1S84. [U— o98L— I.] 
