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Farming and Agricultural Training in 
which the best of the products of the land are sent regularly. 
The remaining vegetables are either supplied to the school 
or consumed by pigs, which are largely kept. There were 
4 breeding sows, and about 16 of their produce are fattened 
annually, the rest being sold young to neighbouring farmers or 
to cottagers. The Superintendent has thirty years' experience 
of the school, and, like some other managers, he finds that the 
boys sent are smaller than they were some years ago ; most of 
them abandon agriculture for other pursuits when they leave 
the school, becoming frequently either soldiers or sailors, while 
a few emigrate. Of the 31 boys examined in 1884, 2 were 
in the Fifth Standard, 8 in the Fourth, 10 in the Third, and 
11 in the Second. 
IV. — Glamoeganshiee Refoematoet School, Ty Segue, 
NEAE Neath. 
" There is accommodation for 65 boys, and the average number maintained 
in 1884 was 50 ; recently it was over 60. The ages on entering are from 
9 to 14, and on leaving, from 15 to 19. The sentences vary from 3 to 5 
years. Many of the boys have been convicted twice and upwards ; they are 
mostly the neglected children of drunken parents in the large towns in the 
county. 
" For six months in the year the boys work six hours a day on the farm, 
and for the other six months, six-and-a-half hours (some are detailed for 
housework and the tailor's shop). No plough is used, but all spade labour. 
Each boy receives Id. per week for school-work, and Id. per week for labour. 
Monitors and very industrious boys receive more. Plots of garden ground 
have not been allotted to the boys here, but in lieu of that they are allowed 
to have lettuce, rhubarb, cabbage, &c., from the garden occasionally. 
" There are 19 acres of grass-land, and 22 acres of arable ; about 5 acres 
sown with barley, oats, and vetches ; the remainder with swedes, mangolds, 
turnips, and general garden produce, suitable for market. The rent of the 
farm is Ml. per annum. In 1884, the rewards to boys for faiin labour 
amounted to \2>l. lis. &d. ; payment to labourers, 21. 19s. 9d. ; and to the 
farm bailift', 78?. The land is changed for the different crops every year, 
but there is no regular rotation of cropping. One horse, 4 cows, 2 or 3 
breeding sows, boar, 8 store pigs, and about 2 dozen jx)u!try are kept. 
" In 1884 the following amounts were realised : — 
£ s. d. 
Live-stoi'k sckl 82 13 G 
Produce 252 6 5 
Supplied to school— £ «. d. 
Meat 10 6 8 
Vegetables 21 6 0 
Butter and milk .... 34 4 7 
G5 17 3 
£400 17 2 
"The farm-buildings are new and very compact; viz., cow-shed, stable, 
commodious loft over shed, 5 piggeries, cart-shed, storing shed for roots, and barn 
with potato storage in it. Farm-lalxnir exercises a healthy influence on the 
boys' minds ; they quickly learn to take an interest in it, and in all apjjcr- 
