Reformatory and Industrial Schools, 
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" The receipts from the farm in 1884 were : — 
£ s. d. £ «. d. 
Wheat, barley, &c 70 12 6 
Milk, butter, &c 16 15 7 
Vegetables (potatoes, &c.) 47 11 0 
Hay, seerls, &c 17 6 0 
Live-stock 58 17 0 
Swedes, fed by sheep 512 0 
216 14 1 
For supplies to School : — 
Meat 18 3 8 
Vegetables 35 15 10 
Milk, butter 47 0 G 
101 0 0 
Total £317 14 1 
" The farm-buildinga consist of barn, cowhouse, sheds, and pigsties, built of 
wood and slated, and a small farmyard. The Committee regard farm- labour 
very suitable as a means of training boys in habits of honest industry. They 
are taught the right way of handling and using tools, so as to fit them to 
become good agricultural labourers. The boys are eagerly sought after and 
employed by the neighbouring farmers, who are always glad to obtain their 
services. Last year they earned for the school more than 3001. in this way. 
" I do not think that Elementary Education (meaning, instruction in the 
three R.'s, which is nearly all we aim at) suffers at all in our school by its 
combination with practical work, and I shall be very sorry to see any attempt 
to cram our boys with more book-learning at the cost of injuring our indus- 
trial learning, which, after the religious instruction, I consider to be the 
back-bone of Reformatory treatment. I have no acquaintance with Board 
Schools, therefore I cannot say anything about our work in comparison with 
theirs. I have often thought that it would be a good thing if some industrial 
training could be combined with the elementary education given in our 
rural schools, and especially in our Union Schools. 
"John B. Bbandram, 
"Hon. Secretary, 
" Berts Be/ormatcyry School, near Ware." 
The land attached to this school is gravel to the surface, very 
hungry and easily burnt, especially in a dry season like that of 
1885. It cannot, therefore, be wondered at that the garden- 
crops, the turnips (although sown twice), and the clover after- 
math, were all miserable exhibitions on August 11th. The 
wheat and barley, however, were promising. The best use 
made of the boys' labour here is to let them out, either on, 
licence or in gangs, to the neighbouring farmers, who pay 2d. 
an hour for each boy's work, and find the labour cheaper and 
better than that they obtain in the ordinary way. The greatest 
punishment to a boy for bad behaviour is not to allow him to 
go out to work. When the boys have served their time, the 
great difficulty in the way of placing them out in England is the 
general one of lodgings ; but many go to Canada. The level of 
education is not very high : 1 in Standard Five, 8 in Standard 
Four, 12 in Standard Three, 15 in Standard Two, and 7 in 
