Reformatory and Industrial Schools. 
195 
1883. 1884. 
£ s. d.' £ «. d. 
Live-stock sold Ill 5 3 ,. .. 84 5 2 
Hire of boys and produce .. .. |^gg .... 329 11 9 
SnppUed to school 27 10 0 .... 26 5 0 
Total.. .. £417 16 1* £440 1 11 
" The farm-buildings are suitable ; built partly of stone and partly of brick, 
Toofed with slate, consisting of cowsheds, piggeries, barn, stable, tool- 
house, &c. 
" In a Reformatory School I think there is no occupation that tends to in- 
fluence a boy's mind in the right direction better than farm-work. As a rule, 
the boys admitted come from close and imhealthy neighbourhoods, where they 
see little but depravity. We find that field and garden work has a very bene- 
feial effect upon such cases. The boys discharged from this Eeformatory, 
who have taken an interest in farm-work during their detention, and have 
kept to the same work after leaving, have rarely been out of emplo3rment aud 
very seldom relapsed into crime. Farm- work is the principal industry at the 
school. A few boys are employed occasionally in repairing clothes. 
"I feel sure that the education in a Reformatory School can compare 
favourably with the education given in an ordinary elementary school. 
" It would be well to have an industrial department in every village school, 
hut this is at present impossible for lack of funds. I regret to say that the 
low price of aU agricxiltural produce is telling severely on the finances of our 
school at Tiffield. 
" Rev. Johx Beowx, 
" One of the Secretaries, 
" Tiffield Reforma.tory School" 
The chief remark with reference to this Reformatory that 
I need make is, that I witnessed an attempt there to make 
the boys conversant with the use of a steam threshing- 
machine. Of course they did not feed the machine or have 
anything to do that would involve the possibility of danger ; 
but as in other Reformatories I had seen boys using the flail, 
this new experience struck me as being an attempt at a some- 
what higher technical education. Still, as I was informed by 
the Rev. J. Brown, very few of the boys, except those who 
emigrate, continue farming after they have left the school ; 
most of them go to Yarmouth and become fishermen. In 
this case, as in most others, the boys are hired largely at 
times of pressure by neighbouring farmers, earning Is. each 
per diem, but taking their own food with them. The land is 
well cultivated, but would doubtless be more productive if 
there were more capital available for the purchase of stock. 
Under the present system, cattle are either bought or taken in 
to winter, so as to tread the straw into manure. The super- 
intendent of this school joined with others in his position in 
stating that the boys now received are younger and smaller 
♦ Less boy's labour, the amount is 331?. 10$. 3d., as stated in Table II. 
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