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" I should think that elementary education does not suffer at all by its 
combination with practical "work. 
" Isaac McHardt, 
" Superintendent, 
" Sheffield Trxants' Industrial School, Sheffield.'' 
This school is of yet another stamp ; but its management 
illustrates how practical work can assist the education of boys 
who have hitherto been incorrigible truants, although the term 
of their detention does not average more than fourteen weeks. 
The land is in a very exposed and high position, and has been 
reclaimed from the moor. Bush fruits, rhubarb, and straw- 
berries are much grown, but the climate is too late to make 
market-gardening profitable. Milk is sold by contract to a 
milkman in Sheffield ; and at the time of my visit (June, 1885) 
butter was being sold at Is. 3d. per lb. This was considered a 
very low price, but at the same time the general market price 
in Sheffield was only lid. The peculiar circumstances of this 
school render it probable that the School Board will not retain 
the farm much longer, but will keep only 10 or 12 acres for 
kitchen-garden and other purposes. Further, also, owing to 
the short period of detention of the boys, nothing can be said 
with regard to their general education beyond what has been 
already stated by Mr. McHardy. 
Conclusion. 
The details given in the preceding pages refer only to 18 out 
of 61 Reformatory Schools, and to 8 out of 145 Industrial and 
Truant Schools ; but all those which I have visited are Boys' 
Schools, in which agricultural training holds at least a con- 
spicuous place. At the Reformatories, the total number of 
inmates in 1884 was 6360, and the number in the Industrial 
Schools was 19,483 ; while the total expenditure in the former 
case was 125,583/., and in the latter, 362,614/. This money 
was found partly by the Treasury, partly by the ratepayers, and 
partly by the subscribers, while the parents were made to repaj- 
the Treasury a fraction of the amount advanced. The following 
tabular statement will make this part of the subject clear : — 
Reformatories. ^-^^^^^ 
Number of boys and girls .. .. 6,360 .... 19,483 
£ £ 
Paid by Treasury 85,528 .... 183,458 
Eepaid by Parents 6,168 .... 17,955 
Paid out of Rates 24,917 .... 39,466 
Paid by School Boards 78,193 
Subscriptions 4,146 .... 30,152 
Profits and Hire of Labour .. .. 11,436 .... 25,204 
Total Expenditure 125,583 .... 362,61-1 
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