State Reform School, 1894 Report

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 every foot of ground so water can reacli it.
 Each boy was given the chance to learn the application of water to
-the dilferent plants and vegetables, and many learned rapidly and became
+the different plants and vegetables, and many learned rapidly and became
 quite expert.
 The products of our garden will keep us supplied with good, fresh
 vegetables until we can raise them again next season.
-I suggest tlie purchase of more land, the forty acres we now own is
-not enougli to produce sufficient feed for the stock and vegetables for the
+==Health==
-school. Witli more land we could keep our own cows, thus supplying the
-inmates with milk, also raise our hay and feed, which we now have to
-buy. There is a farm joining us on the south, consisting of about eighty
-acres, which is for sale. This is a very desirable farm and would enable
-us to more thoroughly teach our boys practical agriculture and horticulture.
 The general health of the school has been excellent, the doctor having
 been called but twice, and in these cases only for dysentery. For this

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