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FARM AND GARDEN.

The value of the products of the farm and garden, and the cost of operating the same during the year 1878, were as follows:

Cash value of crops raised......

Cash sales of surplus and useless property on account of farm ..

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$324 50
289 66

Less amount expended for permanent improvement, to wit:
Cash for purchase of 6,437 feet of drain pipe....
Cash for labor in putting down 6,437 feet of drain pipe..
Cash for stone to build 1,128 feet of stone drain
Cash for labor in building 1,128 feet of stone drain
Cash for labor in relaying 2,611 feet drain pipe......

Current expenditures to carry on farm and garden.............

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101 52

130 55

870 98

6, 156 84

2,419 10

Net profits of farm and garden.....
Market value of crop raised, 1873, $8,748.39; net profit of farm, $3,504.37.
Market value of crop raised, 1874, $9,193.90; net profit of farm, $2,150.00.
Market value of crop raised, 1875, $9,414.10; net profit of farm, $3,404.31.
Market value of crop raised, 1876, $7,581.07; net profit of farm, $2,037.91.
Market value of crop raised, 1877, $8,488.63; net profit of farin, $2,903.37.
Market value of crop raised, 1878, $8,567.86; net profit of farm, $2,419.10.
Market value of crop raised, 6 years, $51,993.95; net profit of farm, $16,419.06.
Expended for permanent improvement of farm during last 6 years, $9,264.09.

The following tabular statement exhibits in detail the products of the farm and garden and the value and disposition of each article produced:

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I certify that the foregoing statement of "Products of farm and garden" is a correct abstract from the books in my office.

W. H. LOUGH,

SHOPS.

The following table exhibits the number of mechanical trades carried on at this branch during the year 1878, with number of men employed in each shop, amount of expenditure, value of products, and net profits in each, to wit:

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Secretary.

CLOTHING.

The rule for issuing clothing at this branch has been modified during the year, and is now as follows: Each beneficiary when admitted to the Home for the first time is given clothing to the value of $15, and sixty days afterwards he is given clothing to the value of $6.55, making the value of his admission suit, for which no charge is made, $21.55; subsequently, if he requires it, he is allowed clothing to the value of $24.37 per year; and if he has an income from pension or extra duty, or both, exceeding $5 per month, he is required to pay for it; otherwise it is donated to him. The following table exhibits the kind, quantity, and value, as fixed by General Orders of the War Department for 1871, of all clothing issued during the year:

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Value of clothing issued during first quarter, $4,298. 36; second quarter, $1,760. 26; third quarter, $2,064. 14; fourth quarter, $4,173. 64.

LAUNDRY.

The work of the Home laundry, in which six men were regularly employed during the year, has been as follows:

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SANITARY REGULATIONS.

Beneficiaries of this branch are required to bathe not less frequently than once a week; and the company sergeants and hospital steward are charged with the duty of enforcing strict obedience to this rule.

DISCIPLINE.

The most unwelcome as well as the most imperative duties devolving upon the commanding officer of the Home are those connected with the maintenance of necessary discipline among the beneficiaries. These delicate and responsible offices should be exercised without fear or favor, and not in accordance with Beccaria's pernicious fallacy, "the greatest good of the greatest number," under which theory any act of barbarism or injustice may be sanctioned so long as the majority is not injuriously affected thereby, but in accordance with the more enlightened sentiment, "the greatest good of the whole number," which recognizes all persons as equally entitled to the protection of the State, and to attain this end, permits the natural rights of every individual to be in some measure abridged. Therefore, in an institution like this, regulations requiring inmates to conform to certain rules in their dormitories and at the table, to observe habits of cleanliness and order, to be present at stated rollcalls, and to repair to their quarters at certain hours, prohibiting inebriation, vulgarity, and boisterous conduct, &c., are indispensable, although they are in fact abridgments of natural rights. Generally, the beneficiaries of this Home cheerfully conform to the regulations established for their government, but in some instances the rules can be enforced only by the imposition upon offenders of adequate penalties, which are restricted to fines, laboring without pay, and confinement for limited periods in the guard-house. Fines are occasionally remitted for long-continued exemplary conduct, or for the benefit of dependent families, and in the exercise of his discretion the commanding officer has, during the year 1878, remitted penalties to the amount of $594.91.

The following tabular statement exhibits the number and nature of offenses committed against the discipline of the Home during the year 1878, by pensioners and by non-pensioners and the amount of penalties imposed upon each class, to wit:

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The whole number of pensioners in the Home during the year was 536, of which 262, or 49 per cent., committed 1,757 offenses, and 274 committed no offenses The whole number of non-pensioners in the Home during the year was 763, of which 323, or 42 per cent., com

mitted 1,265 offenses, and 449 committed no offenses. The following tabular statement exhibits the number of offenses committed by each beneficiary during the year, to wit:

1 man committed 53 offenses 1 man committed 47 offenses 2 men committed 35 offenses 1 man committed 34 offenses 3 men committed 32 offenses 1 man committed 29 offenses 1 man committed 28 offenses 1 man committed 26 offenses 2 men committed 23 offenses 2 men committed 22 offenses 2 men committed 21 offenses 7 men committed 19 offenses 7 men committed 18 offenses 3 men committed 17 offenses 4 men committed 16 offenses 5 men committed 15 offenses 5 men committed 14 offenses 13 men committed 13 offenses 7 men committed 12 offenses 10 men committed 11 offenses 5 men committed 10 offenses 19 men committed 9 offenses 23 men committed 8 offenses 21 men committed 7 offenses 22 men committed 6 offenses 40 men committed 5 offenses 48 men committed 4 offenses 64 men committed 3 offenses 92 men committed 2 offenses 173 men committed 1 offense

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Seven hundred and fourteen inmates committed no offenses.

Of twelve hundred and ninety-nine beneficiaries who have been cared for in this branch during the year 1878, 714 have committed no offense against the discipline of the Home or the laws of the land; and 173 have committed but one offense each. Considering the fact that the beneficiaries of the Home are separated from restraining family and domestic influences, and that few of the offenses recorded against them here would generally be considered as offenses against public policy, the record of their deportment cannot but be gratifying to and challenge the admiration of all friends of the institution. It is, indeed, rarely that an agricultural horse-trot, an outdoor political gathering, a religious campmeeting, or any village containing 1,000 male adults, is not daily vexed with more of inebriety and disorder than is ever found at this Home.

DISHONORABLE DISCHARGES.

As an ultimate means of preserving discipline, it sometimes becomes the imperative duty of the commandant, with the approval of the president of the Board of Managers, to expel incorrigible offenders from the Home. In the exercise of this discretion, after repeated warnings and great forbearance in each case, 22 beneficiaries have been dishonorably discharged from this branch during the year, for offenses as follows: Incorrigible drunkenness, repeated absence without leave, and general misconduct, 7.

Habitual drunkenness and absence without leave, lounging about liquor saloons in the vicinity of the Home, and refusing to perform labor

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