The quantity of milk produced is about one thousand pounds daily, which supplies them with sufficient milk and nearly butter enough for consumption in the institution. Thirty head of pigs are kept is small shacks in the open yard. The number found was small on account of hog cholera the previous year.

The institution has a hundred and sixty employes on the payroll, and one thousand and twenty inmates. Over one-half of the inmates are female, and upwards of three hundred are affected more or less with epilepsy, which causes still further degeneration mentally and physically. The male and female. inmates are well segregated, as are also the moral degenerates from the mentally feeble.

Taking into consideration the mental and physical condition of these inmates, the subject of sterilization is one which would merit the serious consideration of the legislature as a matter of legislation. Like begets like, and to prevent the increase in our state of the propagation of the mentally feeble, a sterilization law seems to be advisable in cases of this class, subject to rigid and proper regulation.

Good attendants were found to be employed, and the inmates that are capable are employed in mechanical work of various kinds, and given school advantages, as well as exercise indoor and out. The land is worked principally by the inmates. superintendent, Dr. Wilmarth, is in thorough sympathy with the work and in touch with every detail of the institution.

The institution is practically filled to the limit, and as paroles are not advisable in most cases, more room will be needed in the near future.

The total income of this institution in 1911 was $103,522, and in 1912, $105,682. Counties pay $1.50 per inmate per week committed by them (increased to $1.75 by the present legislature, which will increase revenues somewhat).

We find that the buildings erected under the appropriation of two years ago were built in a good, first-class, substantial manner, and the money was well spent.

It is the sense of the committee that the salary of the superintendent, $2,500, might judiciously be somewhat increased.

1. School house

Needs of the Institution.

2. Assistant physician's cottage

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STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL-SPARTA.

The State Public School, visited on February 6, 1913, was found in as neat and clean condition as the buildings would permit, and the institution seemed to be well managed. The main building for employes is very badly in need of repairs on the interior, and the furniture also is in a rather dilapidated condition. The power house and laundry were found in poor shape, especially in the interior. The engine room and machinery are apparently in good condition. An electric generator, small unit, is needed to carry the day load.

The toilet in the power house is in an unsanitary condition. It is suggested that a new toilet and bath room for men be installed.

The new dormitory and annex buildings were severely criticised in their construction by the committee.

The two new cottages built in 1909 and 1910, one of them being occupied for the first time this winter, being used as a home for the crippled children, the other being unoccupied, in the judgment of the committee were not properly constructed and are in very bad shape, and a liberal appropriation should be made to put these two buildings in condition for occupancy and for wear.

Cottages A, C and E are in need of shingling, and asbestos shingles were suggested at an approximate cost of $1,800.

A balcony for the main building is asked.

Fences were poor and it was thought that an appropriation of about $400.00 would be needed to put them in good condition. Much painting and interior repairs seem to be necessary in all old buildings. In many places the plastering was loose and falling off and many of the rooms were badly in need of paint and paper. Tile floors for the toilet rooms are needed.

There are 132 children now at the institution; twenty-eight are in the baby cottage; there are nine crippled children, and three are in the hospital.

There are fifty-two employes on the pay-roll. The superintendent claims that they should have one more agent to look after the placing of children. Agents already in their employ made 1,200 visits last year and investigated 269 applications for children. 3,100 children have passed through the institution during its lifetime.

The tunnel that has been built for conducting pipes and wires should be connected up by extensions to the buildings.

It will also be necesary to construct a bridge across the creek on the farm, which will probably cost $1,000.

They have twenty milch cows, nineteen head of young cattle, and seven horses on the farm, and enough hay is raised to feed the stock. Just previous to this time, 4,400 pounds of pork sold for $312, and they have sixty-two head of swine on hand. The net receipts from the farm last year were $1,975.88.

We would suggest that telephone connection be made between the buildings, and in buildings that now have soft wood. floors, these should be replaced by hardwood. Twenty-four per cent of the children received are said to be illegitimate; five and one-half per cent received on account of poverty.

On account of the present buildings being in such bad condition and some of them unoccupied, in the judgment of the committee, there should be no more new buildings built at this institution until the present buildings are put in good first-class condition.

Maintenance of children, whatever investigation of Board of Control may disclose.

SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF-DELAVAN.

Upon visiting the Delavan institution for the deaf on February 10, 1913, the committee found Superintendent Walker in charge. He conducted the committee through the various buildings and departments. The buildings were found in a very good general condition, clean and sanitary. However, in some of the buildings the walls are in need of paint and minor repairs. The barn buildings, a design by the students, shows to a remarkable degree the good results of teaching carpentry to the boys. The students were doing good work in various departments where trades are taught.

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The printing shop was well conducted under the supervision of Mr. Larson, and copies of the weekly paper printed there were distributed to the committee. Much of the job printing of other state institutions might be done here to good advantage. The superintendent suggested that a linotype machine would be of great value in the education of the boys in this line of work, as operators on such machines are in great demand and receive high wages.

Shoemaking and cobbling are taught as trades, and some excellent work by students was shown. The manual training department is giving good satisfaction in training boys to be useful with their hands in various ways that will help them very much in their future work as self-supporting citizens. The girls are taught different kinds of sewing, both plain and fancy, and many fine specimens of their work were exhibited. Several classes in school work were visited and the students appeared very bright and well advanced for their age. Lip reading and speaking are taught to all students, as well as the old method with the fingers. One class in oral arithmetic was especially worthy of notice. Students are quick to respond, and all seemed to be enthusiastic, each taking an active part in the work of the class.

The superintendent made a very earnest appeal to the committee for pictures for the walls, stating that good pictures of merit were to the deaf pupil what music is to the blind. for they use their sense of sight for self-education in various ways to take the place of their lost sense of hearing. The lack of such pictures as described as urgently needed was surely noticeable, and the reasoning of the superintendent along this line appealed to the committee's judgment as being well founded.

Another request that seems to be a reasonable one was for a gas plant and fixtures for cooking to take the place of the old and soon to be discarded stoves. It was thought that such a system would be an excellent one to instal for economy and comfort, for the heat of stoves in the summer in the basement is almost intolerable.

The dining room floor was called to our attention, which being made of porous tile will not retain paint, and is very difficult to keep in a clean and sanitary condition, giving off an unwholesome odor.

Truck farming is taught and conducted with much benefit. Eighteen head of cattle are kept, nine of which are milch cows. There are seventeen head of swine.

We consider Professor Walker a very efficient man for this place and that he is doing most excellent work for the pupils.

The committee visited the Industrial School at Waukesha on February 11, 1913. The buildings and grounds all were found in fairly good condition. Some of the older buildings are in need of repairs, the brick and stone work being damaged by the elements; gutters, down spouts, chimneys, and roofs all need repairs.

Buildings for the younger boys are being built at the east end of the grounds for their segregation from the older ones. This we consider to be of great importance, and Superintendent Hutton should receive due credit for inaugurating this needed change. The older boys are a dangerous source of moral contamination to the younger ones. In the institution they should live entirely separate at all times from the older ones to prevent their learning the vicious habits of the many moral degenerates that come from Milwaukee and other cities. The older boys are kept in families of thirty or forty each with a matron to manage them, and they are thus given something of a home life. Of the three new buildings the one for family use is completed and needs but to be furnished for occupancy. The other family home will be finished by August 1st and the school building completed ready for use May 1st.

The principal industries taught here are farming, tailoring, shoe making, manual training, and various useful industries.

Of the 450 acres of farm land considerably over one-half is tilled, and the boys are thus trained in this kind of work. About eighty head of cattle are on hand, of which forty-five are