where the incoming buys could be kept under observation for several day* is also recommended Acord-ing to the report, 4 5 per cent of the inmates when received, are suffering either from adenoids, or diseased j tonsils, and in each ease operations have been performed just as soon as the bov was able to undergo ttie same.In the shoe department the boys have been especially active and the superintendent suggests that shoe* for other institutions can also be made at Lancaster, if the board so desires.The farm products for the year amounted to $ 19.954 49. and cost to] produce $11,715.82. leaving a net balance for the state or $8.1 so.67. He. sides the tarm product* tlo* boys were busy in tio* canning business and are now enjoying the benefit of their work They put up 3773 gallons of 1 tomatoes h»s:i gallons of apples. 193 ! 1 gallons of pickles and 20 1 gallons of catsupTin population ot tin* plare ou November 15 was 981, and the daily av- j erago for the year. 89 7, Of the 76 ! who ^scaped during the year. 56 have been returned and 20 are still at lib- ( ertj Only two deaths have occurred t in the school in tile past year, and r one of them was a suicidet’oyuhoga county leads with the 1 number of hoys sent in during the year with a total of 251. Franklin county is second with 112. Seven c counties failed to send any hoys. J ( namely, Harrison. Medina, Mercer, Noble, Ottawa, Paulding and Vinton.Of the inmates received, 53 were under 10 years of age. 51 under II,! ^ 7 2 under 12. 106 under 13. 83 under, * 14, 108 under 15, 93 under 16, 12 Under 17 and oue under 18 years. Of the boys who came in during the year 221 used tobacco and 12 intoxicating liquors. Seventy-one of them were foreign-bornm