Show PROFIT IN MUNICIPAL FARM I 1 springfield made money after supporting prisoners and aiding lantere Lat families in springfield tit ill tile the sum ot of la in cash was realized from the municipal farm farin in addition to the keep of prisoners and a considerable quantity of vegetables for prisoners families according to a report issued vy by city prison keeper henry who had charge of the farm approximately too bushels of corn com were raised on the 20 acre tract near the water works the grain was sold to the polite police and lire fire departments for the horses in addition addI tioU to the corn vegetables ege tables raised such as potatoes onions cabbage beans and other garden stuff brought aside from the money earned declares the experiment has worked out to the great physical and moral benefit of prisoners who it if it had not been tor for the prison farm would have been confined all summer or at least a great part of it in the bull pen at the city prison commissioner roy IL reese head bead of the department ot of health and public safety Is well pleased with the plan |