be definitely feebleminded. A total of 30 per cent, were found to be retarded but not sufficiently to be called feebleminded at the present time. Forty per cent, were found to be of average mentality and 2 per cent. were found to be advanced one year mentally. The 51 feebleminded children can not be placed in foster homes and due to the crowded conditions at the School for Feeble-Minded Youth, these children remain in the orphans' home, a detriment to the proper functioning of the institution. [centered score] The State of Indiana purchased 2,210 acres of land at Butlerville, Jennings County, at a cost of $140,176.91, as a site for the new Farm Colony for the Feeble-Minded, created by the legislature of 1919. At the present time there are 21 feebleminded boys and 21 prisoners from the Indiana Reformatory, working on the farm, growing the first year's crops. Mr. Earnest E. Chenoweth is superintendent of the new institution. When a sufficient number of buildings are available for occupancy it will be opened by proclamation by the Governor. There is no age limit for admission. The Institution will receive feebleminded persons by commitment from the circuit court. It is hoped by means of this institution to relieve the crowded situation at the School for Feeble-Minded Youth at Fort Wayne to such an extent that the latter can be used only as a training station for children under the age of 21. [centered score] Dr. W. E. Fernal of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-minded states that the first steps in a rational state program for the care of the mental defectives call for: (a) a complete and continuing census of the uncared-for feebleminded of the whole state; (b) legal provision for the commitment of uncared-for defective persons to the permanent custody of the state; (c) extra institution supervision for cases dismissed from institution as a permanent parole measure, and supervision of non-institutional cases; (d) special public school classes serving also as clearing houses for the recognition of defective children. [centered score] The Mental Deficiency Law of the State of New York provides that the certificates of mental defect upon which mentally defective persons are commited to institutions must be made by special examiners - either physicians who are licensed to practice or by physicians in cooperation with psychologists. Such examiners must file with the State Commission on Mental Defectives and a court of record a certificate showing that they have the necessary professional qualifications, determined by the Commission, to judge defectives. [centered score] The New York State Commission for Mental Defectives proposes state-wide establishment of clinics for the diagnosis and treatment of mental diseases and defects. These clinics would co-ordinate with the public health centers which the Department of Health is now establishing. There are now 30 clinics for mental patients maintained by the state hospitals for the insane. [end]