The requirements for admission to the Academy of Idaho are much the same as those of the normal schools; the applicant must show either by certificate or examination that he is able to follow successfully the course which he elects.  No tuition is charged residents of Idaho, and pupils from other states are admitted to all the privileges of the Academy by payment of a reasonable tuition.

The Industrial Reform School—­The Industrial Reform School was established in 1903 at St. Anthony, Fremont County.  The purpose of this school, as set forth in the act which created it, is “for the care, protection, training, and education of delinquent, dependent, and neglected children, and, [to] provide for the care, control, and discharge of juvenile offenders.”  In addition to the income received from the 40,000 acres of land set aside for its maintenance, the institution is supported by regular appropriations by the State Legislature.

A farm of two hundred acres, maintained in connection with the school, is equipped with necessary agricultural implements, vehicles, horses, cattle, hogs, poultry, etc.

The Idaho Industrial Training School is not a place of punishment, but a school in which the physical, mental, and moral education of the child is systematically looked after.  It is the plan to have the children leave the institution with a good common school education, with good habits, and in fact with every requisite for good citizenship.

Idaho Insane Asylum.—­The Idaho Insane Asylum is located at the city of Blackfoot on a tract of land comprising twenty-one hundred acres.  A large part of this farm is under cultivation and forms an important source of supplies for the institution.  In connection with the farm is maintained a large dairy herd, horses, sheep, hogs, and poultry.  A well-kept garden of thirty acres furnishes all the vegetables needed by the inmates and employees of the institution.  Most of the work done in connection with the farm, garden, dairy, etc., is done by the inmates.  The climate, the water supply, and the general surroundings are especially healthful, as is shown by the medical superintendent, who says, in his report of 1906:  “There is not a single case of that bane of asylum existence—­tuberculosis—­among them.  This is undoubtedly due to the climatic conditions here rather than anything else.”

A branch asylum was located at Orifino in 1905.

Idaho State Penitentiary.—­The Idaho State Penitentiary is located at Boise and is the only penal institution in the State.  There are twenty-five buildings in all that are used by and belong to the institution, nearly all of which have been erected since Idaho became a state.  These buildings are located on a tract of five hundred and twenty acres of land just east of the city.  About eighty acres of land under cultivation are under the management of the institution and all the labor is done by the convicts.  The penitentiary maintains a most excellent library which is free to all the prisoners.