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no way influences the annual expenditure, how- 

 ever, which in recent years has been over 

 $16,000,000. This is raised largely by local 

 taxation. 



As in every state with a large rural popula- 

 tion there have been difficult problems, but 

 they have for the most part been met, and 

 the amended compulsory education law, which 

 declares that every child between the ages of 

 seven and sixteen must be in school at least 

 twenty-four consecutive weeks in each year, 

 has resulted in increased attendance in the com- 

 mon schools. Besides the grammar schools 



Other schools and colleges are so numerous 

 that it is impossible to list them here, but 

 among the most important are Charles City 

 College at Charles City, Coe College at Cedar 

 Rapids; Des Moines College and Drake Uni- 

 versity at Des Moines; Grinnell College at 

 Grinnell; Upper Iowa University at Fayette; 

 Cornell College at Mount Vernon; Central 

 University at Pella, and Morningside College 

 at Sioux City. Most of these are maintained 

 by various religious denominations. 



Iowa's Prairies. Iowa might with even more 

 justice than Illinois be called the "Prairie 



IOWA 



SCALE OF MILES 



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OUTLINE MAP OF IOWA 



Showing the boundaries of the state, principal rivers and cities, location of coal mines, lead, etc., 

 and the highest point of land. 



there were at the beginning of 1916 over 800 

 high schools, and many private secondary 

 schools, as well as normals. The state has 

 given careful attention to teacher-training, 

 appropriating, in 1911, $50,000 annually for the 

 introduction of normal classes in the high 

 schools. At the head of the school system is 

 the state superintendent of public instruction, 

 and each county has its own superintendent. 



The three state institutions of higher learn- 

 ing are Iowa State University at Iowa- City; 

 the State College of Agricuhure and Mechanic 

 Arts at Ames; and Iowa State Teachers Col- 

 lege at Cedar Falls; and these are under the 

 management of a state board of education. 



State," for everywhere is the open, rolling 

 country with its long, low swells and broad, 

 shallow valleys. The average elevation is 

 somewhat over 1,000 feet; the slope, so gentle 

 as to be almost imperceptible, is from the 

 northwest to the southeast. In O'Brien County, 

 near the northwestern corner of the state, is 

 the highest point, with an altitude of about 

 1,800 feet; and at Keokuk, in the extreme 

 southeast, is the lowest point, but 494 feet 

 above sea level. The prairie country is broken 

 occasionally by sharp outstanding hills, but 

 Iowa has no great diversity of surface, its only 

 rough, craggy features being supplied by the 

 bluffs along its rivers. 



