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elementary schools as is the case generally in the West and 

 North. The counties are kept separate in the tabulations be- 

 cause they are apt to contain large elements both rural and 

 urban. The high schools of the small towns of 2,000 or less, 

 take on many of the characteristics of the township high schools, 

 and for the purposes of this investigation show more similarity 

 to them than to those of the cities above that figure. Table 9 

 is an attempt to display the data of the 151 comparable high 

 schools, which are distributed in the table so as to reveal better 

 their true nature. Table 10 seeks to show the relationships 

 between the enrollment of the various types of school and the 

 population of the supporting community. The numbers show 

 the high-school enrollment for each 10,000 of population, and 

 likewise the enrollment in the classes in agriculture and the 

 number reported from farm homes. It should be mentioned 

 that some latitude has been used regarding the last item. Under 

 this head many principals reported children of parents living 

 in town but owning and operating farms. Others in small vil- 

 lages report that " nearly every one gardens." Consequently 

 the term " from farm homes " more truly means those having 

 an immediate interest in agricultural occupations. The broken 

 horizontal line in Table 10, separating the communities of less 

 than 4,000 from those above, is intended to emphasize the dif- 

 ference in the upper and lower groups, and the similarity 

 between the right and left groups. 



While it seems natural to expect that the ratio of the items 

 in the third and fourth columns should rise in the schools of 

 the smaller communities, it is interesting, to say the least, to 

 note the similar rise in the ratio of the enrollment of the high 

 school itself. Whatever causes operate to lessen the ratio in 

 the larger towns will also operate in the case of the counties 

 and townships of the larger population, such as those tabulated, 

 where a large share of the population is concentrated in the 

 principal city. This is true of the one township having over 

 8,000 population, but of only one of the seven counties with 

 over 8,000, and of two of the three counties with a population 

 between 4,000 and 8.000. The remaining two are essentially 

 rural. But this seems insufficient to explain the very low ratios 



