CHAPTER I 

 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS 



Lands, buildings and equipment 



The official inventory taken in October, 1915, gives a total invest- 

 ment in the school of $345,963.84. There are 206 acres of land, 

 four main instruction buildings besides the dairy barn, and $40,000 

 worth of equipment. 



The buildings are more than sufficient to fill the needs of the school. 

 Class rooms and laboratories are used but 32% of the time during the 

 school day. The smallest room can, with but few exceptions, hold 

 the largest classes. The school could very well have gotten along if 

 two fewer buildings had been built. 



Equipment is equally lavish. The statement that it rivals that of 

 many an agricultural college is borne out by observation and study of 

 the equipment inventory. Tho teaching children of secondary school 

 age ,and preparation, the equipment would be equally well adapted 

 for college students, and is far beyond that included on the average 

 farm. 



The expenditures for equipment have been made with little thought 

 of amount of use to which purchases would be put, actual need for 

 them, or the pupils for whom they were to be used. There is one cow 

 for every five boys enrolled. There is one class room or laboratory 

 room in the four main buildings for every seven pupils enrolled. The 

 total school investment is nearly $3,000 per pupil in average daily at- 

 tendance. 



School records 



School records are not adequate to give definite information on many 

 school activities. Extension work can scarcely be even estimated 

 either in time spent or in cost. Enrollment statistics, course statistics, 

 room schedules, are only partly available. Cost figures of all kinds 

 are in very bad form. The profit and loss, for example, on the farm 

 could only be determined after much computation. The superintend- 



