taken place within your county within 

 the last two years?", County Superin- 

 tendent Oscar A. Schmitt of Monroe 

 county answered "None". In answer 

 to the question, "Is there much pos- 

 sibility of future reorganizations within 

 your county?", Mr. Schmitt answered, 

 "None — under the present laws." 

 Iroquois County 



Gaunty Superintendent R. P. Roberts 

 of Iroquois county reports there have 

 been seven reorganizations in Iroquois 

 since 1940 and that the Iroquois and 

 the Donovan Community Consolidated 

 school districts have been formed in the 

 past two years. The former school 

 district comprises eight former common 

 school districts and the latter 10 former 

 districts. The Iroquois district will 

 have from 60 to 75 pupils and the 

 Donovan district will have approxi- 

 mately 135 pupils. Also District No. 

 220 in the south end of Iroquois joined 

 recently with several districts in Ver- 

 milion county to form the East Lynn 

 Consolidated District No. 6. This dis- 

 trict was organized under Section 121A 

 of the Illinois School law whereby, two 

 directors of the school board may, after 

 proper procedure, submit the question 

 to a vote in their district. 



Superintendent Roberts reports that 

 chiefly due to a shortage of good 

 teachers and the fact that many rural 

 districts are now taxing the limit, that 

 there is more than the usual interest in 

 reorganization. He reports that a num- 

 ber of meetings have been held there 

 for the purpose of discussing other re- 

 organizations and that the districts rhus 

 far voted on have received the approval 

 of a large majority of the voters. 



Marion County ■■■'/,': 



The following quotation from a let- 

 ter from Paul B. Chance, County Super- 

 intendent of Schools in Marion county, 

 pretty well explains the situation in 

 that county. 



"We have several schools that are 

 combining next year for school pur- 

 poses only, but keeping their districts 

 intact. There is a growing interest in 

 larger districts in this county, when 

 road conditions will permit, and I think 

 after the war, when we get better roads, 

 we will have many districts that will 

 want to reorganize. In Marion county 

 there is a small percentage of our 

 total roads that are all weather ones. 

 This is the one thing that keeps town- 

 ship reorganization in Marion county 

 back at this time." 



Edwards County 

 County Superintendent Virgil H. 

 Judge of Edwards county reports that a 

 few rural schools are closing and trans- 

 porting their pupils to other schools, 

 which step may lead to some future 

 reorganization of districts. Superin- 



WHAT'S YOUR SCORE? 



How well are you informed on 

 farm affairs? Test yourself on the 



?[uestions below. Each question is 

 ollowed by three answers. Select 

 the one which you think is correct. 

 Compare your selection with the 

 correct answers. Allow yourself 

 10 points for each correct answer. 

 Add your score. 



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1. The average butt erf at content of milk 

 is about: 



3% 4% 5% \: ::..:-. 



2. A bushel of shelled corn weighs: 



56 lbs. 60 lbs. 70 lbs. 



3. The parity price per bushel for corn 

 is: 



91c $1.01 $1.11 



4. Illinois Farm Bureau members or- 

 ganized the Illinois Agricultural Mu- 

 tual Insurance Company in 1927. // 

 supplies farmers wi'h: 



Auto insurance Fire insurance 

 Life insurance 



5. Of each 100 Farm Bureau members 

 driving cars, about how many will 

 have an accident this year? 



10 20 30 



6. U. S. cash farm income for 1944 

 was about: 



20 million dollars 2 billion dollars 

 20 billion dollars 



7. Over a period of years 100 lbs. of 

 live hogs are equal in value to how 

 much corn? 



12 bushels 15 bushels 

 20 bushels 



8. The serum and virus required to 

 vaccinate a 35 pound pig against 

 cholera costs about: 



10c 30c $1 



9. The offices of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association are located at: 



Springfield Urbana Chicago 

 10. Mastitis is a serious disease of: 

 Poultry Dairy Cows Hogs 

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tendent Judge also states that a county 

 school survey might give valuable re- 

 sults in Edwards county. 



Paul, Conklin, now serving his sec- 

 ond term as president of the State As- 

 sociation of County Superintendents, 

 states that there have been no school 

 district reorganizations in Winnebago 

 county during the past two years and 

 that he has not discovered any possi- 

 bility of future reorganizations there. 

 He recalls that Winnebago pioneered 

 in consolidation, Seward, established in 

 1903, being the first consolidation in 

 the state. Then followed Kishwaukee, 

 New Milford, Harlem, and Argyle, 

 then Winnebago, Burritt, and Harri- 

 son. Mr. Conklin, along with a rep- 

 resentative of the lAA, was asked to 

 attend a county meeting of school 

 board members in Winnebago county 

 on June 7, the purpose being to dis- 

 cuss school problems and reorganiza- 

 tion needs in that county. 

 Cook County 



County Superintendent Noble J. 

 Puffer, Cook county, reported three 

 reorganizations in Cook county within 

 the last two years. District No. 1 ex- 

 tending over into Kane and McHenry 

 counties now enrolls 154 pupils in one 

 district instead of six and is steadily 

 growing because of the better educa- 

 tional program and transportation pro- 

 vided. Mr. Puffer reports no lower- 

 ing of taxes there since the program 



there is a broader one including music, 

 art and band. Also districts 32, 33 and 

 34 have been combined into one district 

 with 557 pupils. This new district pro- 

 vides for transportation, music and art 

 courses, and a strong physical educa- 

 tion program, including the use of a 

 fine gymnasium. A third reorganiza- 

 tion combines districts 62 and 65, 

 which resulted in an enrollment of 

 1347 pupils. All reorganizations took 

 place under Section 84-A of Circular 

 308 of the Illinois School Law. Mr. 

 Puffer said that it was his understand- 

 ing that the people in the first two re- 

 organizations were much better pleased 

 with the added facilities made available 

 to their boys and girls than the last 

 one. He thinks that additional reor- 

 ganizations will grow out of a program 

 of education and as a result of an in- 

 creased availability of transportation. 

 The lAA and its department of rural 

 school relations appreciates the coop- 

 eration of the county superintendents 

 in supplying us with this information. 

 A brief discussion of the status of 

 school reorganization in other counties 

 will follow in subsequent issues and we 

 hope the information on the number of 

 districts being combined, the enroll- 

 ments, the legal procedure, the addi- 

 tional opportunities offered, the reac- 

 tion of the public to the new programs, 

 and the probable effect on the tax rates 

 will be of value to interested readers. 



lULY-AUGUST. 1945 



