BULLETIN 825, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
figures are taken in each case for the end of the year indicated. As 
shown by the diagram, more than one-half of the buildings for which 
data are available were constructed between 1912 and 1916. 
Of the total number of buildings studied 201 are in places of 2,500 
inhabitants or less, 83 being in the open country, and 55 are in towns 
or small cities having a population of more than 2,500. Twenty-five 
are school community buildings and 29 are church community build- 
ings, 20 of the latter being in buildings separate from the church. 
Nine are farmers 7 fraternal society buildings and eight are library and 
community buildings. 
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Fig. 1.— Increase in number of rural community buildings, 1900 to 1918, according to data obtained by 
the Bureau of Markets. 
COMMUNITY BUILDINGS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO SOURCE OF FUNDS 
FOR THEIR ESTABLISHMENT. 
The amount of money invested in these buildings varies according 
to the population and wealth of the community and the method of 
financing, and ranges from $2,000 in sparsely settled communities, 
where considerable amounts of labor and materials are often donated, 
to $50,000 in the small cities. 
Based on methods of financing, the buildings may, in a general way, 
be separated into the five following classes, although, on account of 
overlapping or combination of methods, the dividing line is not always 
distinct. 
