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Cox families. In each of these families are to be found de- 
fectives not in school. 
In the Buntin School of Township 8 are to be found 5 de- 
fectives out of a total of 22 pupils. The school also is in a 
rough, unfertile district of the county where ambitious people 
would not care to live. 
In the Upper Mill Creek School of Township 9 are 4 feeble- 
minded children out of a total enrollment of 11. 
There is a great difference in the number of defectives 
found in those schools located in good farming districts as 
compared with such schools as have been mentioned. In only 
3 schools in fertile districts is there to be found more than 
one feeble-minded child per school. These are children of 
farm tenants who for the most part have come from families 
of the kind found in the unprogressive neighborhoods. Ex- 
amples of this are found in the Kell School where the Evans 
children are to be found and in the Hays children of the 
Green School. 
Except the children mentioned above, there are few de- 
fectives to be found in those country districts where there are 
well-kept farms which are necessarily managed by men and 
women of ability. There are 14 schools in the midst of 
good farming land which have no defectives at all and 14 
others have only 1 per school. Of these, 7 are related to de- 
generate groups, the most of whom are still in the hills. In 
Township 10 there are only 2 feeble-minded children and 1 
of these has strayed in from a degenerate group in a neigh- 
boring township. 
In looking for the cause of the large number of defectives 
in some of the schools, it was found that often not only were 
the children closely related, thus receiving an inferior inheri- 
tance from a common source, but that many of the defectives 
in one school were related to the defectives in the adjoining 
school. For example, the Davis settlement is midway between 
Chestnut Ridge, Davis Creek, the Buntin and the Lower Mill 
Creek Schools. In each of these school districts are to be 
found the descendants of the Davis who originally settled in 
the county. There are 3 children in this group in the Chest- 
nut Ridge School, 3 in Davis Creek, 3 in the Buntin, 2 in the 
Lower Mill Creek, and 2 in the Rockton Schools who are 
feeble-minded. Besides these there are a number of others 
