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Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system (1910) (14593133219)
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Title: Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Knorr, George Washington United States. Office of Experiment Stations United States. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Statistics
Subjects: Rural schools Schools, Centralization
Publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
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msted County, Minn., was selected hj the writer for tentativeredistricting into consolidated districts in such manner as might bedone under the county-option law, and the suggested plan is shown infigure 20. PROJECTED CONSOLIDATION IN OL)SESTED COUNTY, MINX. Area, Gidt square miles: population in 1905, 22,409; number of ruraldistrict schools, 139: graded schools, 3. Ohnsted County is situated in probably the most fertile section ofsoutheastern Minnesota. Farming is diversified. Grain is the prin- <^ The law seems to need amendment, so that each designated district maychoose its own time for consolidation.No. 232 72 cipal crop. The barley crop is in the lead as to acreage; oats is secondin importance. Much attention is paid to sheep feeding, and dairy-ing is developing. Price of farm land (1908) ranges between $35and $75, averaging about $45 per acre. The county is rolling, but hilly or broken along water courses. Theroads are chiefly dirt roads. Avell graded and ditched. With state
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Fig. 20.—Map of Olmsted County, Minn., illustratinjj a tentative plan of consolidation. The heavy lines are the boundaries of the proposed consolidated districts. The lightlines are township lines. The location of the proposed consolidated school buildings isshown by the conventional symbol, and to assist in comparisons the locations of the pres-ent district, graded, and high schools are also indicated. The numbers before G. and H. S. denote probable enrolment in grades and high school, respectively, in the pro-posed consolidated schools. Under this project, the present 142 graded and district schools would be replaced by 21strong, well-attended consolidated schools. It will be noted that for Districts XII and XX,Rochester and Stewartsville, respectively, consolidated schools at a distance from town aresuggested for the rural pupils. With the exception of these two schools all others in thecounty are replaced by consolidated schools. The Roman numerals apply to the numberof the prop
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