274 HISTOEY OF GOODHUE COUNTY Number of male teachers 9 15 Number of female teachers 84 139 Average monthly salary of male teachers $ 120.55 $ 40.80 Average monthly salary of female teachers $ 55.50 $ 40.13 Teachers who are graduates of a high school 77 92 Teachers who are graduates of a normal school 52 16 Teachers who are graduates of a college 23 3 Teachers who have taught three years or more in the same school 28 7 Teachers who have taught two years or more in the same school 21 29 Teachers who have taught one year or more in the same school 43 104 Districts loaning text-books free 5 149 New schoolhouses 1 Total number of schoolhouses in the county 10 154 Estimated value of schoolhouses and sites' $176,000.00 $149,875.00 Estimated value of seats and desks $ 7,175.00 $ 11,037.00 Estimated value of apparatus $ 4,843.00 $ 6,656.00 Number of volumes bought for school libraries 60 997 Number of libraries 10 143 Total number of books in all libraries 6,710 14,723 Number of trees planted 186 Total indebtedness of all districts $ 27.500.00 $ 19,856.00 Number of districts included 2 18 Average length of school for next year, in months. ... 9 6.94 Average number of voters at the annual meetings. ... 34 9 Number of visits by the county superintendent 13 259 Cash on hand at the beginning of the year $ 15,138.01 $ 19,411.76 Apportionment 11,960.77 15,039.61 Special tax 49,785.02 34,791.00 Local one mill tax 4,093.00 8,319.46 Special state aid 11,200.00 6,388.00 All other sources 2,320.52 11,882.80 Total $ 94,497.92 $ 95,832.63 Teachers ' wages 49,228.58 42,866.2 1 Fuel and school supplies 4,916.96 4,981.85 Repairs and improvements 7,993.16 2,833.65 New schoolhouses and sites 2,961.26 Bonds and interest 2,s72.su 3,705.35 Library books 84.32 399.79 Text-books 1.1 3 1.77 923.14 Apparatus 122.48 276.57 Transportation of pupils 30.00 All other purposes 7,964.57 4,017.49 Cash on hand at the end of the year 20,183.28 32,837.32 Total $ 94,497.92 $ 95,832.63 Average rate of special tax in mills 12.1 4.2 Average cost for each pupil 26.33 16.58 Average cost for each day attended .18 .19 There are now 165 organized districts in the county. Of these five are city schools with first-class high schools, one is a village school employing three teachers, one employing two teachers, and one a rural school with two teachers. The others are one- room schools. There are seven districts which are joint with other counties and have their school houses outside of Goodhue county. Five schools have an enrollment of less than ten pupils, and fifty have an enrollment of from ten to twenty. During the year of 1908-09 six districts had nine months of
