While commissioner of public lands and buildings in nineteen seventeen and eighteen, this writer inaugurated a new policy which has been followed since, a higher valuation of school lands. The result is that nineteen twenty-one apportionment from the state is nearly two dollars per pupil for January, or a total of twenty-three hundred fifty-eight dollars and sixty cents, as compared with approximately one dollar as shown by earlier reports. In eighteen ninety it was less than eighty cents per pupil as shown by the apportionment of July fifth.

There are no consolidated districts in the county, except on the Dutch flats. Three schools, namely numbers forty-four, fortyseven, and seven, have two or m'ore teachers. The county has the county high school plan. The Harrison schools teach eight of the grades and the county high school carries it to the higher grades up to twelve. Domestic science and agriculture are taught and arrangements are under way for the benefits of the Smith-Hughes act. The Shumway act applies in the county high school. A new high school building for the county is under construction.

There are no parochial schools in Sioux county.

The first teachers' institute in Sioux county convened July twentieth, eighteen ninetyone and continued ten days. Professor N. E. Leach and wife were the instructors. The teachers in attendance were : Sarah Parsons. Minnie Smith. Will H. Davis, Eva E. Conner, Ben B. Smith. J. H. Newlin, Elsie Merriam. A. P. Babcock, Mabel Robinson, Minnie Crane, Anna Kirbey, Myrtle Zimmerman, Mrs. Sarah Shaw, Mrs. Ella Newlin, Alice Thomas, Mrs. Sadie Gilles. Mrs. J. W. Smith, and Lilly Thomas.