River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-20

Cranberrles 81 339 Y S04
Glover seed. 1853, 81
Timothy seed as $50
Prokuct Of 1879 Pounds Grooming IL lss0-4ere.
Flax. II. 597, $50 A 451
Hops. ....... 667 6I2 s. l73
| Tobacco. 800. 9 $50 954 II 35s
Butter ..22, 703 $40
Cheese ......16, 407, Jas
NO. OF COWS e.. ~, .,....... 800 4S4
invite particular attention to the
items Of flax and tobacco. These
crops have been cultivated for suffic-
lent number Of years TO satisfy even
the most skeptical that the soil Of
Wisconsin Is peculiarly adapted to
their successful growth. The yield of
| fax Is sufficient, it would seem, to JUS
| tify the erection Of mills for It's manu-
| facture, particularly as it is quite obvi-
| Gus that an assured market for the
| straw would materially increase the
| acreage devoted to that crop. Those
| who have investigated the subject as
sure me that all the conditions necessa-
ry to the successful manufacture of
liner Of all descriptions are found in
| Wisconsin, and ! am persuaded that
flax culture and manufacturing offer
very promising fields for the invest
ment Of capital Tobacco culture has
hitherto been confined to small por-
ton of the state, but it has already as
sumed large proportions as a CONNER
cial factor. The value Of the crop har-
vested in 1880, will reach nearly or
| quite a million and half Of dollars,
and the time is not far distant when it
will be expedient to provide proper
legal forms for assuring the markets Of
the world Of the grade and quality Of
| Wisconsin, grown tobacco.
also invite your attention to the fact,
not appearing in these statistics, that
considerable quantities of the improved
varieties Of sugar cane are being raised
1T Wisconsin, and that the results of
recent experiments tend to show that
| excellent syrup and sugar can be oh
tanned tberefrom. Efficient and prac-
ticable n ethods for manufacturing the
syrup ana crystalizing the sugar, so
that the product may have uniform
| commercial standing and value, remain
to be discovered, and if you can aid in
accomplishing this, the resulting bene-
| fits viii be Of great public utility.
| commend to your most careful con
sideratlon the paragraph in the report
| of the Secretary Of State concerning
statistics. Much has been done under
the present law to evolve order and APP
proximate certainty out Of chaos and
utter unreliability, but the neglect Of a
| few officers makes the returns more or
less incomplete. 1t seems necessary,
therefore, TO modify the law by provid-
ing thatn0 officer, whose duty it is TO
| collect and make returns of statistics,
shall receive pay for any services until
| he shall produce and file proper written
evidence that he has complied with all
the provisions OF law. approve, also,
| the recommendation of the Secretary
of State, that the scope of the law
| should be enlarged SO as TO embrace
the statistics of mining, numbering and
| manufacturing, and suggest, in addition,
that lumber inspectors should be re-
CURED to forward their reports to the
| Secretary of State 10 be tabulated, con-
solidated and published, in connection
with other statistics
And withal the state should not be
content simply to gather and publish
statistics. 1t should aid in every par
ticular way in developing and utilizing
the great resources which we possess.
1t can do this, III part, most econOmi-
cally and efficiently by continuing reas-
enable appropriations to the state and
northern agricultural societies, the hor-
! ticultural society and the dairymen's
association and there may properly
be added to the list. such other socie-
ties as shall devote themselves to de-
yeloping and perfecting new forms Of
industry.
GOVERNORS RESIDENCE.
1t has been my opinion for some
/ time that the state should provide an
| official residence for It's governor, and
require him 20 occupy it during his
term of Office; and as there is now an
! opportunity to purchase, upon very
reasonable terms, a furnished house
and grounds, in every way suited for
the purpose, | recommend an early
| consideration Of the subject by the leg
/ islature.
/ CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
| Amendments to section /, Of article
III, and sections 1, 5, II and q, Of
| article ~, ofthe constitution were pro-
! posed in the last legislature and agreed
| to by a majority of the members elect
| ed to each of the two houses. The
constitutional requirements necessary
! to enable this legislature to consider
| these amendments have been complied
with, and, if they shall be agreed to by
you, it viii be your duty to provide for
their submission to the people in such
| manner and at such time as you may
prescribe.
FEDERAL CENSUS AND APPORTIoNMENT.
Inasmuch as the constitution re-
quires that the legislature shall, at their
first session, after an enumeration of
the inhabitants of the state, made by
the authority Of the United States, ap-
portion and district anew the members
of the senate and assembly, according
10 the number of inhabitants, | have
requested the superintendent of the
census to furnish me an official state |
ment of the population of Wisconsin, |
by towns, villages and wards, as shown |
by the recent census, and have written /
assurance from him that such a state
ment will be supplied on or before the /
first day Of February proximo. 1t may
be expected, think, that this state
ment, when received, will afford all the
information necessary 10 enable you
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state into senate and assembly districts,
and, if congress shall agree upon an
apportionment for representatives in
congress, into congressional districts
also.
YORKTOWN CENTENNIAL.
Sometime since a movement was in
augurated looking to a celebration of
the one hundredth anniversary Of the
surrender Of Lord CORVALLIS at York
town, and the governors Of the several
states were requested to appoint com
to arrange therefor. In ac-
cordance with this request, Hon. Milo
p. Jewett, Of Milwaukee, was appoint
ed to represent Wisconsin. The ma
tional government viii take promin-
ent part in the exercises Of the occa-
sion, which will consist Of naval and
military reviews, civic professions, ora
tons, poems, and the laying OF the
corner stone Of a monument to COM
memorate the great historical event
which closed the war Of the Reyolu-
ton. A liberal appropriation has been
made by Congress, to assist in de-
fraying the necessary expenses. 1t Is
appropriate that events Of
this character should be celebrated and
u. o.,yol~- sr.vzd TO haol