The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-02-05
Senate Committee Do Favor the
Agricultural Institutions.
DESlGNATES THEIR LOCATIONS
Located at Dodge Center, Window,
Foley, Marshall and Hutchinson;
May Cost $50, 900 Each.

st. Paul. Feb. 3.-Fiye new agrlcul-
tural schools will be recommended ny
the senate committee on agriculture
and horticulture, in committee Dill
providing for schools to be located at
Dodge Center, Window, Foley, Mar
shall and Hutchinson. 1t is probable
that the schools will cost 100000 each.
There are already three agricultural
schools in the state, and 1t is the III
tention of the committee ultimately TO
establish one in each congressional
district in order to secure federal ala
for the schools.
After an extended hearing on Sen
ator ]. w. Wrights bill requiring the
tuberculin testing of all dairy cattle
in the state the senate. committee on
dairy products agreed to recommend
the bill to pass with an amendment
as to the time the measure is to take
effect.
Under the present law, cattle OF the
state NAV be tested and are required
to be in the larger and some OF the
smaller cities. c. ]. Swanson OF Frld-
lev. chairman of a committee to look
into the tuberculin test, brought In
report several days ago signed by MN
self alone, intimating that the tuDer-
culin test failed to reveal tuberculosis
as claimed.
1t was shown by reports at the hear
ing that the unsupported cattle which
Senator Swanson caused to be placed
in a lot of condemned animals were
condemned for erlaciation and not
tuberculosis, as was intimated in his
report to the legislature.
Interfere With the Test.
Statements were made by several of
the veterinarians that the poorer class
of farmers often interfere with the
efficiency of the test by injecting their
cattle before visit Of veterinarian
A normal school in the northern
part of the state is in sight. The
senate committee decided to recon-
mend that a school be established. If
the house agrees, a committee Will be
appointed, composed of four senator's
and five representatives, to determine
which of six towns shall have the
school: Bemidji, Thief River Falls,
Park Rapids, Cass Lake, Wadena and
Warren. The house is deadlocked on
the general bill and the Cass Lake To-
cation.
Professor j. A. Hay of Thief River
Falls, Professor A. P. Richie and K.
E. Mcdonald of Bemidji spoke for the
general bill. They showed that a ter
ritory as large as the combined area
of New Jersey, Connecticut, Massa
ohusetts, Rhode Island and Delaware,
with 100000 people, $4,000 school
children and 1000 teachers Is without
normal school facilities. Only per
cent of the teachers have any normal
school training as opposed to 60 per
cent of the whole state.
The sale of green pears, bananas,
hay and apples and all other vegeta-
bles and fruit by the pound instead of
measure is contemplated in bill by
J. w. Pauly of Minneapolis introduced
in the senate.
The judiciary committee will recon-
mend Senator Sullivan's bill for a
legislative reference bureau to pass.
This will be in charge of the attor-
ney general.
To Investigate Prices Paid for Wheat.
Representative N. ]. Holmberg of
Renville introduced and had passed a
resolution for a committee to investi-
gate the prices paid for velvet chat
wheat. His resolution said that the
buyers pay to 10 cents less for this
wheat than for blue stem and grind
1t into -four which sells for the same
price as other flour.
T. J. Brady of st. Paul introduced
a resolution to have the governor and
staff, seven representatives and five
senators go to Washington for the in
auguration of Taft. The house joked
with the resolution a while and then
buried it in the rules committee.
A bill requiring judges of the SUI
preme, district and municipal courts
to report to the legislature any errors
or incongruities in the laws of the
state was the most radical among the
bills introduced in the house. An
drew Anderson of Lakeland was the
author.
Carl Wallace of Minneapolis offered
a bill appropriating 100000 for site
and building for the library and mu-
scum of the state historical society.
Other bills were one by C. J. Swend-
sen of st. James for the appointment
of dairy Inspector in cities of 10000
or less; one by the same author re-
quiring an annual inspection of thu
books of off GERS of cities of the fourth
class, the examination to be made by
the public examiner when requested
and paid for by the county; bill by
Henry Rines OF Moro providing for
the separate assessment of surface
rights, rights to minerals and coal and
oil rights when there is separate own
ership, and bill by j. ]. Opsahl VI
Bemidji, which provides that petitions
fer the change of county seats shall
be sent to the secretary of state in
stead of the county board.