The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-02-28
New Buildings and Alterations for
Agricultural and Experiment
Farm Provided for In Bill.
GIRLS VALUED LESS THAN PIGS
So Declares Mrs. Perry Starkweather
Who Sounds white Slave" Warn
ing In Labor Bureau Report.
(By z. A. Wi1son)
Bemidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau

oe04OJ4 x1OA0SC Ae&1B46C1Ve bureau
St. Paul, Feb. 2S.-Appropriation
amounting to more $4,000 are pro-
vided for the State Agricultural
school and Northwest Experiment
farm at Crookston in bills now be-
fore the senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, Senator Saugstad intro
ducing the measure in the upper
and Representative Holten in the
lower house.
THE bill, which was referred in
each house to the committee on ap-
preparations, provides for new build
ings, many alterations, improvements
and the cost of maintenance for the
two years at $4,000 a year for the
School of Agriculture and $4,000 a
year for the Experiment farm.
AC lCoSu1S app OpI 1lICo luO1OS
for the present year to be used in
erecting at the School of Agriculture
new buildings for "dwelling for
dairymen, poultrymen, gardner, hor-
ticulturist and janitor at a cost Of
$4,000; central heating, lighting
and power plant at cost of $50, 900
and $4,000 for the erection in 1912
ofo a science, class and laboratory
building.
The list of alterations and repairs
for the Agricultural school includes
an addition to the Industrial school,
$4,000; alteration on school build
ing $1,000; addition to superintend-
ent's dwelling, 5000, a total of s12,-
900. The bill provides that this
money shall be available during the
present year.
Further appropriations for the
present year for the Agricultural
school include such items as grading,
curbing and sidewalks, grading for
spur track, waterworks, trees and
shubbery at a total cost of $4,000.
Well drilling and casting and
pump and motor for same-work to
be done lat once is another item
down at a proposed cost of $1,000.
Alterations and repairs are pro-
posed as follows at the Experiment
farm:
Addition to the dairy farm, ST.
500; foundation and repairs fol-
horse farm, $4,000; sheep fold, ST.
500; silo, $500; poultry houses, ad-
dition and alteration, $4,000; farm
house, $500, making a total OF
$4,000. Incidentals for the farm
are listed as follows:
Painting, fences and bridges (fou1
at $500 total $1,000.
x x x
That pigs are more valuable thar
girls in Minnesota" is the assertion
of Mrs Perry Starkweather, in charge
of the woman's department of the
State Labor Bureau, in a report just
made by that bureau to Governor
Eberhart.
I'VE hire men to guard our live
stock" says Mrs. Starkweather':
part of the report, and leave ou1
girls to be ruined. Despite this ant
although the wages paid in Mime
sofa to girls are alarmingly low
averaging from 81 to 81 a week, thu
working girls, as a class are highl!
moral and pure
MIS-. Quar- w CdCucl GALLO oLICAIAO1
to the temptations which continual!
beset girls in Minneapolis, st. Pau
and Duluth and declares there is ur
gent need for white slave regula
ton. She says that 100 daily CONF
to St. Paul and Minneapolis in search
of employment.
XXX
Colonel Harrison White, membe
of the house from Luverne, and vet
eran of the Civil War, has bill il
authorizing county boards to appro
pirate not to exceed $500 for tn
purpose of ''aiding the proper observ