Warren sheaf., 1913-04-03
each the men on ma farm.

reach the men on i ts;ss i'ss Z farn.
Minnesota was the flrst 70 estab-
|lish trade school Of agriculture,
with the great aim Of training far
mers for the farm. For twenty i've
years that school has been sending
out young men and women who
know how To be better citizens, to-
do better farming, and make better
farm homes.
Seventy-tWo per cent OF all the
Farm School students Of agricul-
|tlre have gone back to the farm.
The figure is increased to 80 per
cent or four-f1fths Of all. if we add.
to those who so back to the farm.
those who take up agricultural.
courses in the college or in some
other way identify themselves with
agriculture. It should be remem-
bered that these figures include not
only the students who came from
the farms. but many girls as we'll as
boys WHO come from the adjacent
twin cities. II we exclude them, we
should find that almost too per cent
OF the farm boys who come to thu
Farm School return to the farm. -
Dean AZ. II, Woods, University Farm,
st. Paul.
Economy in State Affairs.
!. The House Committee on Pdblic.
Accounts and Expenditures has in
troduced d series Of bills providing
for the consolidation Of various
state Departments in the interests
Of economy and efficiency. These.
bills will, if adopted, bring about
The transfer to the Commission
er Of Labor Of the work Of hotel in
spection, effecting a saving OF from
$4,000 to $4,000 annually.
The transfer to the Dairy and
Food Commissioner Of the Oil in.
spection service, effecting. "a saving
Of $3O, 900 annually.
The transfer to the State Forest
er of the authority and duties Of
the Game and Fish Commission,
which would save 100000 year. &.
The transfer of the Public Print
er and his work to the Board Of
Control, with large consequent
saving.
The transfer Of the custody and
care Of the Capitol to the Board of
Control, with similar results.
These are all desirable economies
as must appear to any unprejudic-
ed student Of administrative affairs.
They are in the direction Of effici-
ency as well as economy. The State
Government grows more complex
land wasteful year by year, as new
boards and commissions and de-
partments are added to it. Each
must have its retinue of inspectors
and clerks, its annually growing APP
preparations, its huge printed re-
|ports that no one reads.
Tt is not easy to reconstruct this
misfit system, because all the influ-
Ience Of politicians and patronage
brokers is against it. Propose to
abolish any of these sinecures, and
Immediately there goes up a wall Of
distress from those who hold them
and all their friends and political
patronage.
But the House Committee is set
ting about the task in the right way.
Int is not proposing a revolutionary
remodeling of the whole admins
trative system, but rather few de-
finite, well-co onsidered steps in the
right direction. Its recommends
tiOns are both logical and conserva-
tive. They would effect economies
of probably hundred and fifty
Thousand dollars a year, with a COR
responding gain in efficiency. What
more logical, for example, than that
the work of hotel inspection should
be undertaken by the same bureau
which looks after labor matters and
(which already has inspectors in the
field? The inspection Of Oil falls
NATURALLY to the Dairy and Food
Commissioner at one-half the cost.
Why should a separate department
be maintained except to supply po-
llitical patronage?
Laying Out the Garden.
If possible, the garden should be
close to or part Of a cultivated
i fiald and 60 laid ont that it%can hp