Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-12-04
ROYAL c.. JOHNSON IN BIENNIAL
REPORT MAKES NUMEROUS
Recommendations.
OTHER ITEMS Of INTEREST
From the Capital City, the Various
State Institutions and from
Many Different Parts OF
the Sunshine State.

<AtSSi ~
tention to 60 discrepancies and insult
| hcient statute, and out of the 60 rec
concentrations the legislature of 1913
made the suggested changes IN 40 OF
the cases called to their attention. m
his report for the past biennia PERIOD
he has carried out the same pollcy,
and has called attention to numerous
deficiencies in existing statutes, anu
several new regulations to meet ex-
isti conditions, these findings be-
ing based on what he has found IN
queries coming to his department., and
deficiencies found in cases brought TO
his attention in the actual work OF the
department., and by states attorneys
who reported the same. Among the
suggestions in the forthcoming re-
port are
Legislation exempting public prop
erty from local taxes; more power to
enforce rulings on the part of the state
live stock sanitary board; payment
for horses killed on account of their
being affected with dourine; changes
of tax laws in regard to dates Of sale
and publications, to compare with the
act of the last session changing dates
at which taxes become delinquent;
remedy for the confusion which exists
from allowing road taxes to be paid
in labor by vote of the residents of a
townships; amendment of the consti-
tuition specially providing for state
paying for road improvement on high
ways abutting on state lands; better
bridge contract laws; allowing state
hoplc fo or he oriho for cfnok in tho
federal reserve banks; add gas driven
threshers to the bond provisions for
steam threshing outfits; providing a
penalty for failure of counties and
towns to pay fees of executive account
ant; increasing number of inhabitants
and petitioners for county organiza-
ton; specific regulations for profits of
handlers of school books; repeal of
the tree bounty act as of doubtful con-
s~titutionality; a comprehensive stat
ute relative to weights and measures
and inspection of same; more specific
provisions in regard to payments of
motheTs' pensions in case of divorced
women; legislation as to rights of dis
charging ewage into public waters
of the state; requiring funds received
t1SSJlSSS ~ NC LII llSu
into state treasury every 80 days in
stead of annually; better regulations
in regard to method of organization of
counties; allowing petty offenders
to be sentenced to labor ON the streets
and highways.
Honors 500th Student.
Aberdeen.-The 499 students now in
the upper departments of the North
ern Normal and Industrial school, ex-
elusive of the training department,
with the faculty, held a celebration in
honor of the advent of the 5OOth stu
dent. The student who brought the
enrolment up to the 500 mark is Miss
Helen Bassett, daughter of J. G. Bas-
sett, president of the Aberdeen Ma
tional bank and South Dakota director
Of the Minneapolis regional reserve
bank. The 400 students marched down
town, giving their school yells and car
rying banners commemorative of the
event, and singing a song: IN. N. I.
Sail hail." especially composed for
the occasion by Professor H. Howard
Bigger, of the normal faculty. Spe-
cial exercises commemorative of the
60Oth enrolment will be held on Janu-
airy 5, when the students return from
the holiday vacation, and ar address
will be given by DR.. Charles F. Koch
Ter, first president of the school, now
of Winona, MINI.
Room for Improvement.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that the "
erage individual cow production in
South Dakota is only $50 pounds of
butter per year, and since we know
that it is possible by a better under
standing of breeding and feeding to
increase this production to an average
of more than twice that amount, there
is a large field for improvement which
will result in greater profits in he
dairy business. Our quality Of cream
could also be greatly improved if there
were a more general understanding by
the producers as to the benefits to be
! derived by extra care in handling and
in caring for it. Such information
can he obtained by writing to the state
dairy expert at Bookings, who is also
working in conjunction with the State
Dairymen's association in improving
conditions in the dairy business.