The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-14
Forces at Work to Make
Minnesota's Farm Life
the Best in the World

WHICH Is TO conserve MlnneSOta'S TO-
OO0,OOO,000 feet of merchantable tim
Der in order to encourage the build.
ing up of great woodworking indus
tries and centers which shall become
markets for Minnesota's farm prod
ucts.
The game and fish commission,
which, by protecting Minnesota's wild
lie, hopes to add immensely to the
present 100000 annual income from
this resource.
The drainage commission and rec
lamation board, which will open up
new and fertile areas for thrifty and
energetic farmers.
The live stock sanitary board.
which was created to protect Mime.
sofas live stock against all forms of
disease, and has again and again
proved it's worth.
The state entomologist, whose duty
1t is to eliminate pests which afflict
men, live stock, or crops.
The state highway commission and
the railway and warehouse commits
sion both seeking to promote econom-
lca1 transportation, one by building
and improving public roads, and the
other by seeing that the public is we'll
served by it's great shipping interests.
The tax commission, which is wres-
thing with the difficult problem of pro-
Vldlng for the states financial needs
without imposing an oppressive load
upon the public.
Health, Also, Carefully Guarded.
With all the educational opportuni-
ties and with all the assistance Of
fered In the development of re-
sources, Minnesota's effort to build
up strong rural life would fall short
OF its obligation if it neglected the
problems of rural health, but these
are amply provided for in the state
board of health, which is not only
serving to educate the people in rural
places as to sanitation and the pre-
vention of disease, but is waging &C.
tive and energetic warfare against
the spread of disease so far as it can.
Supplementing the work of this board
is that of the Minnesota Public Health
association, a voluntary organization
which is doing effective work for the
education of the people as to matters
of personal and public health.
Activities Well Co-ordinated.
The splendid thing about this elab-
crate machinery for the development
| of Minnesota's agriculture and rural
| life, is that all the parts work in har-
mony, supplementing the labors of
one another and making definite
progress.
1t Is no wonder then that the states
board of immigration, a thoroughly
efficient agency for the peopling of
Minnesota's open country, has been
remarkably successful in securing
settlers. Its problem has been to tell
| effectively the facts about Mime
sofas resources and the efforts being
made to aid Minnesota's people to
get the most out of such resources.
This 1t has solved in thorough-g going
manner by judicious advertising and
the personal contact of it's commits
sioner with the people of other states.
A Future Of Great Promise.
Minnesota's future, then, shines
with promise because it Is building
it's basic industry en- sound principles,
giving people to the rural places and
to the people Of the rural places an
opportunity
To make good living from the
soil.
To rear their families carefully and
To be Of service to their communi.
ties. -.
And, in the end, to leave life and
their acres richer than when they
took possession. ia. :. !. z.s sis.. A,