The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
rive Million Dollars Can Be Saved by
Farmers to Help Feed Country by
Oisinfecting Seed, State Elk ,
pertinent Expert Says.
st. Paul.

fund left $1,432, $50 to be divided. This
division was made under the new
road law by committee made up OF
Commissioner Babcock, State Auditor
]. A. 0. Preus and State Treasurer
Henry Rines.
Divided Among Counties.
Allotments to the counties follow:
$40, 000-Chisago and Pine.
$30,0OO-Hennepin, Ramsey and st.
Louis.
$40, 000-Beltrami, Blue Earth, Da.
kota, Itasca, Otter Tail and Stearns.
$19,500-Sherburne
$19,OOO-Cass. Polk and Winona.
$18,500-Goodhue.
|. $18,00O-Aitkin.
$17,000-Carlton, Olmsted and Rem
vile.
$16,500 = Mower, Redwood and
Washington.
$16,325-LeSueur.
$16,0O0-Becker, Brown, Faribault,
Fillmore, Jackson, Martin, Morrison
and Rice.
15,5OO-Anoka, Cook, Freedom.
Lyon and Mobiles.
$15,075-Benton.
15,000-Carver, Crow Wing, Mar
shall, Murray and Steele.
$14,750-Yellow Medicine.
$14,500-Lake and Mcleod.
$14,325-Each of 40 remaining coun-
ties not listed above.
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Crop Loss PreventabIe.
Five million dollars worth of Min
nesota crops can be saved this year
to help feed the country during the
period of food shortage, which is sure
to come next winter, if the farmers
of the state will treat their seed for
the smuts of wheat, oats, barley and
rye. DR.. E. G. Stakman of the Mime
sofa experiment station, specialist in
plant pathology, says the annual loss
to Minnesota's farms through the
smuts named amounts to not less
than $5,0OO,00O.
This is practically a preventable
loss,'' he said. 1T can be largely pre-
vented by disinfecting all seed with
formaldehyde. This, however, will not
prevent the loose smuts of wheat and
barley. For these smuts the hot wa
ter treatment must be used and these
aSe described in Minnesota Bulletin
1872. Information concerning them
can be had also by writing to the Sec
ton of plant pathology, University
farm, st. Paul.
State Tax Levy Higher.
The state tax levy for all purposes
for 1918 will be 5.7s mills, compared
with 81 mills for this year, according
to statement prepared by the state
auditor. The increase is in the reve-
nue. fund item, from 1 mill to 80
mills, and there is one small offset,
as the levy for the educational build
ing fund ends with this year.
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Appropriates $23,ss7, 329.92.
The 1917 Legislature appropriated
$5,990,782.97 more than the Legisla-
ture of 1915, according to statement
prepared by State Auditor Preus. The
appropriations made in 1915 totaled
$17,876,546.97. Those made at this
session total 1885,, 1892. Schools
claim by far the largest amount of
the appropriations.
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"BIue Sky" Law Effective July 1.
State officers who constitute the
new state securities commission are
preparing to undertake the task of
examining stock and bond issues Of
fered for sale in Minnesota, when the
"blue sky" law takes effect, July 1.
1t has been signed by Governor ]. A.
A. Burnquist.
305 Fires During March.
There were 305 fires in Minnesota,
resulting in $472,535 property losses,
during March, according to reports
made public by Robert w. Hargadine,
state fire marshal Losses of $415, 759
from 290 fires are shown in similar
reports for the corresponding month
last year.
VaSaIy Attacks New Law.
Charles e. Vasaly, member of the
board of control and board Of parole,
in statement deplores enactment OF
the bill amending the indeterminate
sentence law, to permit trial judges
to fix maximum sentences. The bill
has been signed. "The measure" said
Mr.. Vasaly, practically destroys the
indeterminate sentence principle and
puts in its place that of compensation
for crime by time. 1t is the first modi
fication to be adopted by any state
having the indeterminate sentence
plan.
To codify Game and Fish Laws.
Minnesota's game and fish laws will
be redrafted into a general codified
statute for adoption by the next legis
lature, under bill by A. M. Peterson
of Coleraine, providing for an interim
commission to do the work.
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Names SibIey Road Body,
The General Sibley Memorial High
way commission was appointed by
Governor Burnquist after he had
signed resolution passed by the
Legislature at the close of the re
cent session creating it.