The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26
STATE BOARD TO
IMPROVE FARMS:
COMMISSION IN CHARGE OF WORK
UNDER AMENDMENT NO. I
MAKES PLANS.
TO ATTRACT NEW SETTLERS
Experiments on Forty-Acre Tracts to
Be Made Without Waiting for
Purchasers to Appear-$100,oo 900
Available August 1.

Purchasers to Appear-$1O0,0o0
Available August I.
st. Paul.
The state commission in charge of
the Improvement and sale OF state
lands to settlers under Constitutional
Amendment No. 1, adopted at the last
election, will not wait for purchasers
to appear before beginning the work
of improvement. The plan of the
commission is to get the work of set
Element started early by making the
places attractive to purchasers and en-
abling them to go on the land at once.
Desirable forty-acre tracts Of land
will be selected, and on each will be
erected one small building. On one
a house will be built on another a
barn, and on third sleeping quar-
ters.
1t is also figured that larger first
payments can be obtained in this
revolving fund.
August /, when the board meets to
arrange for the experiment, fund OF
100000 will be available.
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Rains Insure Bumper Crops.
AS a result of heavy rains in many
counties of Minnesota, q bumper crop,
| including a heavy yield of alfalfa, hay
and other grain is assured, according
| to reports received from seventeen
counties. These indicate that the Co.
pher state is to help materially to meet
| the desire of the nation for a record
crop.
A call for farm labor: to help care
| for the yield has been received by
Fred D. Sherman, state commissioner
of immigration. Heavy enlisting in
the farming communities is believed to
be responsible for the shortage of men.
| Prospects for a heavy yield of po-
tatoes are held out by experts who
recently returned from a crop tour.
Corn has been retarded by the rain
and cool weather in certain counties
Of the state but the reports are op"
timistic for this product if the TEN"
perature rises.
Child Plague Victims Treated.
About 300 infantile paralysis VIC
tins have been treated by the clinic
held under the auspices of the State
Board of Health, according to DR.. Will
lard P. Greene of Minneapolis, in
charge of the work. Many of the per-
sons, all suffering from the effects Of
the disease, have come to st. Paul
from widely separated parts of the
state. No date has beer set for the
close of the clinic, and it is probable
that it will remain in St. Paul for
some time.
Grain Waste Warning Out.
A. G. Clausen, secretary of the Min
nesota Railroad and Warehouse com.
mission, has issued a warning in the
interest of the national food conser-
walton plan to all inspectors of grain
to exercise particular care about losses.
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Minnesota to Win the War.
Upon Minnesota more than any 9th.
er state in the Union depends success
full prosecution of the war against Ger.
many, declared Ambrose Tighe, coun-
sci for the State Public Safety COM
mission, as he defended the commits
sion against the attack Of a Minneap.
oils saloonkeeper upon the commits
sion's authority to issue war order
No. 7.
To Confer on Rural Education.
Educators, business men and the
~r%b
western states have been invited to
attend conference on rural education
and rural life at the Minnesota State
Agricultural! college, beginning We'd
nesday, August 20, and continuing for
three days. Governor Burnquist has
been asked to make an address,.
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Senator Gardner Hears U. S. Call.
State Senator George H. Gardner of
Brainerd is the first member Of the
upper house of the Minnesota Legis-
lature to answer the nations call for
men. He has applied for admission
to the second officers training camp.
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Gives Up Hope of Federal Aid.
The State Board of Control has
abandoned hope of assistance from
Federal authorities in obtaining fuel
for the state institutions and is buy
ing coal wherever it can be obtained.
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Child Welfare Conference.
The new child welfare laws will be
discussed at the next quarterly con-
ference of the officers of the state in
stitutions, to be held at the state re-
formatory in St. Cloud August Z.
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Committee Plans Food Probe.
Governor Burnquist announces that
definite plan of procedure in the
proposed investigation Of Minnesota
prices of food and fuel by special
committee appointed by him pursuant
E.