Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-17
MARKETING BILLS
ARE UP FOR ACTION
Skogmo Measure Recommended
for Passage.
BEFORE SENATE WEDNESDAY
Bill VIII Create Director to Solve Mar.
ketlng ProbIems-State May Sup
ply Dynamite to Settlers
at Cost.
BY FRED L. HOLMES.

MaU1SOu, April 1O.-Ine Dig UguL
In the lower house Of the Wisconsin
Legislature this week will be over the
kSkogmo bill to create q market direc-
tor under the supervision Of the COM
missioner Of agriculture, to grapple
with the marketing problems In this
state. After a brief hearing last
week this bill was recommended for
passage. This action means that a
floor fight will probably be staged In
the senate on Wednesday over the two
marketing bills which have been in
troduced In this session Of the legisla-
ture.
Two bills with entirely different
ideas have been presented to the leg1s-
llature on the marketing subject. One
bill, supported by a special commit
tee Of the legislature, asks for the Gre
iation Of a market director under the
state board Of agriculture. This direc-
tor would be appointed by the commits
Sioner Of agriculture fon term Of four
years. The second bill provides for
state market commission Of three
members and would absorb the powers
and duties now performed by the
state dairy and food department,
farmers institutes and bureau Of inn
migration.
j. \. TitGemOre, president Of the
Equity society, has said that unless a
strong market commission bill can be
enacted he would rather there would
b<.V ricln{ ~ l., 1t hi
session. The platform Of the Repub
lican party declares in favor of the
market commission legislation.
Two important bills providing state
aid for discharged soldiers will be
given hearings by the joint committee
on finance Wednesday afternoon. The
first measure, by Senator Cunningham,
provides that every discharged soldier
of Wisconsin, sailor and marine shall
be paid sum equal to three months
pay. 1t is estimated that this bill
would cost $10,O0O,OOO. At the same
to Senator Pullen's bill praviding for
the payment to each hOnOrably dis
charged soldier sailor and marine,
upon his return to the state, of $40
for each month in the service.
The supplying of dynamite by the
state to the settlers Of northern Wis
consin at cost in order to aid in the
clearing and development of about
100000 acres of land in the state is
one of the big problems brought be-
fore the Wisconsin legislature by Sen
atOr A. II. Wilkinson, Bayfield,.
"The state runs Il binding Irvine fac
tory at Waupun and makes money out
of it," declared Mr.. Wilkinson in a
statement. 1t is conceivable that the
state could build and operate plant
for the manufacture of this necessary
material and thus assist greatly in the
more rapid development Of the 10000
600 acres Of cutover timber land in
northern Wisconsin which lies waiting
to be made veritable garden.
About 100000 acres year for the
past three years have been reclaimed
from the forest in northern Wisconsin
and set to work producing food sup
plies to help keep back the specter Of
,bluIN dllOll LILIES lldS UCcH uOuc
through the efforts of the pioneer set
tier in brushing his land clearing it Of
stumps and getting it into crops.
Ever since the running of the land
clearing demonstration train by the
college Of agriculture of the university,
this reclamation work has been great
ly speeded up.
Explosives are so important in the
continuance Of this work that the mat
ter of price is of moment. not only to
the settler who uses them, but to the
state at large, for the amount of land
cleared is increased or diminished as
the price Of dynamite goes down or
up. The price of dynamite has ad-
vanced from 60 to IS per cent since
the United States entered the war
Much Of the nitroglycerin dynamite
now in stock was made from glycerin
costing 60 cents per pound-now gly-
cerin is about 10 cents. The United
States government has accumulated
during the war immense stocks of in
gradients for explosives. Millions of
pounds of T. n. L. used in the manu-
facture Of high explosives are stored
up in magazines throughout the coun-
try. This has been turned over to the
department of the interior to be used
i'm the reclamation work which Secre-
tary Lane hopes to carry on if con-
gress passes his bill for aid in reclaim
inc land for the returning soldier. In
addition, the government has nearly
1OO,OOO,O00 pounds of ammonium nj
trate on hand, which it is now trying to
pose Of.
a saving of cents pound on the
manufacture Of the dynamite used
would give such an impetus to the
Iand-clearing movement as has never
been witnessed in the state. Efforts
were made by the Wisconsin represen-
tatives to induce some Of the leading
dynamite manufacturers to make up a
state brand of low grade powder for
exclusive use in stumping, but it ap-
Darently did not fit in with the bust