Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-03-08
BUREAU
BUY MOTION
PICTURE OUTFIT
County Agent Authorized to Pur-
chase the Necessary Equipment
Carried by Unanimous
Motion.
GIVES SOME FACTS
ON LOCAL TAXES
Madison Twp. Taken as Typical
Township and Levies for Past
Fifteen Years Are
Shown.

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Shown.
Minutes of meeting of Winneshiek
County Board of Directors on March
End, 1922. Meeting called to order
by President VIM. Headington at
1880 A. M. Officers and directors
present: Wm- Headington, "A. w.
'Oxley, H. t. Ramlo, j. C. Beard, S.
+. Pierce, Fred Tekippe, John Rol-
Inns, Ben Rovang, ]. C. Gaffney,
CLAUS Berge, Fred Darlington, Ward
Curtis, Elmer Rosa, A. C. Smithling.
Motion made by A. w. Oxley Of
the auditing committee that the COM
mittee recommended bills be allow
ed as presented. Motion carried.
Considerable discussion from
each of the directors present followed
in regard to the purchase of a mo-
ton picture outfit. 1t was moved by
CLAUS Berge and seconded by TEX
lppe that County Agent be authoriz-
ed to purchase the necessary equip
ment. Motion carried unanimously.
Motion made by A. w. Oxley, Sec
onded by Ben RovaRg that the
County Agent make arrangement to
have l.. S. Fisher or some other
Federation speaker in the county to
assist in holding meetings during the
month of June. Motion carried.
A letter was at hand from F. G.
Churchill, Extension Professor of
Farm Crops and Soils. This letter
stated that the diplodia epidemic,
which is mold affecting corn and
which resulted in serious injury over
the state las fail causing the corn
to mold and much of it to fall down,
might prove to be serious unless a
state wide survey was made to locate
the territory where this mold was
present. Mr.. Oxley stated that this
disease had been discussed in detail
at the short course and that in order
to determine where this mold was
present it was necessary to germin-
ate the corn at temperature of 80
degrees. The mold does not develop
early in the spring when the seed is
first planted, but waits until the
mid summer heat when it affects the
growing crop. In view of this fact
the Extension Department has plan
ned to make state wide survey get
ting five samples of seed corn such
as the farmer intends to plant and
terminating it under conditions fav-
orable to the growth of the mold.
Arrangements were made for SAM
piles to be taken from Orleans, Wash
ington, Frankville, Bloomfield and
Hesper townships. These samples
will be sent in to the college before
March 18th and reports will be made
on March 9th. We are hoping that
no affected seed will be found from
Winneshiek county. We are a lit
tie doubtful, however, in view of the
fact that many pieces of corn were
blown down so easily and in dam
aged condition last fall. This, how
ever, may have been due to the grub,
as last year was grub year for Win
neshiek county, these grubs come at
intervals of three years each.
In view of the fact that the
Equity Society had held their meet
ing and proposed radical curtail-
ment of expenditures of all kinds,
eliminating county agents, county
nurses, county engineers and de-
manding that salaries of all county
officials be cut to the minimum, it
was thought wise to really look in
to the expenditures made for main
tdlTlHR OuT lhS
county agent had been asked by DIR.
Brindley, who is member of the
legislative committee on taxation, TO;
copies of the 1921 levies in Winnie
shiek county. Copies of these levies
were secured back as far as 1906.
A study of these levies proved to
be interesting. They show that no
increase in the county levy was
made from 1907 to 1915, the same
being true of practically all other
levies. The following table shows
exactly when and where increased
levies were made. Madison township
is taken as typical township in the
county and for this reason its levies
are shown.
The fact was brought out that the
entire expense for running our local
government was only SO mills. In
other words, if we would close our
Court House, do away with our coun-
ty supervisors, do away with the
sheriff's office and Jail, that the far
mer who is now paying 500 in taxes
would still be paying $91.SO. In
view of this fact and the fact that
the county agent and county nurse
have been doing valuable work in
the county, the County Agents work
in poultry alone during the three
fall months saving the farmers of
the county more than the expense of
maintaining the office for an entire
year and the fact that the County
Nurse is doing great work in eli
minating cases Of arrested develop
ment due to NAL nutrition and dis
ease which many parents fail to
observe, it was thought the heighth
of folly for any organization to pass
resolutions which would ask that