Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-29

Bureau Board, held a meeting in the
County Auditors office in the evening
to make up the budget and consider
the proper amount needed to carry
on the extension work for another
year, beginning June LIST, 1928. Such
a budget is required by law. During
the past years the Farm Bureau
Board has had the pleasure to have
almost the entire County Board pres
ent at this meeting, and we have to-
gether gone over the activities of the
extension work done during the year
and also discussed how and where the
money had been used, so the County
Board might get detailed information
as to the activities of the Farm Blu
reau and to give them clearer view
of the needs for the coming year be-
fore the budget was laid before them
so they might act with more under
standing on the appropriation. From
the Federal and the State Government
the appropriations are always avail
able if the County and the extension
organization Farm BureaW meet the
requirements fixed by law.
This year we were not met with
of the County Board members, but af-
ter little work we got together and
discussed the matter. 1t was plainly
felt that two of the commissioners
would oppose the county appropria-
ton for this year. The commissioner
from the northwestern district let us
know that if the question could be
left over until after the primary
election he thought that he would be
in a position to vote for the apprO-
priation. We would of course not
consider a suggestion of this kind and
that for many reasons.
The men in charge of county ex-
tension work have to organize their
work from the very early spring.
All club work on farms, prospects of
the women's work, the boys and girls
club work, experimental seed plots
of all kinds, the use of commercial
fertilizers for the different grains
and vegetables, new testing associ-
ations, testing our dairy herds for
tuberculosis, and so forth, all of these
activities are planned, pushed and
promoted by the county extension
work, and it all has to be laid out
and started early in the spring in
order to make it a success. There
fore it was proper at that time to ask
ness in supporting these activities in
their usual manner again this year.
The morning after this meeting the
budget was laid before the County
Board for their consideration and final
vote The motion was made, but
the chairman of the board, who is
favorable to the appropriation, failed
to have the motion seconded. The
commissioner from the southern dis
trict said that he would vote for it,
provided it would be carried unani-
so here it was left, turned
down. Then the commissioners were
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help to remove the causes that prob
ably were responsible for their hest
tation in granting the appropriation.
The commissioner from the southern
district made a very reasonable sug-
gestion, but the commissioner from
the northwest district expressed him
self as follows: Il will not consider
any suggestion signed by the voters
and presented" and he explained it
by saying that you can get any darn"
petition signed by the voters, no mat
ter what it contains-a rather unin-
telligent estimation of his constitu-
entS.
Here we stand. The Pine county
folks, l know, are taking the matter
under consideration, not alone the
farmers, but also the people living
in the villages and towns. And it
is not alone the older people that are
concerned, but also many of the