Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-06-28

so that 100000 jackpine and Nor
way pine seedlings will be available
for the 1885 planting season. Grover
Comet, state forester, has arranged
for the planting now of an additional
100000 seedlings in order to supply
Civilian Conservation Corps camps
with necessary planting stock.
Release all restricted AAA acreage
for forage corn planting, demands r.
A. TrOvatten, state commissioner of
agriculture, of Chester Davis, produc-
ton administrator of the AAA. Tro-
vatten warns that unless restricted
acreage is Immediately seeded to
corn, he fears for the states dairy
herds, which he says on account of
lack of feed will have to be reduced
by considerable numbers next winter.
He says that should such a calamity
happen, it would take ten years to
replace herds to our present standard.
The bluff of one of the large cor
pOratiOns in Minneapolis that has
threatened to move out of the state
if the 56-year-old corporate excess tax
continues to be enforced, was prompt
ly called by Local 574 of the Truck
Driver Unions. That organization Of
fered their services free to the con-
Germ if they would go. Philanthropic-
ally, one of the larger newspapers was
also offered free transportation to a
point outside of the states borders.
nnnSt irnc that
by the Minneapolis Civic and Com
MERGE Association to various business
houses asking if they would leave the
state because of enforcement of the
corporate excess tax, have, accord
ing to the association produced some
Tax Commission, however, more inter-
esting results have shown up. A
QUESTIONABLE, returned, by mistake, to
the commission, stated that the con-
Germ would absolutely have to move
out of the state upon enforcement of
the tax. Check of their financial
statement showed that the concern
had a long way to go before they
would have to start paying dollar
of the tax. Inquiry at the Mime
apolis Civic and Commerce Associa-
ton brought the reply that 'undoubt-
eddy there were many of them like
that" A sort of sympathy strike.
1t would be interesting to know eX-
actly why this tax in the past was
never enforced.
One of the advantages of the re-
duced highway aid bill passed by Con-
gress is that it sets up definite fed
eral program for three years. Even
though the money to be allotted Min
sofa is only a fraction of what the
state was given for the current sea-
son, the highway department will at
least be able to plan its program in
advance This, according to N. w.
Elsberg, highway commissioner, is an
advantage and will aid in getting
the greatest amount of good from the
federal money. For the coming year,
Minnesota will have S5,400,000 of fed
eral highway aid compared with S1O,-
100000 for the current year. For the
next two years there will be S3,000,0O0
year if Minnesota can match the
money dollar for dollar.
The latest information from Eco
Monies Statistics, Inc, is that the
spread between production and con-
sumption, which the NRA was de-
signed to prevent or minimize, is
growing steadily greater. Through
April and May, the index of total
stocks, both raw and finished, rose
from AS to $50, thus cancelling al
most one-third of the favorable de-
cline extending from July 1888,
through March 1884. The only major
exceptions to this increase of inven-
tory (resulting from failure of con-
sumption to keep pace with produc-
ton, due to lack of purchasing pow
err on the part of the masses) were
in the wooden and oil industries.
Producers in many cases were run