The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-27
Farm Bureau
Pleased With
Legislation
CALLS SESSION BEST
IN 20 YEARS FROM
FARM VIEWPOINT

Minnesota farmers Jared better
at the last session of the legisla-
ture than at any previous session
in the 20 year period in which
they have worked through their
Farm Bureau on legislative mat
tiers, declared J. S. Jones, execu-
tive secretary and legislative re-
preventative of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau. They got most of
the things they asked for and few
bills were passed that they OPP
posed.
The last annual meeting of the
Minnesota Farm Bureau asked
for:
Civil Service for state employ
eec, to guarantee efficient en-
ployees security of employment
and make public service a career,
thus giving the state more econ
omical and efficient service. Such
a bill was passed.
Labor Relations legislation to
reduce industrial strife and pro-
tect the farmer and the general
public from interference in their
use of the highways and the nor
NAL movement of farm produce to
market and machinery for con-
Citation and arbitration of dis
putes, binding alike on employer
and employee. Such a bill was
passed.
Bangs Disease Control = Legis-
lation providing for a cleanup
campaign patterned after the sue
cessful bovine tuberculosis cam
paign of several years ago was
asked by the Farm Bureau. Two
bills, with adequate appropria-
TORS, were passed.
Rural Identification legislation,
fixing a 10-cent-per-farm tax on
patrons of rural coop power lines
was asked by the Farm Bureau
The bill was passed, saving each
REA patron between Sd and SIS
annually in taxes. Another bill re-
duced taxes charged against for
mer patrons of private power
lines by 35 per cent. A third bill,
relating to REA easements on tax
delinquent land, greatly reduces
the cost of REA line cor struction.
ZOning Of Rural Areas legisla-
ton was asked by the Farm Bur-
eau, SO that rural communities
could, if they wished, direct the
course of settlement of unde-
veloped lands, and thus reduce
the cost of highway and school
maintenance. Such a bill was
passed, carrying the fire protec-
ton provisions sought by the bur-
eau.
Tree Planting legislation, to
lower the cost of trees for farm
windbreaks and woodlots, was
sought by the bureau and passed
, by the legislature
DOG and Sheep" legislation,
providing machinery for setting
up county indemnity funds to re-
imburse stock and poultry men
for losses caused by killer dogs,
was asked by the bureau. Passage
was obtained through amending
an existing, ineffective act.
GraSshOpper Control through
adequate appropriations and close
cooperation between federal and
state departments was asked A
legislative memorial to congress
was adopted early in the session
and the national congress has al
ready appropriated a large sum
for the work.
High School Transportation and
State Aid for Schools in sufficient
amounts to serve the reeds of
rural boys and girls was asked.
An appropriation of 100000, an
increase of $4,000 over the past
biennium, was voted.
Income Tax To Schools, con-
tinuance of past methods of in
come tax distribution, was re-
quest and necessary legislation
adopted.
Gas Tax legislation, providing
for continuation of the four-cent
state tax on gasoline, in order
that better highways may be con-
structed and maintained, was ask
ed. A bill continuing the four
cent tax until September 1, 1910,
was passed.
Insurance Bills that would have
denied mutual and other insur-
ance companies the right to select
risks and to reject groups known
to be bad risks, were killed.
State Oleomargerine legislation
of the type. that arouses inter-
state retaliatory measures and
sectional boycotts was opposed in
Farm Bureau resolution. State
cleo tax proposals, feared by some
to be Of this nature, died in COM
mittee.
Prison Industries restrictive le-
gislation, that would hamper the
efficient operation of the Irvine
and machinery plant at Saltwater
was opposed in a Farm Bureau
resolution. A bill to reduce the
price of prison products below
production costs was killed.
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