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MINNESOTA. 



178.64; funding tax fund, $79,101.39; perma- 

 nent school fund, $117,005.56; general school 

 fund, $61,516.87; permanent university fund, 

 $73,867.58 ; general university fund, $27,962.36; 

 internal improvement fund, $3,403.65 ; internal 

 improvement land fund, $20,767.92; internal 

 improvement land fund interest, $3,058.94; 

 school text-book fund. $43,846.67; swamp land 

 fund. $6.950.65 ; State institutions fund, $39,- 

 245.75; Reform School fund, $4,442.22; grain 

 inspection fund. $22.842.12 ; total, $1,398,544.58. 



The total amount of the funded and the un- 

 funded debt of the State, less cash in the sinking 

 and redemption fund, was, on Aug. 1, 1894, $1,- 

 892,183.18. 



The school fund amounts to $10,712,119.60, 

 and the university fund to $1,034,067.05. Of 

 the swamp land grant of 325,000 acres, made 

 under the general laws of 1865 to certain chari- 

 table, educational, and penal institutions, 300,000 

 acres have been selected, and from the sales of 

 land, timber, and rights of way and mineral 

 leases, $54,192.27 has been received. 



Mortgage Foreclosures. The State Bureau 

 of Labor has collected statistics on mortgages, 

 and finds that, while the amount of farm mort- 

 gages increased 40 per cent, from 1880 to 1890, 

 the value of the farms increased 70 per cent. 

 The foreclosures in 23 counties had been tabu- 

 lated at the time of report. 



The 23 counties had farm land in 1880 worth 

 $124,488,668, which had increased to be worth in 

 1890 $158,813,671. This increase in the value 

 of the farms in these counties was 27 per cent. 

 The farms increased in number from 46,607 to 

 48,504, or 4 per cent. The mortgages recorded 

 in 1880 and 1881 averaged for farm property in 

 number 7,117 and in amount $5,209,308, and for 

 the two years 1888 and 1889 they were on an 

 average 5,484 in number and $4,433.671 in 

 amount. The decrease in number was 9 per 

 cent, and in amount 19 per cent. 



For the years 1880 and 1881 the mortgage 

 foreclosures'on lots in 22 of these counties was 

 on an average per annum, in number 165, in 

 amount $125,547, and the lots sold were 324. 

 For the two years 1892 and 1893 the same aver- 

 ages were for number of foreclosures 435, the 

 number of lots sold 842, and the amounts of the 

 same $279,659. There was an increase in the 

 number of foreclosures on lots of 31 per cent., in 

 the amounts involved of 123 per cent., and in 

 the number of lots sold of 160 per cent. 



Education. The State University had en- 

 rolled an aggregate of 2,050 students, of whom 

 nearly 300 were in the law department, 368 in 

 the medical, and 250, including 60 women, in 

 the school of practical agriculture. The course 

 in the last named is not half as long as the ordi- 

 nary college course, being three winters of six 

 months each, but this course is followed, for 

 , those who want to become professional men in 

 any line of agriculture, by mi additional four- 

 year college course, one fourth of which is agri- 

 cultural science, about half of the sciences relat- 

 ing to agriculture, and the other fourth to gen- 

 eral university work. 



The department of dairying and- domestic 

 economy was begun last summer, and was at- 

 tended 'by ~9 women. 



In 1893 the facultv added to the bovs' course 



of study a thorough course of work in black- 

 smithing, adapted to teaching all that farmers 

 need to know regarding repair and other simple 

 iron work on the farm. In 1893 a meat house, 

 or small slaughter house, was erected, and the 

 killing, dressing, cutting up, and preserving of 

 meats are now taught the students. 



The first annual report of the inspector of 

 high schools, an office created in 1893, shows 

 that there are 88 schools under the supervision 

 of the high-school board, receiving annual ap- 

 propriations of $400, and divided into 3 classes. 

 There are 28 schools of the first class, including 

 those of the principal cities of the State ; 30 of 

 the second class ; and 30 of the third. The report 

 shows a total enrollment of 7,259 students, with 

 342 teachers, principals, and superintendents. 

 Greek is taught in 21 schools to 155 students. 

 and Latin in all the schools to 4,532 students. 

 Political science is studied by 275 students, and 

 chemistry by 600. 



The Moorhead Normal School graduated this 

 year a class of 10, and the Mankato Normal 

 School one of about 25. 



State Institutions. The School for the Deaf 

 and Dumb at Faribault has a large attendance, 

 and graduated 5 in June. 



The public school at Owatonna is designed for 

 children without natural protectors. Commit- 

 ments are made through the probate courts, on 

 the action of county commissioners. Children 

 between the ages of two and fourteen may be 

 admitted. 



The hospitals for the insane had a total of 

 2,607 patients Nov. 10. 



The applications for admission to the School 

 for the Feeble-minded are greatly in excess of 

 the accommodations. 



The State Prison has accommodations for 580. 

 and on Dec. 10 had a total of 537 convicts, of 

 whom 83 were sent by the United States Govern- 

 ment. ' The parole law and the reformatory plan 

 were introduced two years ago, and have worked 

 well. The manufacture of twine has been of 

 benefit to consumers, it having been one of the 

 chief means of reducing the price 33 per cent, 

 from that held by the great twine trust. 



The Lunacy 'Law. This law has been de- 

 clared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. 

 The analysis of the law by the court discloses 

 its failure to protect the citizen against possible 

 conspiracy or carelessness. Under the statute 

 it was possible to make an examination of a pel-- 

 son alleged to be insane without the examiners 

 being under oath, without any formalities to 

 secure publicity, without, it is said by the court, 

 even addressing the person to be committed for 

 insanity or hearing him speak a single word. 



The "setting aside of the law seems to placo 

 the authorities of the insane asylums in serious 

 difficulties, 400 or 500 having been committed 

 under this law during the year. 



Farming. The report of the State Dairy 

 Commissioner gives the following information : 



Oleomargarine has been seized and confiscate 

 when it has not been protected by the intei 

 state commerce law, when it has been disposed 

 of by the foreign shipper, and has become min- 

 gled with other property. The adulteration of 

 butter and the substitution of imitation for the 

 genuine article is a fraud against which the de- 



