91 8 READINGS IN RURAL ECONOMICS 



The state of Minnesota, in 1898, passed a bounty law and 

 paid bounties in 1898 and 1899 to a single factory. The pay- 

 ment was refused in 1900, and the law, under contest, was 

 declared unconstitutional. 



Iowa and Wisconsin varied the form of bounty somewhat, 

 by not giving a direct money payment, but providing merely 

 for exemption of the beet-sugar factories from taxation, the 

 Wisconsin law running for five years from 1897. 



The states of South Dakota, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illi- 

 nois form a group of states in which a bounty law was passed for 

 beet-sugar production, but in which no money was ever paid out, 

 because no one came forward who had complied with the require- 

 ments of the statutes. The state of New Jersey had a peculiar 

 experience in that a bounty law was passed by the legislature in 

 1898, but was vetoed by the governor, on the ground that ex- 

 periments did not indicate sufficient reason to believe that the 

 establishment of the industry was feasible in the state. 



