AGRICULTURAL RELIEF

House oF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE,
Tuesday, January 17, 1928.
The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 o'clock a. m. in the
committee hearing room, House Office Building, Hon. Gilbert N.
Haugen presiding.
Present: Messrs. Haugen (chairman), Purnell, Williams of Illinois,
 Ketcham, Hall, Pratt, Fort, Menges, Andresen, Adkjns, Aswell,
Kincheloe, Jones, Swank, Fulmer, Rubey, Doyle, and McSweeney.
The CHairMAN. The committee will kindly come to order.
We will now hear these farm organizations. Who do you desire
to call first?
Mr. SETTLE. We introduce Mr. Thompson, who has a few remarks
to make to you.
The CHAIRMAN. We will “rar
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Mr. THoMpsoN. Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen of the committee,
I am president. of the American Farm Bureau Federation, but this
morning I am spokesman for this group of organizations that have
been working together for farm legislation, who have set forth the
policies in the different bills and are in acreement with the fundamental
 principles as set forth in House bill No. 7940, believing that
those are the principles that should be incorporated in legislation that
would become a permanent policy for agriculture.
The different organizations we represent here, after we counciled
together, are the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Corn Belt
Federation of Farm Organizations, composed of the Missouri Farm
Association, the National Producers Alliance, the Iowa Farm Union,
the Iowa Farm Bureau, the Iowa State Grange, the Jowa Threshermen’s
 Association, the Ottumwa Iowa Dairy Marketing Association,
the Nebraska Farmers Union, the Nebraska Farm Bureau, the Kansas
Farm Union, the Kansas Farm Bureau, the Minnesota Farmers
Union, the Minnesota Farm Bureau, the Minnesota Wheat Growers,
the South Dakota Producers Alliance, the South Dakota Wheat
Growers Association, the South Dakota Farmers Union, the North
Dakota Farmers Union, the North Dakota Wheat Growers Association,
 the Oklahoma Farmers Union, the Indiana Farm Bureau, the
Central States Soft Wheat Growers Association, the Chicago Milk
Producers Association, the Illinois Farmers Union, the Wisconsin
Cooperative Creamery Association, the Wisconsin Farm Bureau, the
Equity Cooperative Exchange, the Farmers Union Terminal Association,
 the South St. Paul Farmers Union Livestock Commission
House, the Chicago Farmers Union Livestock Commission House.