AGRICULTURAL" RELIEF 
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Hovse oF REPRESENTATIVES, 
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, 
Friday, January 20, 1928. 
The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 o'clock a. m,, 
n the committee room. House Gffice Building, Hon. Gilbert XN. 
Haugen presiding. 
Present: Messrs. Haugen (chairman), Purnell, Hall, Fort, Andre- 
sen, Clark, Tlouston. Kincheloe, Swank, Rubies Ketcham, Pratt, 
Adkins, Hope, Aswell, Jones, and Fulmer. 
The CualrMAN. The committee will come to order. Doctor Kil- 
sore, are you ready to proceed this morning? 
Doctor KiLGorE. Yes, sir. As I stated yesterday, Mr. Bledsoe 
and Mr. Stone, of the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association of 
Mississippi wish to present the matter of the stabilization of cotton; 
but, before they address you, I would like to introduce Mr. Whit- 
tington, Representative in Congress from Mr. Bledsoe’s and Mr. 
Stone's district. 
STATEMENT OF HON. W. M. WHITTINGTON, THIRD DISTRICT 
OF MISSISSI: v 
Mr. WaITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, 
[ wish to say just a word. I represent the third district in Mississippi, 
and that district produced during the 1925 season more than 900,000 
bales of cotton, and during the 1926 season more than 800,000 bales 
of cotton, so that I am interested in the agricultural problem as I 
am interested in no other question. 
Mr. AsweLL. How much did you make this year, after the flood? 
Mr. WarrtingTox. I did not get your question. 
Mr. Asw, ‘Tow much was at re Juiced this year by reason of 
the flood? 
Mr. WaitTIvgToy. I would say that 700,000 acres of cultivated 
land in my district was overflowed in 1927 and during the year prob- 
ably 10 per cent of that area was planted to cotton. 
Mr. AsweLL. That is, after the flood subsisded? 
Mr. WaiTTINGTON. After the flcod had subsisded, only a portion 
of that land was planted; I should say 10 per cent of the entire flooded 
irea was then planted to cotton. 
But our advocacy of the insurance plan in the agricultural legisla- 
tion of the second session of the Sixty-ninth Congress, Mr. Chairman 
and gentlemen of the committee, was based upon the study and in- 
vestigations of Mr. O. F. Bledsoe, the author and organizer of cooper- 
ative cotton marketing in Mississippi, supplemented by the fine 
thought and analyses of Mr. A. H. Stone, also of Mississippi, and vice 
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