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The CuairmMan. Well, each 50-50 plan is more or less independent
of the other, is it not?
Mr. Gray. No; pardon me; they are already consolidated. I did
not get your point. This system is already consolidated under one
generic term, under an agricultural extension service, as comprised
of the three instrumentalities, county agent, home demonstration
agent, and boys’ and girls’ club agent; but they are all administered
by the agricultural demonstration service under Doctor Warburton
and the United States Department of Agriculture. There is a consolidation.
 The only question is to get State funds, Federal funds,
and local funds, so that there may be as many home demonstration
agents and boys’ and girls’ club agents as there are county agricultural
 agents. The program and the policy is identically the same in
all those three.
The CuairMaN. That is the best hasty description of these activities
 that I have heard put together. I am very much obliged to
you for that.
Mr. Gray. Thank you.
The CrAIRMAN. Now, is there anything you can add to the hearing
here, based upon bills having to do with an attempt to regulate
immigration to the United States from the countries of this hemisphere?

Mr. Gray. I do not intend, if I may be pardoned for not doing so,
to go into the question of immigration generally, and I hope not as
inclusively as your suggestion would indicate, for the reason that I
merely want to call to the attention of the committee the position
of the American Farm Bureau Federation on the question of seasonal
labor; and I bring this to your attention because 1t is a well-founded
position of the American Farm Bureau Federation and is of peculiar
interest to the Texas State Farm Bureau, to the New Mexico State
Farm Bureau, to the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation, to the Colorado
 Farm Bureau Federation, the Utah Farm Bureau Federation,
the California State Farm Bureau, the Michigan State Farm Bureau,
and the Kansas State Farm Bureau. I have mentioned only those
States which are most peculiarly interested in this, and our position
is briefly stated, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, in a
{otnision adopted at our annual meeting in 1927 which reads as
follows*

We request our officers to exert every effort in securing a congressional investigation
 before any additional immigration restrictions to nationals on the
Western Hemisphere are applied.
That position was taken two years ago, in 1927. It has not been
altered. It has been reiterated in each of the sessions since, the
last session being in December, 1929, just two or three months ago.
Mr. EsteErry. Where are the sessions held?
Mr. Gray. In Chicago, Ill, by general practice, at this time,
although there have been sessions of the American Farm Bureau
Federation held in Indianapolis and at Atlanta.
Mr. EsterLy. Who attends them?
Mr. Gray. The voting directors or delegates from each of our
State farm bureau federations, which voting directors or delegates
represent blocks of members of 20,000; so that our strongest State
farm bureau federations, which are in their numerical order; namely,
the three strongest, lows, Illinois, and New York, have representation,