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which more than theoretically they will go into, because it is an easy
business to go into, and the remuneration comes quickly after you
first buy your cows, then you accentuate the condition that is already
facing the dairy farmer; that is, you put him on a world basis. Butter
right now is on a world basis. Two years ago the dairyman lacked
two days of being on a world basis. Everybody has preached diversification.
 The diary business has grown in the United States until
now it is on the basis of the wheat and corn business. The dairyman
 in America is getting for butter what it is worth in the world
market and not what it is worth in the domestic market; and the
Auid-milk situation is desperately near that point. The cheese
situation has not yet come to it, but it is capable of getting to it. In
other words, we force these men on the border to go into the dairy
business. By so doing we are not going to help the dairyman or
anyone. We are going to hurt the dairyman on the border, and
also all over the Nation. Mississippi now is leaping forward by
bounds, and we have already put the dairy business on a world basis
in its development and Mississippi may be too late to get the cream
of profits. Now, I do not want to accentuate that development any
more than necessary, but the passage of arbitrary immigration laws
at the present time, not giving these border farmers time to go into
something that might not be so much of a world commodity as milk
and butter, have come to be, would be harmful to the farmers’ interest
 in the border States and elsewhere. I am not asking that this
thing never be done; but I am asking that it be done carefully, and
when it is done, do it on the best basis that can be found, and that
basis is not yet arrived at, so far as I know.
The CualrMAN. What would you think about temporary admission
 for the period of four months?
Mr. Gray. That is one possible avenue of solution of this thing;
that is one method. Another method that might be incorporated
in the bill is to put the whole thing on the Secretary of Labor, and
let him, under rules and regulations such as he shall devise, whenever
an emergency exists, bring these fellows in, in such numbers as he
thinks wise. Another solution—
The CuairmaN. How would you get them?
Mr. Gray. I do not know. Whatever bonding system or certification
 system to identify them when they come in might be worked
out, would be a proposition for the Secretary of Labor.
The CHAIRMAN. We can not take a chance on that. We can not
renew bondage of labor in the United States. We can not start
that.
Mr. Gray. Another possible solution which might be a portion
at least of this whole proposition, would be to designate a future
time, not right now, but a future time, it may be three or five years
in the future, in which whatever rule you adopt, if you had to adopt
the rule of either the Box or Johnson bill, should become operative.
This would give these farmers a little leeway to get on their feet, in
different methods of labor and different crops. 1 am suggesting
that a proper solution be found—and whether either one of them
or all of them be a proper solution, I do not know, and I do not
know whether this committee knows, without the proper mvestigation.
 I am asking on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation,
 speaking from the self-interested. point of view of 10 or 12
border States. which I have named in the record already, that this