AGRICULTURAL RELIEF
Mr. FuLMeR. It is your belief that if the farmers were properly
organized by the Government and they had the machinery or marketing
 system whereby they could market the farm products in an
orderly manner they would not worry about the surplus in any of
these farm commodities?
Mr. Marer. Ido. We do not need to produce it.
Mr. FuuMER. In other words, as it is the world needs every commodity
 In your community as well as cotton in mine. And if we had
orderly marketing and some way of distributing these farm products
it would equalize things?
Mr. Maser. My belief is that the world needs every particle of
foodstuff or anything else the farmer can produce, and that this
country should produce up to its capacity, and that it should not
produce surpluses, because there are other things that could be substituted
 in the areas where they do produce surpluses.
Up with us where there is all wheat we produce the surplus and
we get more for a poor than for a good crop, or else more for the crop
when the world has a short crop.
But if the production is regulated and the marketing is regulated
there should be a “live and let live” price. I do not think the market
should be placed at an exorbitant price, but it should be placed at a
price the farmers would know what they are going to get, and then
either grow it for that price or else not grow 1t for the price.
Mr. FuLmer. Up there do you believe there is a real need for evolve
Ing a system whereby you could eliminate the middlemen, a lot of
these parasites between the producers and the consumers, which
would bring about a better price for the producer and a lower price
for the consumer?
Mr. Manger. I certainly believe that the producer should have a
better price, and I do believe *t could be delivered to the consumer
at a lower price.
Mr. Furmer. In place of the Government spending millions and
millions to increase the farm production, is it your idea that they
should spend quite a lot of money working out the marketing system
 and distribution system so as to bring about fair prices and research
 work to find out new uses for cotton and various other farm
products?
Mr. MaHER. I certainly do. That is just what the Agricultural
Department is doing and has been doing for years, go ahead with that
work and make the country produce; the more it produces the more
we will get for our products.
Mr. Apkins. One of the most vital things and important things in
vour plan is adjusting production to the needs of consumption. Do
vou not appreciate that to do that you would have to have some
measure of control over your corn borers, the chinch bugs, and the
weather, etc.?
Mr. ManER
Mr. Apxins
weather man?
Mr. Mauger. Well, the world has to live, and the statisticians and
:conomists come pretty near knowing just about the acreage that
the world wants in this crop or that crop or another crop, and what
will feed the world or clothe the world. Then when a proper organitation
 has charge of what we are putting into the ground in the way of
seed for a crop a year before it is put in, or the vear before they do

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