AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
House oF REPRESENTATIVES, 
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, 
Monday, February 6, 1928. 
The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 o’clock a. m., 
Hon. Gilbert N. Haugen (chairman) presiding. 
The CrAIRMAN. The committee will be in order. Doctor Kilgore, 
the committee will be pleased to hear you. 
STATEMENT OF DR. B. W. KILGORE, CHAIRMAN BOARD OF 
TRUSTEES AND CHAIRMAN OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE OF 
THE AMERICAN COTTON GROWERS’ EXCHANGE; PRESIDENT 
NORTH CAROLINA COTTON GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION, RALEIGH, 
N. C. 
Mr. CrarkgE. I have been absent at Albany attending a meeting 
of our State forestry commission and did not get the gentleman's 
name and what he represents. 
Mr. Kircore. My name is B. W. Kilgore, chairman board of 
trustees, American Cotton Growers’ Exchange, and chairman of the 
legislative committee of the exchange. 
Mr. Crarke. Will you explain what that is? 
Mr. Kmncore. I will. I am also president of the North Carolina 
Cotton Growers’ Cooperative Association, the association of my home 
State. 
Mr. CLargE. How much of an acreage do you represent? 
Mr. KiLGore.. If you will wait just one minute, I will try to give 
you that so as to have it connected. 
For 20 years I was the director of the agricultural experiment sta- 
tion of my State and during 10 of those years I was also the director 
of the agricultural extension service. In those 20 years my interests 
and my efforts were given entirely to the production of crops. 
With the exception of Virginia and Florida, which produce only 
small amounts of cotton, the other 14 cotton-growing States from 
North Carolina through New Mexico and Arizona and California, have 
cooperative cotton marketing associations. All of these cooperative 
marketing associations, except the two in Mississippi, the staple 
growers and the short-cotton growers, the State cotton cooperative 
marketing associations in all the States are federated in what is known 
as the American Cotton Growers’ Exchange. The purpose of the 
exchange is to perform general services for all of these cooperative 
associations, aducational work, membership relations, legislative 
matters, other general things in connection with the public and sales 
service. The exchange maintains sales offices in all of the leading 
cotton markets in the South, in New England, and in foreign 
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