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of years from one crop to another crop in an effort to avoid losses and 
to find profits. 
This continuous shift can not bring about stability or better prices 
for agriculture. 
Now, I stated the other day that I was not specially interested in a 
bill that would be only a cotton bill, as somebody suggested that one 
of the loan bills would be; that it would be effective for cotton, but 
would not work on the other crops. 
I stated I would not be interested in a mere cotton bill, even though 
it brought temporary relief for a year or so; that such relief could only 
be temporary, because if cotton by reason of a bill of that kind should 
have its price increased and stabilized reasonably, it would not last, 
because that better price for cotton would cause acreages in wheat 
and corn and other crops to go into cotton, and cotton would thus 
break down because of a special measure that would operate only for 
cotton. 
In the report just given out from the Department of Agriculture 
it was stated there was a large increase in the dairy industry in the 
Nation, and particularly in the South, during the last few years. In 
my State it was stated to have been 20 per cent for the last year. 
This competition of crops for acreage, because of the better prices, to 
the dairy industry has brought about a substantial increase in the 
dairy industry in the South during the last few years—it has to the 
dairy industry throughout the Nation. 
A gentleman said to me just the other day that the dairy industry 
of Minnesota doubled from 1906 to 1920 and that it doubled again 
from 1920 to 1927. The South has been a market for much of the 
dairy products of the dairy States of the mid-west. With the increase 
of dairy production in the South it means that these dairy products 
from the more largely dairy States are going to have to find a market 
somewhere else, either in the big cities of New England or else go to 
the export trade; and we are going to find the dairy industry in the 
same difficult position as a large industry that cotton, wheat, hogs, 
and cattle have been in in the last few years. 
Mr. MENGgEs. May I ask vou a question? 
Mr. KiLcore. Yes; Mr. Menges. 
Mr. MEeNGEs. You are largely in the milk-producing business; you 
are not making butter or cheese, are you? 
Mr. Kincore. We make a lot of butter. Our butter production 
and our creameries are expanding in the South, and we are making 
some cheese. Our cheese industry is not large; but our butter in- 
dustry is considerable and is increasing. 
Mr. MENGES. Are not the climatic conditions with you such as to 
interfere with the proper production of cheese or even butter? 
Mr. KiLgore. You must bear in mind we have a wonderful 
mountain country in the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee. 
Mr. MENGES. I mean more particularly does not the temperature 
interfere with the successful operation of cheese and even butter 
making? 
Mr. KiLcorEe. In that mountain country we have a cool climate, 
with wonderful grass for hay and for grazing, and just the conditions 
that are fit for the cheese industry. It has not grown'large, but it has 
made a start and is growing. The butter end of it has grown consider- 
ably and that can be handled in anv section of the South.