AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 433 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.