AGRICULTURAL RELIEF House oF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Friday, January 27, 1928. The committee met in the committee room, House Office Building, Hon. Gilbert N. Haugen (chairman) presiding. The CaAlrMAN. Mr. Anderson, we will hear vou this morning. STATEMENT OF SYDNEY ANDERSON, PRESIDENT MILLERS’ NATIONAL FEDERATION. MILLS BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D. C. Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Chairman, I am not going to make a speech this morning. I should like to preface a somewhat intimate and detailed discussion of the bill which is before you with some general observations which will furnish a background for that discussion. I think I should say, first of all, that I appear as president of the Millers’ National Federation, and that in that capacity I speak officially, but I am permitted to, and do express my personal opinions and convictions with respect to this bill and with respect to farm- relief legislation in general, The organization which I represent is composed entirely of wheat millers. Its membership produces about 73,000,000 barrels of flour a year, representing about 65 per cent of the total production for domestic consumption and export. We are not concerned at all with the political phases that are in- volved in farm relief. We are concerned only in the economic and commercial workability of any measure of relief which may be adopted by Congress. The wheat-milling industry represents the market in the United States for between 70 and 85 per cent of the total wheat crop. From one-fourth to one-third of the total exports of wheat are made in terms of wheat flour and in a very real sense the wheat-milling industry is a part of the wheat-producing agricultural industry, because no commodity is really marketed until 1t is marketed to the final consumer and, therefore, the wheat-milling industry, with others, represents an integral part of the wheat-marketing machin- ery, and we think that its cooperation would be essential to any workable plan of agricultural relief. We consider that any problem which directly affects the farmer is not only a farmers’ problem but is also our problem, and that we would necessarily, as I have said, be a part of any sound plan of marketing the wheat in this country; and perhaps I should say that what I have to say this morning, while it affects the general opera- £91