512 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
words, if you were going to enlarge the activities of any successful 
business enterprise, you would see to it that the additions or increased 
activities would coordinate and dovetail into the other—operations, 
agencies, or activities of the enterprise. I think, therefore, in legisla- 
tion we should be governed by the same principle. We should see 
to,it that in any successful legislative program new ‘laws should, so 
far as possible, dovetail into existing acts or legislation. 
With this idea in view the bill referred to was introduced and it 
attempts to coordinate the financial agencies already provided for 
by the Government with the warehousing system and the coopera- 
tive marketing system in such a way as to give definite farm relief. 
In other words, we have the Federal reserve bank and the inter- 
mediate credit banks and, in my opinion, they are sufficient to finance 
any agricultural operation or agency. We have the warehousing 
system that ini my opinion will take care of any of the storage require- 
ments of any farm commodity, and two years ago we provided for a 
cooperative marketing division of the Department of Agriculture. 
If the one great problem of agriculture is the control of production, 
and if the other great problem is the control and handling of surplus, 
it appears to me that these three agencies—the financial agency, the 
warehousing system, and the cooperative marketing agency—sbould 
be correlated and coordinated in such a way as to solve both problems 
without the necessity of creating any additional organizations. 
I might say that the bill I refer to is not unlike the other farm 
relief bills in so far as the board is concerned, for I think there should 
be one governmental agency charged with the duty and the responsi- 
bility of bringing the financial agencies of the Government, the 
warehousing systems of the Government, and the cooperative market- 
ing systems of the Government together, so that the producers of 
this country would be able to utilize the united and combined agen- 
cies of these three great systems, to contriol their production and at 
the same time handle their surplus. 
I agree with Mr. Yoakum that any legislation that does not look 
to the control of the production of farm crops in the end must fail. 
In other words, unless there is some agency, some means whereby we 
can regulate or control production, all of our efforts will be in vain. 
And if the organization of farmers, with the aid of these three agencies 
of the Government, are not able to control the production of the com- 
modities they are producing and handling there is no other agency 
under the shining canopy of heaven that can do it; and I feel that 
with proper legislation, with a proper governing board supervising, 
advising and directing, so as to bring these three agencies together 
for the benefit of agriculture, the end can be easily accomplished, 
and accomplished without the creation of further governmental 
agencies. } 
Further than that, this board or this governmental agency will be 
able to coordinate these three agencies in one harmonious union and 
one harmonious action on the part of the Government in controlling 
and regulating the production. i 
Mr. Apkins. Do you make that compulsory, that regulating 
acreage, etc.? 
Mr. Hare. We do not make it compulsory. But make it so that 
any organization of farmers, expecting the benefit of the provisions 
of this act will not be entitled to it unless their acreage will justify 1t.