AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Houst oF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Tuesday, February 21, 1928. The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 o’clock a. m., Hon. Gilbert N. Haugen (chairman) presiding. Present: Representatives Haugen (chairman), Williams, Ketcham, Hall, Fort, Menges, Andresen, Adkins, Clarke, Hope, Aswell, Kinche- loe, Jones, Swank, Fulmer, and McSweeney. The CuairMAN. The committee will kindly be in order. (At the informal discussion among members of the committee.) The Crairman. Without objection, when the committee adjourns to-day it will adjourn over until day after to-morrow at 10 o’clock. The CaairMAN. I have before me a letter from Mr. Milo Reno, president Towa Division, the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America, Des Moines, Iowa, also numerous subscription blanks submitted by Mr. Reno, which I desire to call to the attention of the committee. The letter reads: Hon. GiLBerT N. HaUuGEN, Washington, D. C. Dear Mg. Haugen: At the suggestion of Mr. A. W. Ricker, I am sending you the original subscription lists to defray the expenses of the Corn-Belt com- mittee’s fight for the McNaryv-Haugen bill. Mr. Ricker informed me that some parties were rather weak in the support of this measure, because they felt the ‘farmers of the Middle West were not whole-heartedly for it. These lists will be an evidence as to the earnestness of the farmers in demanding a passage of this m tire. Tam asking that you return these lists when you are through with them. Very sincerely yours, Miro RENo. President. The subscrintion blank reads: SUBSCRIPTION BLANK IN BEHALF OF THE MCNARY-HAUGEN BILL The money subscribed hereon is for the sole purpose of defrayving the expenses of the legislative committee of the Corn Belt Federation of Farm Organizations at Washington, D. C., during the 1927-28 session of Congress, and is to he used to pass the McNary-Haugen bill and for no other purpose. The following organizations comprise the Corn Belt Federation: State farm bureaus of Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska. State organizations of the Farmers Union in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota. Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Montana. The Iowa State Grange, the Chicago and Iowa Milk Producers Association, the Wisconsin Creamery Federation. bi Wheat Growers Associations of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South akota. The livestock commission houses of the Farmers Union at Chicago, South St. Paul. Sioux City, Omaha, and Kansas City. 42