Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831932598

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232069

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 1

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III, 69 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Further statement of Chester H. Gray, Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation

Collection:: Economics Books

[8 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF is, the powers that are underthe marketing agreement—from the board to the advisory councils. Mr. Gray. May I read these amendments now, Mr. Chairman, so that we will have the basis of our discussion more adequately before us? v Having suggested the changes for section 4, it necessarily follows that changes be made in section 7, and these are proposed: (a) When the advisory councils in the districts which in the aggregate represent more than fifty per cent of any commodity, or when a substantial number of cooperative associations or other organizations of producers of the commodity in such districts favor the full cooperation of the board in the marketing of the surplus of the commodity—— Now dropping into the text of the bill: And whenever the board find— First. That there is or may be during the ensuing year a surplus above the requirements for the orderly marketing of any agricultural commodity or above the domestic requirements for such commodity; Second. That the durability, the conditions of preparation, processing, and preserving, and the methods of the marketing of the commodity are such that the commodity is adapted to marketing as authorized by this section. Then leaving out the third condition in the bill as printed, and dropping over to line 4 on page 10: Then the board, after publicly declaring its finding, shall arrange for the marketing of such surplus. And so forth. Mr. Crark. Now, Mr. Gray, I believe you are just setting up there nothing but a buck-passing machine, as I think you are going to find, in your advisory council. That is right herein your proposition. Now let us center somewhere the authority. That is my idea. Mr. Apkins. It seems to me right there, Mr. Clark, as long as you have brought that up, that this matter of an operating period on any commodity should not be started unless most of the farmers inter- ested in the commodity think that it ought to be. This very amendment cures that very condition. Mr. Fort. May I ask a question? In fact what you have done is take what was third in section 7, which was one of the things the board had to find existed, namely, that a substantial number of cooperatives on the advisory council wanted the board to act. That had to be found as a fact by the board before it could act. Mr. Gray. Yes; in the bill as written. Mr. Fort. Now, you have taken that out from a thing that is necessary to be found by the board as a fact and made it a recital preliminary to the board’s finding any fact. Mr. Gray. Yes, sir. Mr. Fort. In other words, you have put the initiative for any action by the board not in the board itself, but in the commodity councils. ; Mr. Gray. In the commodity councils in districts which represent more than 50 per cent of the commodity. Mr. Fort. Or the cooperative associations. Mr. Crark. I don’t think that is quite right. . Mr. Fort. On the geographical council or the cooperative associa- bion. You are putting the initiative on the geographical council or

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