Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

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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

20 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Mr. Gray. No; I do not. Mr. Fort. You do not in any case put that power in the individual producers or in the members of an association? Mr. Gray. In no farm relief bill has that been done. In the one that was passed last year that same phraseology was used, and there was no demand for a definition of eligibility. Mr. Fort. You might find, might you not, on this basis, Mr. Gray, 50 per cent of the crop—take, for instance corn—may be raised out- side of the districts that are primarily known to us as wheat and corn districts of the country. Mr. Gray. If that be the case, statistically proven, the advisory councils which represent 50 per cent in the aggregate are necessary to make their recommendations before the Federal Farm Board has any indication of popular producer opinion on the subject. That is covered in the first section of paragraph 7, as suggested for amendment. Mr. Fort. I assume it is improbable, but it is still possible that there might be no wheat growers or men who were substantially interested in wheat on any of these advisory councils in a great part of the territory in the United States. Mr. Gray. I would hardly think that possible, with the make-up—— Mr. Fort. Those men’s interests might be in the mill feeds rather than in the wheat itself. That is possible. Mr. Gray. That would be possible, yes, under certain territorial limitations. But you can not avoid all of those things. Mr. ForT. What I am trying to get at is why are you trying to get away from that commodity advisory council proposition and putting the settling of the problem in wheat or corn or anything else in the hands of a group of men who do not represent the wheat or corn growers, but represent a territorial, geographical division in which the growers of any commodity may be in the minority in the selection of a representative. Mr. Gray. I would not agree that your premise is correct for an answer when you say that these councils do not represent the growers of commodities in the district which they represent. These councils which are called together in convention and are created at this con- vention, the advisory council being composed exclusively of the producers, will surely get on the countil such men as will represent the commoditites in that district. I would not confess that vour premise is a proper one for an answer. Mr. Fort. All commodities are grown all over the country. I mean every isolated commodity you can name will be found in some degree in each district, barring cotton in New England. Mr. Gray. That is possible. Mr. Fort. Therefore they may not represent the commodity. They may represent an antagonistic commodity. Mr. Gray. That is hardly possible when it says they must re- present in the aggregate 50 per cent of the commodity. It is hardly possible if not wholly improbable. Mr. Fort. Then why do you get away from the other? Why do you get away from the direct representation of the particular com- modity? Why should not the wheat growers of the United States, as a group of wheat growers. settle what is going to happen to wheat?

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