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:: 1831934280

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232071

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 2

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 70 - 179

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of hon. W.M. Whittington, third district of Mississippi

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AGRICULTURAL" RELIEF eee Hovse oF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Friday, January 20, 1928. The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 o'clock a. m,, n the committee room. House Gffice Building, Hon. Gilbert XN. Haugen presiding. Present: Messrs. Haugen (chairman), Purnell, Hall, Fort, Andre- sen, Clark, Tlouston. Kincheloe, Swank, Rubies Ketcham, Pratt, Adkins, Hope, Aswell, Jones, and Fulmer. The CualrMAN. The committee will come to order. Doctor Kil- sore, are you ready to proceed this morning? Doctor KiLGorE. Yes, sir. As I stated yesterday, Mr. Bledsoe and Mr. Stone, of the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association of Mississippi wish to present the matter of the stabilization of cotton; but, before they address you, I would like to introduce Mr. Whit- tington, Representative in Congress from Mr. Bledsoe’s and Mr. Stone's district. STATEMENT OF HON. W. M. WHITTINGTON, THIRD DISTRICT OF MISSISSI: v Mr. WaITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, [ wish to say just a word. I represent the third district in Mississippi, and that district produced during the 1925 season more than 900,000 bales of cotton, and during the 1926 season more than 800,000 bales of cotton, so that I am interested in the agricultural problem as I am interested in no other question. Mr. AsweLL. How much did you make this year, after the flood? Mr. WarrtingTox. I did not get your question. Mr. Asw, ‘Tow much was at re Juiced this year by reason of the flood? Mr. WaitTIvgToy. I would say that 700,000 acres of cultivated land in my district was overflowed in 1927 and during the year prob- ably 10 per cent of that area was planted to cotton. Mr. AsweLL. That is, after the flood subsisded? Mr. WaiTTINGTON. After the flcod had subsisded, only a portion of that land was planted; I should say 10 per cent of the entire flooded irea was then planted to cotton. But our advocacy of the insurance plan in the agricultural legisla- tion of the second session of the Sixty-ninth Congress, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, was based upon the study and in- vestigations of Mr. O. F. Bledsoe, the author and organizer of cooper- ative cotton marketing in Mississippi, supplemented by the fine thought and analyses of Mr. A. H. Stone, also of Mississippi, and vice 71

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