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:: 183193440X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232093

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 3

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 181 - 253

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of R.M. Crowder, president farm bureau and president of the State Chamber of Agriculture, Elk Point, S. Dak.

Collection:: Economics Books

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 227 Mr. JoNEs. An incident. Mr. KincHELOE. Then a plurality of votes was an incident to his election; is that the idea? Mr. CrowpER. Incident to the conditions of election. Mr. Apkins. Let us get back to the point the gentleman from Missouri raised. This idea has been talked about not before Con- gress, but by farmers for a good many years. Mr. CRowDER. Yes, sir. Mr. Apkins. You were raised over in my district in Illinois, and you know how the farmers do there, and I presume they do not do any differently than in South Dakota. Mr. CrowpeR. They do not. Mr. Apkins. I happen to have visited a good many threshing machines and corn shellers, where the farmers came in to help one another. I would meet a crowd of fellows, and I did not talk with anybody but what this legislation had been talked about and knew; and at hours, when they were not busy, they talked about what it would do, and you must remember that the fellows back in the States over this long period of agitation have talked about it and he has become familiar with this legislation as proposed, and the farmer himself is pretty well posted on what the fundamentals of this bill provide for, as I found it among our farmers. Mr. CrowpERr. That is true, generally speaking. Mr. Apkins. It is talked about more than anything else. He is in bad condition. “What does this equalization fee do to us? What does this McNary-Haugen bill do?” And some fellow who thinks he knows about it as much as anybody else proceeds to talk, and they all talk about it. And I have seen a number of copies of the bill that came by request from fellows for the purpose of being able to meet those arguments. My experience this summer in traveling 10,000 or 12,000 miles over my district, in visiting those various places, is that I find it talked about and I believe they are pretty familiar over where you were raised, and I expect some up in your country. Mr. CrowpEer. That is quite true. Mr. KercaaM. Very early in your statement I caught this expres- sion, in talking about the equalization fee you said, if I heard you correctly, that you did not regard it as compulsory. Mr. CRowpER. I do not—as to organization. Mr. KercraM. But the whole point in all the arguments presented in the last two days—the two gentlemen preceding you based their argument upon the thought that the equalization fee ought to be paid by every one who is producing a particular crop. To that extent is it not compulsory? Mr. CrowbEeR. Itis. I would take that for granted, and I appre- ciate that—compulsory to people outside of the organization, except—— Mr. Kercaam. Everybody has to pay, but not everybody has to come into the cooperative association. Mr. CrowpER. That is the point exactly. Mr. Hern. In other words, compulsory pooling. Mr. CrowpeR. That is really the appreciation of the equalization fee, and without that we will find this MeceNary-Haugen bill would not be of the value to us that we would appreciate

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