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:: 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 Charles S. Weller, chairman, South Dakota Agricultrual Equality Commitee, Mitchell, S. Dak.

Collection:: Economics Books

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 234 fields and can use large units of machinery. We think that our per capita production of bread and mest is larger than that of any State in the Union. About 95 per cent of our industry is agricultural. However, we have in the Black Hills, which the President honored us by visiting, a considerable mining industry. But that, I believe, in conjunction with timber, represents about 5 per cent of our total yearly production; all the rest is agriculture, and largely a diversified agriculture. There are wheat districts in our part of the State, but wheat does not concern us very much. We believe that the principles of the McNary-Haugen bill will also apply to our fat pork and fat cattle. Further west of us the range district. Mr. FuLmEer. May I ask you a question? Mr. WeLLER. Certainly. : Mr. FuLmer. There is a tariff, I believe, on wheat of 42 cents. Mr. WELLER. Yes, sir. Mr. Froyver. Do you get any benefit out of it? Mr. WELLER. Not that we can find at all. The spread between our local price and the Winnipeg price, I know at one time was 27 cents. I believe it was easily twice that during the war period. We grow hard wheat in our district; that spring wheat; very little winter wheat is grown there, and that gh protein winter wheat, at that. Mr. FoLmer. You say you the legislature? Mr. WELLER. The legislature created tural equality committee. I was apre mt others were appointed; there are three of us. So I might say we represent the 686,000 peops. vi South Dakota, outside of the mining regions. Mr. Frrsmer. Does that word “equality” in that name suggest trying to assist agriculture so as tc but it on an equality with other industries? Mr. WELLER That is my conception of it; yes, sir. Mr. FrLMER. Do the farmers in vour State generally know anv- thing about this proposed legislation? Mr. WELLER. Generally. Mr. FrLMmer. Are they for the equalization fee? Mr. WeLLEr. I will say that we have farmers whose feeling is that they are getting the worst of it. They discuss tariffs consid- erably. Iam frank to say some of them belicve the whole thing would be better solved to do away with special privilege to other industries. We do believe that special privileges have heen cranted to other industries. Qurs is commercial farming largely. Very little of the stuff that is grown on our farms goes on the farmer’s table. We sell our wheat and buy flour. We do cure our own bacon once in a while, but generally we take that to a little local packing house and give them 25 cents a slab for curing it. The point I was making by that reference was that we grow raw foods and sell raw foods, and with the money obtained therefor proceed to clothe ourselves and take care of the expense of our business and therefore is commercial farming. We use two-row ele- vators and tractors; and all that sort of thing—sometimes the larce tractors much to our recret. =

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