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

2,4 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Mr. FuLMER. Are your farms in better shape out there now, than they were three or four or five years ago? Mr. WELLER. 1 would say not. No, sir; we have not recovered from the tremendous losses that we suffered during that war period, our farms carried on during that war period; for instance, our farmers carried on during that war period. I would happen to have a family of boys, say, who were too young to go to war, and undoubtedly with their help I might have accumulated quite a bit of profits during that period. But where we were paying for farm help the competition with the factory labor and the usual rate going, we run into the hole during that time. Following that, let me say, that is the thing we hear from down this part of our country in regard to the farmer being hard up as the result of his land speculation. There were some farms bought largely by a farmer whose boys would return from the war and he wanted to keep them at home and undertook to buy an adjoin- ing piece of land. But that money stayed there in our community in most all cases. There were cases where mortgages were issued. That money also stayed there for development. I believe that in our State not more than 5 per cert of the land changed hands during that period. We believed that money was very plentiful in America; that the price of our farm products was going to be permanently good in proportion to manufactured commodities. The land value is based largely upon the return of a year’s labor of the farmer. We believe that our land prices perhaps doubled. I might say that Mr. Crowler, who testified before your com- mittee yesterday, told about land prices in his district. He happens to be in a delta of the Missouri River, where the Missouri River is joined by the Sioux River. There 1s a large area of land in there that is somewhat exceptional. He talked about the houses and improvements in the Sioux River district. Their land prices, by yr largely based on the anxiety to keep themselves in Mr. KincHELOE. What do you raise right in your immediate country? ara crops. Corn, wheat, oats, barley; you might say all the Mr. KincHELOE. What is the principal agricultural product? : ? 2 Mig WELLER. Corn—half of our acreage is in oor: the rest 1s 1v | ed into alfalfa and sweet clover. Mr. Kincneroe. Do you think that tariff of 15 cents a bushel put on corn some time ago has been of much help to your people? o or. 0 mem, I would say that we run up against this proposi- Pacific const man. a Prod opm lt Soe Spo Cons, o had 1 . , ry or whatever use he had Ior corn, as he could get that from South America at the cheap ocean rates and he had a 15-cent duty to pay, it 1d shut hi tf South American to the extent of 15 Eni To ko en * lain of a large amount of corn coming f Se ink that that calm a club to beat down oa ng from South America was used as the way, for corn mow r corn market. We are getting 62 cents, by Mr. KiNcHELOE. Ye son of th e 42-con rand an wien farmers become prosperous by rea- Mr. We g es J aniff on boii oo hava is nothing to indicate that we get the 42-cent : . are aware that the hard wheat mixed with

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