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:: 1831934515

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232102

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 4

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 255 - 297

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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278 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Mr. KiLgorE. No, sir. Mr. Aswern. Or something like that? Mr. KiLcore. Not that much. Mr. AsweLL. It might be around that? Mr. KiLcorEe. I think—— Mr. AsweLL. And the manager in Alabama, how much did he get? Mr. KiLgore. Around, I think, $7,500 as general manager. Mr. Aswiir. The farmers claim there is too much overhead cost; and then your exchange comes along and adds another height to the sky of $300,000. That is what is the matter with the cooperatives— it 1s overhead expense. Mr. KiLcore. I think you are wrong. Thirty cents a bale is not a large expenditure. Mr. AswerL. That is on top of the cooperative expenses. The $300,000 is extra, what you might call a super-superb capstone, that is the word. Myr. KiLcore. That is a very popular position taken by those who are not over enthusiastic about cooperative associations. Mr. AswrroL. I am a member of a cooperative, and 1 think the overhead is what is causing the trouble. Mr. KiLcore. There is not any such extravagant expense In any of the cooperatives that I know about. There is not in North Carolina; and the expenses in the exchange—- Mr. AsweLn, How many people came up here from North Caro- {ina with you this time? Mr. KiLcore. I am by myself. Mr. AsweLL. You are? 1 thought you had some help. Mr. KiLcork. No; I have no help; in fact, there is no one here from the exchange except myself. Mr. ANDERSON. You are keeping your expenses pretty well down, are you? Mr. KiLcore. Yes. The position I hold in the exchange as chair- man of the board of trustees and, in my own State, as president of the association, are honorary and not salaried positions. I stated a minute ago that in the decline of the cotton cooperative marketing associations, with the weight and burden of the surplus of the crops of 1925 and 1926 on their backs, is the reason for farm relief legislation—the McNary-Haugen bill without the equilization fee with Doctor Aswell, and with the equalization fee with me and my group of associations. Mr. AnprESEN. Doctor Kilgore, when you appeared before this committee two years ago, the equalization fee was somewhat of a contention at that time. If I recall correctly, your organization did not want the equalization fee; you did not believe it was feasible, and you did not think it would work out as to cotton. So, at that time you asked for a loan fund for cooperatives. You have changed your opinion altogether. Mr. KiLcore. We asked for a deferment of the equalization fee mn often two years. It was a new thing with us at that time. H angen bill. Jou gentlemen know, had not supported the McNary- hers , with the exception of just a scattering vote here and The cotton cooperatives did not become interested in the McNar " . "yy -~ Haugen bill until the surplus crop of 1925: and we came here first in

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