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:: 1831935406

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232218

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 9

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 591 - 642

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Fred H. Sexauer, Executive Secretary Dairymen's League Cooperative Association (inc.) New York City

Collection:: Economics Books

656 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF dairy business very largely—North Carolina and even in my State of South Carolina. Mr. Sexaugr. That is the report we get from various condensers in our conversations with them. Mr. FuLumER. And I might say that that is brought about by the condition of the farmers in their other lines of activity. Mr. SExXAUER. Yes, sir. Mr. Hore. What is your market; is it a local market or do you go outside of your own territory to quite an extent? Mr. SExavER. We market our fluid milk locally to the extent that needs fluid milk; and beyond that we market cream in the local and other cream markets, and the remainder we sell to manu- facturers or among ourselves in the form of condensed milk, milk powder, cheese, butter, etc. Mr. Hore. One thing I wanted to get at was whether this Middle- West growth in the dairy industry would really enter into competition with you people if it should develop to quite an extent? Mr. SexAaugRr. It absolutely would. If they produced butter and the prices of butter became unprofitable, that milk would find its way into condensed milk, bring down the price of condensed milk, and then the condenser, not wishing to condense his milk turns to the cream market and endeavors to dispose of his products there. This, in turn, forces the producer of cream to turn to the fluid-milk market, which in turn creates a surplus in the fluid-milk market, thus depressing the whole price level downward. There is this interrelation between the price of butter and the price of other milk commodities, and it is immaterial, so far as we can see, where the product is produced, so long as it is produced in this coun- try and brings about a condition where we are facing less tariff due to the fact that we have become an export nation of dairy products. Mr. ANDRESEN. I might say to the gentleman form Kansas that that the production of Minnesota butter has doubled since 1920, and to-day we are producing a hundred million pounds more butter per year than any other State in the Union. Mr. CLARKE. Are not the cooperatives primarily responsible for developing the quantity of production and elevating the standard of quality? Mr. ANDRESEN. Greatly. One of our principal markets for butter is down here. Mr. KiNcHELOE. Is not the biggest dairy State Wisconsin? Mr. AnprESEN. Not in butter. Mr. SExAUER. I might say right there that the most serious condition with which we are faced in cream is the cream from Wis- consin, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and similar points; that 1s the most serious condition which we face in cream. Mr. CrargEe. Allow me to say to the gentleman that I represent the greatest dairy district in the United States and probably in the world, in the production of fluid milk, and yet to-day the Land O’Lakes butter is being sold in my district. Mr. SeExauEiR. I might say also that they ship carloads and car- loads of cream into Congressman Clarke’s territory for the manu- facture of cream cheese, which also comes in competition with our dairy products. So we have a very distinct interest in what happens to agriculture in other sections of the country.

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