AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
House oF REPRESENTATIVES, 
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, 
Tuesday, January 17, 1928. 
The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 o'clock a. m. in the 
committee hearing room, House Office Building, Hon. Gilbert N. 
Haugen presiding. 
Present: Messrs. Haugen (chairman), Purnell, Williams of Illi- 
nois, Ketcham, Hall, Pratt, Fort, Menges, Andresen, Adkjns, Aswell, 
Kincheloe, Jones, Swank, Fulmer, Rubey, Doyle, and McSweeney. 
The CHairMAN. The committee will kindly come to order. 
We will now hear these farm organizations. Who do you desire 
to call first? 
Mr. SETTLE. We introduce Mr. Thompson, who has a few remarks 
to make to you. 
The CHAIRMAN. We will “rar 
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Mr. THoMpsoN. Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen of the committee, 
I am president. of the American Farm Bureau Federation, but this 
morning I am spokesman for this group of organizations that have 
been working together for farm legislation, who have set forth the 
policies in the different bills and are in acreement with the funda- 
mental principles as set forth in House bill No. 7940, believing that 
those are the principles that should be incorporated in legislation that 
would become a permanent policy for agriculture. 
The different organizations we represent here, after we counciled 
together, are the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Corn Belt 
Federation of Farm Organizations, composed of the Missouri Farm 
Association, the National Producers Alliance, the Iowa Farm Union, 
the Iowa Farm Bureau, the Iowa State Grange, the Jowa Thresher- 
men’s Association, the Ottumwa Iowa Dairy Marketing Association, 
the Nebraska Farmers Union, the Nebraska Farm Bureau, the Kansas 
Farm Union, the Kansas Farm Bureau, the Minnesota Farmers 
Union, the Minnesota Farm Bureau, the Minnesota Wheat Growers, 
the South Dakota Producers Alliance, the South Dakota Wheat 
Growers Association, the South Dakota Farmers Union, the North 
Dakota Farmers Union, the North Dakota Wheat Growers Associa- 
tion, the Oklahoma Farmers Union, the Indiana Farm Bureau, the 
Central States Soft Wheat Growers Association, the Chicago Milk 
Producers Association, the Illinois Farmers Union, the Wisconsin 
Cooperative Creamery Association, the Wisconsin Farm Bureau, the 
Equity Cooperative Exchange, the Farmers Union Terminal Associa- 
tion, the South St. Paul Farmers Union Livestock Commission 
House, the Chicago Farmers Union Livestock Commission House.