AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
alone; they deal in other things as well. But it would possibly 
hurt the corner grocer often a little; I am not saying it would not. 
But we can not stop for that. 
And it places in the hands of the consumer the power which I 
think they should have, of using their telephone and sending in their 
order for farm products at wholesale market prices, which I think is 
richt. They ought to have the privilege of buying it at these prices 
They can do it, that now 1t is true, but the reason they do not do it 
is because everybody has not a truck and everybody has not got an 
Saiamapils and everybody does not feel like going to market at 
o'clock in the morning, and standing and waiting 1 
be done, but it is not reasonable. © siting in gam. Is con 
Mr. ANDERSEN. It seems to me everybody 1 i 
ay, A ybody in Washington has an 
Mr. BootH. Yes; but everybody does not get ! 
night. All the marketing is practically sold by suntp. 3 o'clock af 
Mr ANDERSEN. A lot of them do not go to bed until 3 o’clock. 
yond Boom. That is true. But, to be practical that places it be- 
There is not any reason on earth why the ci i 
could not establish cold-storage houses to store a evasion 
corn, and keep it for a day or so, or if they do not care to k the 
tomatoes, let it start a cannery. I have a cannery on 1 ol . 
fad 1 can anything that grows out of the ground to 10 pitas” 
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L can : o it and the Government can do 1t, and if they can not I 
il tell them how. It will not cost them a cent. In this vicinit 
within 25 miles of Washington, there is a great deal of Suff thro oh 
away. I took a ride down along the Eastern Sh , d I un. 
dreds of acres of canteloupes going to wast They we aw fone 
them. This is the condition around the cit y {WwW oF rould nog plok 
1s a condition all over the United States of Wasmnzion snd inst 
~ L'his 1s serious, and a little bi i z 
1s what the farmers want; nd ever along aio lines 1 am saying 
his pocket if you give him a minimum price. in which he wil ba 
able to say, “I know I can at least got 15 PYe% Iu Wich he wil bs 
sugar corn and that is ach hors g 5 or 20 cents a dozen for my 
better, I will stop growing that om aipnothing. If I can not do 
1t 1 1ts disposal of serving th OO nh, ais od gpl Yay 
allowing it to waste on the farm or aay with that instead of 
it to the market and afterwards oe allowing the farmers to bring 
does not seem to me it would tak rowing it out along the road. It 
of Congressmen like this to o hot w much intelligence for a body 
done. It certainly can be doe that hat I am advocating can be 
pension’ he is a hizhomin log one, and, the Ftp does not want a 
- . 0 not want any pension from 
Mr Apkins. Hay 
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Mr. Bootn. | oe ba draped i it i 
a skeleton. I have mot thors: ed; yes, sir, but it is nothing but 
I have offered it and it is ith it would be a complete bill.” Bus 
ab ; our os with the chairman of the committee. It is 
0 not represent anyb : 
of the community, and raph except the interests, I believe, 
zet anvthing out of it for mvself y Lam too far along in years to 
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