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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
day in the daily papers a list of such products as it may have on hand for sale, 
together with the selling prices affixed. } 
It shall further be the duty of said board to devise methods of canning, or 
cold storage or otherwise to preserve and dispose of such perishable products as 
can not be disposed of as above. The price to be fixed on all such manufactured 
articles shall be the cost purchase price paid the farmer plus 20 per centum. 
In case products should accumulate and remain on hand unsold after due 
effort, the board shall be empowered to sell the same at public auction to the 
highest bidder at any time at their discretion. 
To meet the running expenses of the work the board is authorized to use the 
funds coming into their hands from the sale of the farm products above indicated, 
which shall include the payment of all salaries and other incidental expenses. 
Should this fund be found not sufficient to meet all such requirements, the further 
sum of $2,000,000, which is hereby appropriated out of any funds of the United 
States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, shall be immediately available for 
this purpose. 
The said Washington Agricultural Board shall be under the control of the 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and shall render to them a full 
accounting on June 30 and December 31 of each year. The said commissioners 
shall be empowered to settle all disputes or other matters arising from time to 
time upon which said members of the board can not agree. 
REMARKS ON THE PROPOSED BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF FARMERS AND FOR OTHER 
PURPOSES 
The accompanying bill will, if enacted i it i 
bo settle the minds = the farmers by BE 
Jae of getting no less a price for their produce than is definitely fixed upon before 
ey plant their crops. It does not stop them, however, in the least fr tti 
as much more as the market may afford. This it is thought i t . es 
in advance of anything the farmer has hitherto ever enjo od or " il Tt ge Bid 
but on the other hand will be probably SL and at th same i 4 
have as great an advantage to the consumer also as it contd ibl be to th ro 
ducer. For by its provisions the consumer can b ivil edt %  oactically 
direct from the producer and have the goods delivered to his BO eh 
he farmer received for it, plus 10 : isi 
aia oh ving Ch aap Soot un Kosi may be. This is also 
corner grocery under the present system in many ca oe G d gn Low oh dns 
of this proposed bill the long-talked-of-middl Yan is ner I RP tnated. 
The feature in the bill of the consumer bein vide % it geantionlly 
his produce delivered direct to his house iv i% tho od en BE 
lent one and will meet a long-felt want, for as it ought is also another most excel 
producer and consumer to find each +, Tor s it is now it is difficult indeed for the 
Ge gases out of a hundred is in a position to cb he Hey 
n the case of th i ’ : 
ton, livestock, — A oh ene tar ars Pot Go wheot, gor, 
ars wl 1h catild sat The wey 9, course of the agricultural board on the 
under the protection of a minimum price es Ho in pub of sah Heras 
$320k piles us Uh olen Mteh ener, c a would necessarily be only about 
that the supply of these articles fro L y on the average. If it should happen 
where, it would still, it is thought, b : > oe TK Ce 
extent of the minimum price until th 8 good {ing to pimifie $a fpr $0 the 
as it would be by the agricultural b ¢ general supply could be better regulated, 
tained thereby fall on the whole oard system later, and thus to let the loss sus- 
a Somparatively few individual rou aig 1. Gh Same of tamss rather fins on 
n the case of farm : . . 
eatiy vonsialon, he products Jowa oly in certain tropical sections, such as 
no change A —  Pionpy 2 and the like, and reaching remote markets, 
by 33 e provisions of this proposed bill, protusets would i snywiss he affected 
ere is s0 much wr iy . 
that it is hard for hui Fr U he proven system in vogue of handling farm produce 
doing so at length because I know th welling on, te sijent bok { poipaln frou 
duty of dealing with this comple $ master minds who are entrusted with the 
[ am. Ttis possibly sufficient for subject are as fully aware of these WIOAES, A 
else in the world, in mv Porto mo here to say that farming, above everything 
i nt. is a local issue. It was so in the beginning.