AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
Mr. FuLMeR. It is your belief that if the farmers were properly 
organized by the Government and they had the machinery or mar- 
keting system whereby they could market the farm products in an 
orderly manner they would not worry about the surplus in any of 
these farm commodities? 
Mr. Marer. Ido. We do not need to produce it. 
Mr. FuuMER. In other words, as it is the world needs every com- 
modity In your community as well as cotton in mine. And if we had 
orderly marketing and some way of distributing these farm products 
it would equalize things? 
Mr. Maser. My belief is that the world needs every particle of 
foodstuff or anything else the farmer can produce, and that this 
country should produce up to its capacity, and that it should not 
produce surpluses, because there are other things that could be sub- 
stituted in the areas where they do produce surpluses. 
Up with us where there is all wheat we produce the surplus and 
we get more for a poor than for a good crop, or else more for the crop 
when the world has a short crop. 
But if the production is regulated and the marketing is regulated 
there should be a “live and let live” price. I do not think the market 
should be placed at an exorbitant price, but it should be placed at a 
price the farmers would know what they are going to get, and then 
either grow it for that price or else not grow 1t for the price. 
Mr. FuLmer. Up there do you believe there is a real need for evolve 
Ing a system whereby you could eliminate the middlemen, a lot of 
these parasites between the producers and the consumers, which 
would bring about a better price for the producer and a lower price 
for the consumer? 
Mr. Manger. I certainly believe that the producer should have a 
better price, and I do believe *t could be delivered to the consumer 
at a lower price. 
Mr. Furmer. In place of the Government spending millions and 
millions to increase the farm production, is it your idea that they 
should spend quite a lot of money working out the marketing sys- 
tem and distribution system so as to bring about fair prices and re- 
search work to find out new uses for cotton and various other farm 
products? 
Mr. MaHER. I certainly do. That is just what the Agricultural 
Department is doing and has been doing for years, go ahead with that 
work and make the country produce; the more it produces the more 
we will get for our products. 
Mr. Apkins. One of the most vital things and important things in 
vour plan is adjusting production to the needs of consumption. Do 
vou not appreciate that to do that you would have to have some 
measure of control over your corn borers, the chinch bugs, and the 
weather, etc.? 
Mr. ManER 
Mr. Apxins 
weather man? 
Mr. Mauger. Well, the world has to live, and the statisticians and 
:conomists come pretty near knowing just about the acreage that 
the world wants in this crop or that crop or another crop, and what 
will feed the world or clothe the world. Then when a proper organi- 
tation has charge of what we are putting into the ground in the way of 
seed for a crop a year before it is put in, or the vear before they do 
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