AGRICULTURAL" RELIEF

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Hovse oF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE,
Friday, January 20, 1928.
The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 o'clock a. m,,
n the committee room. House Gffice Building, Hon. Gilbert XN.
Haugen presiding.
Present: Messrs. Haugen (chairman), Purnell, Hall, Fort, Andresen,
 Clark, Tlouston. Kincheloe, Swank, Rubies Ketcham, Pratt,
Adkins, Hope, Aswell, Jones, and Fulmer.
The CualrMAN. The committee will come to order. Doctor Kilsore,
 are you ready to proceed this morning?
Doctor KiLGorE. Yes, sir. As I stated yesterday, Mr. Bledsoe
and Mr. Stone, of the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association of
Mississippi wish to present the matter of the stabilization of cotton;
but, before they address you, I would like to introduce Mr. Whittington,
 Representative in Congress from Mr. Bledsoe’s and Mr.
Stone's district.

STATEMENT OF HON. W. M. WHITTINGTON, THIRD DISTRICT
OF MISSISSI: v

Mr. WaITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee,
[ wish to say just a word. I represent the third district in Mississippi,
and that district produced during the 1925 season more than 900,000
bales of cotton, and during the 1926 season more than 800,000 bales
of cotton, so that I am interested in the agricultural problem as I
am interested in no other question.
Mr. AsweLL. How much did you make this year, after the flood?
Mr. WarrtingTox. I did not get your question.
Mr. Asw, ‘Tow much was at re Juiced this year by reason of
the flood?
Mr. WaitTIvgToy. I would say that 700,000 acres of cultivated
land in my district was overflowed in 1927 and during the year probably
 10 per cent of that area was planted to cotton.
Mr. AsweLL. That is, after the flood subsisded?
Mr. WaiTTINGTON. After the flcod had subsisded, only a portion
of that land was planted; I should say 10 per cent of the entire flooded
irea was then planted to cotton.
But our advocacy of the insurance plan in the agricultural legislation
 of the second session of the Sixty-ninth Congress, Mr. Chairman
and gentlemen of the committee, was based upon the study and investigations
 of Mr. O. F. Bledsoe, the author and organizer of cooperative
 cotton marketing in Mississippi, supplemented by the fine
thought and analyses of Mr. A. H. Stone, also of Mississippi, and vice
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