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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
Mr. Morcan. Yes, sir. } 
Mr. AsweLL. Was there any other farm measure explained to these 
ople vou speak about? 
_ {Tonoan, We very carefully discussed every bill. We tried 
to reach them with every other bill we knew of and explain it to all 
of them and just discussed it with them. 
Mr. AsweLL. That resolution says no substitute was offered. 
There were two bills that came very nearly being substituted. 
Mr. Morcan. We discussed all those bills, and they were gone 
into very carefully, obtaining copies of as many as we could. 
Mr. AsweLL. Your resolution says there was no substitute offered. 
Mr. Crisp and I both had bills that came near being substituted. 
Mr. Apkins. You represent the dark tobacco people? 
Mr. Morgan. Yes, sir; we have tried organization, starting many 
years back. We started in the first time more than 20 years ago, at 
the time we had no cooperative association marketing laws, and 1 
expect all of you gentlemen know the troubles we went through and 
the difficult time we had down there. It was simply the old, old 
story of the men that were in the organization making the price. 
We tried to force the other fellows to share part of the burden. They 
took the law into their hands, and we found within six or eight years 
it was not the proper way to do things. As a result, that was aban- 
doned and nothing was done about tobacco, and it remained at a low 
price, except during the war, until the bill was passed giving us 
agricultural legislation. 
Then we reorganized. Everything went along very well and we 
received 175,000,000 pounds of tobacco the first year. We held 
the price of tobacco to a fair and steady level of prices, with no 
fluctuation. Before we had this cooperative association, if one grade 
of tobacco were put in two baskets on the auction floor, one might 
bring $10 and the other $6. I have seen it as much as $10 difference 
between two baskets of tobacco of the same kind. It was absolutely 
speculation and gambling, and the farmer had to take the conse- 
quences. 
Mr. CLARKE. What is the present price of your tobacco? 
Mr. MoraGan. This year it is exceedingly hich. We have one of 
tne highest-priced crops we ever had. 
Mr. AswerLL. Higher than when your cooperative organization 
was operating? 
Mr. Morgan. I am coming to that a little later. 
Mr. AsweLL. Is it higher? 
gar, phansan It is considerably higher, yes, sir, than it has been 
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you Jo Es. What percentage of the total tobacco crop is the type 
; piatonesn. The oe normal crop of the United States is about 
000 000. ed million, I think, and our normal crop is 250.- 
his Country around tren 20 per cent of the tobacco grown in 
Ir. MoraGan. ; 
Mr. JoxeEs. Your pg 2 about 20 per cont. . . 
nuantities. is it not? obacco 1s exported in considerable