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and put into operation a syste i istributi 
field such a way that they will i eo Bir ering Vie protyis of fin 
tion will permit. 
L just called attention to that to show you gentlemen.that for a 
long, long time I have made a study of the subject. I was talking 
then just as I am talking now, for the reason that anyone who has 
studied it as I did could see what was coming—the great breakdown 
of agricultural interests, the hundreds of thousands of farms that 
have been foreclosed—and all this, of course, could have been avoided 
if we had had what I was appealing for and urging 17 years ago. 
Now we have gotten to a point where something is actually neces- 
sary, some action. What can that be? It does not make any dif- 
ference what legislation is enacted; it does not make any difference 
what action is taken; eventually and finally this proposition will pre- 
vail. This will be the final solution of agriculture, to meet the de- 
mand, placing it on as solid a basis as financial interests and manu- 
facturing. It has got to come, and it has got to come in this way: 
[t has got to come under a control. 
Mr. Apkins. If I get your idea correctly, speaking of organization, 
this country has got all sorts of commodity organizations. 
Mr. Yoakum. I know it has. 
Mr. Apkins. And every other sort of organization. 
Mr. Yoakum. I know it has. 
Mr. Apkins. If I got your idea correctly, it is to have some 
enabling legislation so that these various organizations may be 
amalgamated. 
Mr. Yoakum. That is it; you have covered the whole thing. 
Mr. Apkins. To get Mr. Yoakum’s record straight, he refers and 
puts in a quotation of America’s wheat associations? 
Mr. Yoakum. Yes. 
Mr. Apkins. The overhead being from 14 tn 20 cents? 
Mr. Yoakum. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Apkins. But he goes on and says the local cooperatives are 
14 to 46. 
Mr. Yoakum. They have still got another to contend with. 
Mr. Apkins. The point I want to make is this: He refers to the 
wheat pool in Indiana. We have a number of them in the North- 
west. Canada has one. Your theory is that you must have a 
Government agency to sort of amalgamate them into one organiza- 
tion? 
Mr. Yoakum. No. .You are getting it wrong—not a Government 
agency, but a farmers’ agency under Federal authority and operated 
under Federal charter. 
Mr. Apkins. Do you know of all these agencies, the wheat pool in 
Indiana, of which I know a good many men who belong, and the 
wheat pool of the Northwest—do you know of any reason why under 
the present law that they can not amalgamate and operate now? 
Mr. Yoakum. Yes, sir; they are absolutely unorganized in a 
aational way. a 
Mr. Apkins. Yes; I say they have authority of law to orgamze 1 
they want to? This pterstate proposition 
Mr. AKUM, s 1s an interstate p . 
Mr Amari Answer my question. Under the law they could 
preanize?