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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF
Corn Belt Federation of Farm Organizations.
Executive committee of 22 of the North Central States Agricultural Confer-
ence.
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation.
Each of the 11 districts of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation.
Association of Commerce, Crowley, La.
Association of Commerce, Jennings, La.
Association of Commerce, Lake Charles, La.
Association of Commerce, Abbeville, La.
Association of Commerce, New Iberia, La.
Rotary Club, of Crowley, La.
Rotary Club, of Jennings, La.
Business Men’s Club, of Welsh, La.
tlllis Community Club, Louisiana.
Farmers’ mass meetings, Abbeville, Gueydan, Bayou Teche, New Iberia, and
Mamou, La.
American Rice Growers, of Lake Charles River, La.
Farm Bureau Rice Growers, of Baton Rouge, La.
Rice Farmers’ Credit Association of Crowley, La.
American Rice Growers, Beaumont, La.
American Rice Growers, Houston, La.
Southwest Louisiana Credit Association, Plice, La.
Juries of St. Martin Parish, Calcasieu Parish, and Vermillion, La.
Farmers’ Livestock Commission Co., National Stockyards, Illinois.
Evansville Producers’ Commission Association, Evansville, Ind.
Peoria Producers’ Commission Association, Peoria, Ill.
Missouri Farmers’ Association, Columbia, Mo.
North Dakota Wheat Growers’ Association, Grand Forks, N. Dak.
Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association, Montgomery, Ala.
Alabama Farm Bureau Federation, Montgomery, Ala.
Arkansas Cotton Growers’ Cooperative Association, Little Rock, Ark.
Dklahoma Cotton Growers’ Association, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Producers’ Cooperative Commission Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Board of directors, the Producers’ Commission Association, Indianapolis, Ind.
National Livestock Producers’ Association, Chicago, Ill.
Farmers’ Union of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebr.
Tennessee Cotton Growers’ Association, Memphis, Tenn.
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, Indianapolis, Ind. =.
Central States Soft Wheat Growers’ Association, Indianapolis, Ind.
Texas Cotton Growers’ Association.
Missouri Cotton Growers’ Association.
The committee held no extended hearings on the bill in the second session of
the Sixty-ninth Congress, but when the previous measure similar in purpose was
ander consideration there appeared before it favoring this legislation, in addition
to the above list, representatives of the Farmers’ Educational and Cooperative
Union of America; the Equity Cooperative Exchange of St. Paul; the Illinois
Agricultural Association; the American Council of Agriculture; the affiliated
farm organizations of Colorado; the South Dakota Wheat Growers’ Association
and the Governors of Iowa and South Dakota.
The legislation was indorsed by the American Federation of Labor, whose
spokesman testified for it before the committee. } }
During the hearings many States have by legislative memorial urged its enact-
ment, and it has been indorsed by thousands of individuals from all parts of
the United States, especially from the South and West.