AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
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Mr. Apkins. Our cooperating agency over here in the department 
has recently issued—you ought to get it—the outlook for the next 
season, based on all the information available as to what the out- 
look on about 61 commodities is now. So that we are already getting 
to the farmers the information that would be sort of keeping him 
informed on the matter of acreage on any commodity. 
Mr. Hare. That only supplements what I said, that we could take 
those agencies already in operation by the Government, take the 
products of their labors, hand it to the commodity organization of the 
farmers, and they would understand by the passage of this act that 
if the acreage for any particular commodity or crop was increased 
over and above the average acreage for the five years previous thereto, 
the benefits of the act would not be available. The bill to which I 
am inviting your attention has that provision in it. 
Mr. CLarkE. Have you a copy of that bill you have introduced? 
Mr. HARE. Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman, the time, as I understand, 
is about up, and I will not be able to go further into the details of the 
operation of this bill this morning, but I would like to have an oppor- 
tunity to discuss it further and enlarge upon its provisions later. 
Mr. KincHELOE. You have 20 minutes more. 
Mr. Hare. Then, I shall be glad to go further into it now. 
Mr. Apkins. How do you propose to handle this surplus? That 
is the main thing. 
Mr. Hare. My idea is this: I hate to repeat, but with the finan- 
cial agencies existing sufficiently strong to finance any agricultural 
operation, with a warehousing system already provided and in 
operation for storing and taking care of any surplus, and with the 
cooperative marketing division in the Department of Agriculture, 
coordinating their activities should be able to handle the surplus. 
In this bill we would have a board quite similar to that in all of the 
other farm relief bills, whose duty it would be to see whether a sur- 
plus of any farm commodity exists, and if a surplus is found to 
exist, and the organized farmers request it, this board will arrange 
with the financing agency, arrange with the warehousing system 
and arrange with the cooperative marketing division for the organized 
producers, for instance, wheat growers or cotton growers, to take 
the surplus of such particular crop off of the market through coop- 
erative organization, just as they are trying to do to-day. 
Mr. Funmer. And under vour bill these various agencies—the 
financial agency and the others, would function under an emergency 
like that, when brought to the attention of the agencies by this 
board representing agriculture. } 
Mr. Hare. Pretty much in the same way as provided for in the 
Haugen bill, the Curtis-Crisp bill, the Aswell bill and the other 
outstanding bills proposed for farm relief. nN 
Mr. KiNCHFLOE. What are the fundamental differences between 
your bill and the Crisp-Curtis bill that was considered in the last 
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rE. If I understand it, that bill provides for a board that 
will enable individuals, or cooperative associations to take charge 
and care for the surplus of any commodity, without regard to the 
ination of existing governmental agencies. 
“ bill proposes a legislative program that will bring fs fees 
agencies together, and let them operate through one board,