President Roosevelt Backs 

 New Farm Bill 



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 — -^^RooLvtlt on tlic proposed 

 ^J Agruultural Adjustincnt Act 

 of 19^"'. ^ivcn in a recent press conttr- 

 cnce, IS the most important develop- 

 ment in Washington on tins measure 

 in recent weeks. At a conference of 

 farm leaders in Washington early in 

 June farm groups which represent the 

 major producing sections ot the coun- 

 try, pledged their support to the bill 

 now before the Congress. J 



A letter to President Roosevelt 

 signed by 2i of these farm leaders 

 pointed out that the large acreages 

 already planted to the basic agricultural 

 commodities are such that it followed 

 with normal growing conditions, will 

 result in burdensome surpluses and 

 serious declines in the price levels for 

 such commodities." 



President Karl ( . Smith of the lAA 

 who was chosen by the farm confer- 

 ence to explain the bill to the House 

 and Senate Agricultural Committees, 

 sets the measure as the soundest, 

 most etfective. and defensible law yet 

 proposed for the permanent solution 

 of the basic farm |>foblem". In a signed 

 .statement appearing on the editorial 

 p.ige of the June RFC ORD. Mr Smith 

 wrote : This bill is 

 directed primarily 

 toward control ot 

 stirplus supplies. 

 and production 

 control becomes ef 

 fective only when 

 excess s u p p I i e s 

 d e V e I o p. a n d 

 then . only to the 

 extent of bringing 

 supplies to the nor 



mal level 



Thinking people in 

 business, industry 

 and government as 

 well as in agricul 

 Jure recognize the 

 value and need ot 

 maintaining s u r - 

 pluses ot basic 

 farm commc>dities 

 at all times. Un 

 less controlled, sur- 

 plu.ses unduly de- 



press price levels. Theretore if we 

 are to accumulate and m.iintain sur- 

 plus supplies, it is necessary that they 

 be ab.solutely controlled." 



Secretary of Agriculture. Henry A. 

 Wallace appeareil before the House 

 Agricultural (Committee the week fol- 

 lowing the appearance of President 

 Smith. Answering a c^uestion of Con- 

 gressman Mitchell as to the necessity 



is any justification for control of pro- 

 duction unless we curb the importation 

 of pork and livestock products.''" 



Secretary Wallace: "My dear sir, 

 you will never be forced to eat pork 

 products imported into this country if 

 you have the ever-normal granary. It 

 is only in times when we have serious 

 curtailment ot grain production that 

 the importation of pork products takes 



^ectetaxu Wallace ^uppotti Aieaiute in 

 ■ff eating Senate -(iallcultutal 3ommittQQ 



of the "control feature" of the bill 

 to secure parity and stabilize agricul- 

 tural prices. Wallace replied: "That 

 depends on the weather . . unless 

 we are to have a repetition ot the 

 l\irm Board situation, it would be nec- 

 essary to step in with some control pro- 

 gram, that IS if we had several years 

 of favorable weather". 



A moment later C!ongressman C^offee 

 of Nebraska intervened with this state- 

 ment : "I am |ust wonileririg what 

 lustilication we can have forr control 

 of proiliiction or sale of commodities 

 when we allow imports to come into 

 this lOuntrv with as low a taritT as 



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think there 



THE NEW HIRED MAN FROM THE CITY BRINGS HOME THE PIGS. 



place, times such as we have had in 

 the droughts of 19.^1 and 1936. That 

 cut down our output of corn by a bil- 

 lion bushels under normal, and that 

 resulted in a very greatly reduced sup- 

 ply of pork. In such cases, of course, 

 pork will come in over the tariff wall. 

 But ordinarily we will export, I do not 

 know, but I would sa^t^OO times as 

 much as we import." 



Answering criticism of Rep. Boileau, 

 Wisconsin, regarding the effect of the 

 bill on dairying, the Secretary said: 

 "It this bill were enacted and you 

 had more than the usual supply of 

 feed grain, on,e year to the next, or 

 corn from year to year, or wheat from 

 year to year, the 

 result w o u I d be 

 to a void these 

 very wide fluctua- 

 tions in butter pro- 

 duction, for in- 

 stance, and t h e 

 western cream pro- 

 duction. And the 

 effect would be to 

 keep out this sud- 

 den rush from hog 

 farming into dairy- 

 ing which took 

 plate during the 

 early thirties, and 

 we took more than 

 the usual supply of 

 dairy products. On 

 the other hand 

 there would be the 

 exercise of the 

 power which we 

 have under the di- 



(Cotit. on pjge 22) 



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