INDEX 



Adamson Law, effect on farm costs: 376 



Agricultural Adjustment Act: origins of, 

 452; effect on wheat prices, 467; omnibus 

 character of, 468; Thomas amendment to, 

 470; declared unconstitutional, 501 



Agricultural Adjustment Act (1938): signed 

 by Roosevelt, 518; attacked, 531; proposed 

 changes in, 535 



Agricultural Adjustment Administration: 

 personnel, 471; on wheat, 474; livestock, 

 475-77; dairy farming, 478; opposition to, 

 482, 484; dissensions in, 487; butter prob- 

 lem, 489; complaints against, 490; on 

 drought of 1934, 495-96; acreage reduc- 

 tions, 497; support for, 503, 506; seeks uni- 

 form warehouse laws, 517; criticisms of, 

 520; supported by South, 541; evaluated, 



557 



Agricultural credit: sponsored by govern- 

 ment, 84; Federal Farm Loan Act, 86; 

 North Dakota program, 192; demands for 

 (1923), 337; legislation on, 339; pro- 

 posed liberalization of, 384; under New 

 Deal, 498; state programs for, 560 



Agricultural Credits Act (1923): terms of, 



339 



Agricultural education: federal promotion 

 of, 28; promotes cooperative marketing, 

 67; agricultural economics, 68; effect on 

 production, 108; criticized by Equity, 129; 

 Nonpartisan program for, 175-76; Farm- 

 ers' Union on, 227, 229 



Agricultural Marketing Act: stimulates co- 



operatives, 286, 288; terms of, 407; prece- 

 dents for, 408; repeal demanded, 430; 

 amendments proposed, 433 

 Agricultural prices: see Farm prices 

 Agricultural Wheel, southern farm order: 



54i 



Agriculture, Department of: created, 28; in- 

 vestigates cooperatives, 65-66; on bank 

 loans, 103; urges better farming methods, 

 108; promotes county-agent system, 261; 

 relations with Farm Bureau, 283; on co- 

 operative marketing, 287; Bureau of Mar- 

 kets, 334; on farm prices, 376; proposed 

 marketing board, 385; Division of Co- 

 operative Marketing, 395; A.A.A. pro- 

 gram, 471; studies crop insurance, 508; 

 personnel reorganized, 522 



Agriculture, Secretary of: powers over pack- 

 ers, 327-28; proposed price-fixing powers, 

 382; domestic allotments, 461; powers un- 

 der A.A.A., 468 



Allen, Harvey J., Kansas governor: 350 



American Farm Bureau Federation: interest 

 in cooperatives, 58; appeals to middle 

 western farmers, 212; rivals Nonpartisan 

 League, 213-14; origins of, 255; reasons 

 for growth, 266; Chicago meeting (1919), 

 267; resolutions, 269; March (1920) meet- 

 ing, 270; information service, 271; growth 

 of, 272; promotes production, 285; sup- 

 ports Grain Marketing Company, 300; 

 Committee of Fifteen, 305; defends F.F.B., 

 423; favors inflation, 467; county agents in 



