INDEX 



erican tariff policy, 329; third-party move- 

 ments, 343; exports wheat to U.S., 375; 

 durum production, 483 

 Cannonism, middle western opposition to: 



54 



Capper, Arthur: Kansas governor, 189; 

 favors cooperatives, 288; farm-bloc leader, 

 324; supports progressive bloc, 336; cam- 

 paigns for Kellogg, 347; in U. S. Senate, 

 428; criticizes A.A.A., 523; favors "cost of 

 production," 533; farm spokesman, 550 



Capper-McFadden bill, for rural credits: 

 338 



Capper-Tincher Act, to protect cooperatives: 

 299 



Capper-Volstead Act: legalizes cooperatives, 

 288; supported by farm bloc, 334 



Capper-Williams bill, to aid cooperatives: 

 289, 384 



Central Cooperative Livestock Commission 

 Association: policy of, 246; successes, 247, 

 303 3o8 



Certificate payment plan: proposed, 535; ex- 

 plained, 536 



Cheese industry: in Wisconsin, 70; market- 

 ing methods, 311, 313; cooperatives, 315; 

 F.F.B. program for, 427; overproduction, 

 530 



Chicago: industrial district, 6; livestock mar- 

 keting in, 84, 265; Farm Bureau meeting 

 (1919), 267; milk strike, 309 



Chicago Board of Trade: rejects coopera- 

 tive's application, 299; wheat prices 

 (1930), 416 



Clayton, W. L., cotton merchant: 398 



Clayton Anti-Trust Act: protects coopera- 

 tives, 84; proposed amendment to, 257; 

 modified, 334 



Cloverdale, John W., Farm Bureau leader: 

 270 



Cogswell, C. C., opposes New Deal: 533 



Colleges of agriculture: national support for, 

 28; interest in cooperative marketing, 

 67-68 



Committee of Forty-Eight: urges third party, 

 344; in campaign of 1924, 359 



Communists: opposed by La Follette, 360; 

 denounce C.P.P.A., 365 



Conference for Progressive Political Action: 

 activities, 357; in campaign of 1924, 361 



Coolidge, Calvin: on farm conditions, 289; 

 raises duty on wheat, 375; calls agricul- 

 tural conference, 383; addresses Farm 

 Bureau, 387; endorses marketing bill, 393; 

 appoints cotton committee, 397; vetoes 

 McNary-Haugen bill, 399; vacation in 

 South Dakota, 400; advice to farmers, 554 



Cooper, Pliny E., Equity Exchange leader: 



137 



Cooperative Farmers' Northwest Grain 

 Corporation, opposes national marketing 

 agency: 412 



Cooperative marketing: early growth of, 

 56-58; Rochdale plan, 59; experimental 

 stage, 60; legal status of, 63; among dairy- 

 men, 69; butter producers, 71; grain mar- 

 keting, 74; elevators, 77; livestock, 81; 

 Equity plans for, 119; aided by Scandi- 

 navians, 133; Farmers' Cooperative Busi- 

 ness Congress, 222; Farmers' Union ac- 

 tivities, 238-52; Farm Bureau, 265, 271, 

 273; controversies over, 280; favored by 

 Grange, 285; postwar development, 286; 

 wheat pooling, 291-97; rising tide of, 301; 

 marketing agencies, 304; by creameries, 

 313; by cheese producers, 315; discrimi- 

 nations against, 327; national support of, 

 404; status in 1929, 410; federal credits for, 

 500 



Cooperative Marketing, Division of: 288, 



395 



Corn and Agricultural Area Marketing Con- 

 ference, meets in Des Moines: 389 



Corn belt: extent of, 8; tenancy in, 14; limits 

 to expansion, 21; affected by World War I, 

 94; fluctuation of land prices, 102; mar- 

 keting program in, 280; A.A.A. policy to- 

 ward, 477; attitude toward New Deal, 

 519-22 



