570 



INDEX 



nal agencies, 303; disputes with Farm 

 Bureau, 306; calls conference, 386; split 

 over F.F.B., 429; favors price fixing, 433; 

 on cow- testing program, 438; favors infla- 

 tion, 467; on cost of production, 534; sup- 

 ports certificate payment plan, 537; con- 

 tributions of, 544 



Farmers' Union Terminal Association, criti- 

 cized: 431 



Farm Holiday Association: objects of, 435; 

 national convention, 447; proposes mar- 

 keting strike, 448, 450; criticizes A.A.A., 

 482; major offensive of, 485 



Farm labor: skill required, 25; lure of the 

 city, 26; returns from, 99-100; rising cost 

 of, 107 



Farm Management, Office of, aids county- 

 agent work: 263 



Farm prices: in early 1900*5, 21; lowness re- 

 sented, 22; effect of World War I, 90-91; 

 price of wheat fixed, 92; livestock, 94-96; 

 dairy products, 97; decline after war, 100; 

 Equity price-fixing plans, 120; farm-bloc 

 policy on, 334, 337; La Follette on, 367; 

 during 1920*5, 375-76; McNary-Haugen- 

 ism, 381-82; cotton, 397; wheat, 414; 

 Grain Stabilization Corporation supports, 

 417, 423; wheat prices advance, 467; de- 

 mands for price fixing, 477; reflect discon- 

 tent, 479; fluctuation, 481; Wallace on 

 price fixing, 522; wheat stabilization, 524; 

 campaign for price fixing, 525; cost-of- 

 production bill, 532-34; effect of World 

 War II, 537 



Farm Security Administration: absorbs Re- 

 settlement Administration, 510; La Forge 

 (Missouri) project, 516 



Farm strike: begins in Iowa, 435; acts of 

 violence, 441; mass meetings, 442; organi- 

 zation of, 443; political effect, 446; breaks 

 up forced sales, 448; attack on an Iowa 

 judge, 449 



Federal Farm Board: Farmers' Union sup- 

 ports, 248; bill to establish, 398; created, 

 407; criticisms of, 410; offers loans to co- 



operatives, 413; creates Grain Stabilization 

 Corporation, 417; urges acreage reduc- 

 tions, 419; livestock-marketing program, 

 424; dairy program, 426; inadequacies 

 admitted, 452; on domestice allotment 

 plan, 462-63; inflationary tendencies, 467; 

 evaluated, 556 



Federal Farm Credit system, headed by 

 Morgenthau: 465 



Federal Farm Loan Act: provides rural 

 credits, 86; lowers interest rates, 102; pro- 

 posed changes in, 325; constitutionality 

 upheld, 331 



Federal Farm Loan Board, powers ex- 

 tended: 339 



Federal Intermediate Credit Banks: estab- 

 lished (1923), 339; powers, 340; proposed 

 credit policy, 384; during New Deal, 500 



Federal Land Banks: established, 86; loan 

 policy, 499; incorporated in F.C.A., 500 



Federal Relief Emergency Administration, 

 aids drought area: 494 



Federal Reserve System: credit policy, 330; 

 proposed changes in, 333, 335; Board criti- 

 cized, 337 



Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, estab- 

 lished: 477 



Federal Trade Commission, investigates 

 packers: 326 



Federal Warehouse Act, proposed amend- 

 ment to: 509 



Folk, Joseph W.: Missouri reformer, 50; at- 

 tends farmers' convention, 225 



Food Administration: during World War I, 

 93-96; advised by Nonpartisan League, 

 1 80 



Food Control Act: in World War I, 92; in- 

 fluenced by Nonpartisan Leaguers, 206 



Food supply: decline of, 25; anxiety about, 

 28 



Fordney-McCumber Act: tariff measure, 

 334; repudiated by Preus, 354; La Fol- 

 lette's position on, 366; uselessness to 

 farmers, 374 



Frank, Jerome, counsel for A.A.A.: 487 



