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I Iiml in mind als«> what I think is tlio ncpd, ui>t only in nj^ricul- 

 liir.il (li^ti-iliiition Init in «list ?-il»iit ion «r«'ni'r;illy. thi* intmsifiiMl uso, 

 of niiirkcts ('los4> at lian<l instrad of an attciiipt to sprrad tlu> distril)n- 

 tion all ovvv the I'nitcd States. l>oranse it is cJu'aiH'r to i-eil to a Imn- 

 dird (iistorncis who livo within a radius of l(M) or 'joo miles than t«> 

 sell to a himdi'ed <iistoin»'i's scattn-rd all over the I'nitcd States. T 

 ilo not know that this |>ro|)osition is an extension proposition par- 

 ticularly: I do not know that we iu»ve a hasis ufxni which it could 

 he made part of the extension work, hut I think that is the real 

 a«i'ii(idtural pi'»>l>lcni t«»-day. If we could a|>ply onedniiuli'edth |)art 

 of what the department of .Vj^ricuitui'c now knows aiiout produc- 

 tion to that piohlem, we would not ne»'d to make much research 

 for some time to come. 



Not that I think we (Mi^dit (<> sii:p iln' nscaich unrU. l»ul I think 

 oui" piohleni tiiei'e is one of the ajjplication of known methods to a 

 far «rreater extent than it is the development of new methods. That. 

 1 think, is the joh which the extension service has. Hut heyond 

 tiiat I thiid\ our problem is lar«rely one of orpiniz»'<l pr(»ductifin. 

 la'cause I can not see very much hope of improxin^ I'ither produc- 

 tion or di.striltution methods without a sounder or<rani/.ation of 

 prcMJuction itself. In other words, with the unor^^anized character 

 of the industry all that, you "rentlemen can do to a larjre extent is 

 to send \\\) a general harra^e. in the hope that sonu» of it is «roing 

 to hit .some part of the problem, ^'ou (an handle a *rno(I many in- 

 di\ idual cases. an<l doubtless you do. but yet a lar<re part of our etfoit. 

 I tliiidv, is wasted, because we Inne not the or<jani/,ation of pro<Iuc- 

 tion to make it efrecti\-e. That is what is in my mind. 



Mr. C'hui.stik. Mr. Chairman, that is an excellent idea, and one 

 that I think e\ery man in the a<rricultural collejres will a<:ree to. 



Our a<rrieultural colle^'es are doin^ somethin«r al()n<r tliat line. 

 '\Ve have been handitapi)ed during the war, due to the extremely 

 ]ii<;h |)rices and the wiHin<iness of the trade to receive almost any- 

 thin<j:. VCv do find in our di.stricts. for instance, many varieties of 

 wheat, numy of them of |)ooi- (|uality. because the millers have not 

 been willin«r to stand by the <;ra(le and reimburse a fellow a little 

 extra for the pood quality. But to-day the millers are realizinjr that 

 they can cut down the hijrh frei<rht rate if they will use the «rrain 

 !it home. If they are ;roin«r to use the wheat j^rown near the local 

 mills, it must be wheat of one (puility. The reason why nniny of 

 the hnjre flour mills have been able to .sell their Hour in the Middle 

 AA'est is because they have been able to standardize their flour — one 

 sack is very much the same as the other. But where the local mills 

 use one variety of one ijuality to-dav and another variety of another 

 (|uality to-morrow one .sack is absolutely ditferent from the other — 

 {]\v bakers can not u.se it. 



In our State we have developed a new \ariety of wheat, known 

 as the MichakofT. by crossing a local variety of <;ood (juality with 

 a Russian variety, «xettinp a hard, red winter wheat which is as hard 

 a.s the Kanred wheat of Kan.sas. which is one of our standard jxood 

 winter wheats. 



Our millers to-day are wiHin«r to contract with our farmers, offer - 

 in«r 10 to 25 cents a bushel above the market price for a period of 

 five years foi- this variety of wheat. Thev would be able to save 



