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Mr. Besley. Yes. sir; they are, with the exception of milled rice 

 and with an additional reservation on the grain sorghums. In the 

 markets where they handle grain sorghums extensively they a;'e 

 equipped, but in certain other markets they would not be. 



Mr. Andek.sox. Do the standards which have not been promul- 

 gated require specialized equipment? 



Mr. Besley. Only to a very minor extent. For example, the sor- 

 ghums would have to have a special set of sieves of certain sizes, but 

 that is practically (he only additional equipment. 



Mr. Tenxy. We have a number of urgent letters from foreign gov- 

 ernments for grades, particularly on rye. I have mislaid those letters, 

 altliDUgh I have them with me. But one is from the German Gov- 

 ernment to the embassy here and one from a large importer in France, 

 particularly urging that grades be established on rye, so that the 

 importations can be made on the same basis as these other grains. 

 They claim that the present methods are unsatisfactory and that 

 they are not geting uniform deliveries. 



FOR ADMINISTRATION OF UNITED STATES WAREHOUSE ACT. 



Mr. Anderson. We will next take up the item for the administra- 

 tion of the United States warehouse act. 



Mr. YoiiE. This estimate, which is for administering the United 

 States warehouse act, carries an increase over last year of S16,400. 

 We shall quite likely use this additional money to place an additional 

 man in our Raleigh office, from which office we cover Virginia and 

 the Carolinas; one additional warehouse inspector to work from the 

 Atlanta office, which serves Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, 

 and Tennessee; and an additional inspector in the gi'ain territory 

 extending from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains. Then it is 

 contemplated to open an office at Memphis, which will mean placing 

 one additional inspector and taking from the office or inspection force 

 of the Dallas and Atlanta offices certain men and adding them to the 

 Memphis force. It also provides for adding four clerks, two of whom 

 will (juite likelv come to the Washington office, due to the increased 

 amount of work, which I will show you before I finish; and one to the 

 Denver office, which is to be opened. W"e now have a man working 

 from that city but have not established any office headqiuirters. 

 One clerk will be needed in the Memphis odice, which will be opened 

 probably after the 1st of July. 



It is hiirdly necessary for me to tell this committee what the pur- 

 pose is of the warehouse act. It was passed six years ago. Prima- 

 rily its purpose, in a wt)rd, is to aid in orderly marketing and in pro- 

 <lucing or bringing forth an instrument which can be used for credit 

 purposes when the pi'oducts arc in storage. My understanding of the 

 history of this act is that in the first few years after its passage this 

 committee, and (-ongress in General, was (luite discourageil with 

 what was being done under it; discouraged witn respect to the manner 

 in which tiie fanners themselves, who were su|)posed to be using it 

 and f(»r whom it was passed primarily, were availing themselves of it, 

 and discouraged also with respect to the manner in which the ware- 

 housemen w«>re responding to it. 



To (h'velop a credit instrument properly and mak(> it of the greatest 

 use— and in this instance it hnj)pens to be the \varelu>usi> receipt it 



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