The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-03-20
100000 FOR AGRICULTURE
TO AID IN THE
MARKETING OF CROPS.
rhe Appropriation of 100000 Is Car
ried in House-PureIy a Texas
Fiqht-Great Good Expected.

Washington.-The house saturday
adopted the provision in the $l9,OOO,;
600 agricultural appropriation Dill au-
thorizing the expenditure OF $ZO0,OOO
for the work of the division of mar
kets. 1t was peculiarly a Texas flght,
both in committee and on the floor
of the house, Representative Young
being the champion Of the provision
and Representative Summers seeking
to enlarge the scope of the provision
and to increase the appropriation 10
S1,0O0,000 Through Representative
Young's effort the committee agreed
to recommend 100000 for this work.
REPRESENTATIVE Hatton w Summers
thought that the provision should be
enlarged in scope so as to direct the
department of agriculture to proceed
with the work of bringing the farmers
in touch with market conditions TO
the fullest extent at once and there
fore he offered an amendment to IN
crease the appropriation to $lOO0,OOO.
A point of order was made against the
Summers amendment on the ground
that it was new legislation and the
point of order was sustained.
81 think the committee on agricul-
ture has rendered great service"
said Mr. Summers, "in providing for
the department of markets, but when
it provides merely for the accumula-
ton and dissemination Of information
it does not go far enough. The waste
resulting from the present methods
of marketing can not be eliminated by
accommodating and disseminating lnfor-
nation merely, there is need to help
to construct the marketing machinery,
which would make possible the prac-
tical use Of the information gathered" y
Representative Young made strong
speech in support of the market di-
vision provision, which embodies the
salient features of a bill which he in
troduced earlier in the session on this
subject. He drew the fire of two re-
publican congressman, Madden of Hi
hois and Stevenson of Minnesota, who
attempted to show that if through
the marketing division the farmer
should get more for his products it
would tend to increase the cost of
living.
mo-" replied Mr.. Young, because
the middleman now gets most of the
difference between what the consumer
pays and what tie farmer receives.
This legislation would stop the crimi-
nal waste between the producer and
the ultimate consumer with the re-
suit that the farmer would get better
prices and at the same time the cost
Of living would be reduced"
Drawing on Texas and the South for
illustrations, he said: Take it in our
section of the country, where cotton
is the chief product of the South, a
crop that in value amounts to more
than one billion dollars annually, that
great crop that takes from one end
of the year to the other to mature and
| harvest, and it is absolutely forced
on the market in a period Of ninety
days. In 1910, when our cotton crop
aggregated 100000 bales, the world
said that was not enough to supply
the demand. The very next year we
produced 100000 bales and those
100000 bales brought S125,0OO,OOO
less than the 10000, 0OO-bale crop
"This system of marketing as to the
cotton product of the South has
caused our people, instead of growing
rich on this great crop that blesses
the world, to be tied down, and the
producers are not prospecting as they
should"