Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-03-21
100000 FOR AGRICULTURE
GOVERNMENT TO AID IN THE
MARKETING or CROPS.
The Appropriation Of 100000 is Car
ried in House-Purely Texas
Fight-Gredt Good Expected.

Washington house Saturday
adopted the provision in the $4,000,
ooo agricultural appropriation bill au
thUrizing the expenditure of 100000
for the work of the division Of mar
kets. 1t was peculiarly a Texas fight
both in committee and on the floor
of the house. Representative Young
being the champion of the provision
and Representative. Summers seeking
and to increase the appropriation to
100000 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 i'm 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 100000.
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.
Il think the committee on agricul-
tUre has rendered a great service. %
said Mr. Summers, lin providing for
the department of markets, but when
it provides merely for the accumula-
tiOn 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 infOr-
nation merely, there is need to help
to construct the marketing machinery,
which would make possible the praC-
teal use of the information gathered"
Representative Young made a strong
speech in support of the market di-
vision provision, which embodies the
salient features of bill which he in
troduCed earlier in the session on this
subject. He drew the fire of two re-
publican congressman, Madden of Hi
nois 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.
No" repfe1 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 i'm 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 1925. 900 900
less than the 10000 OOO-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"