Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-05
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Farm Bureau Federation to
HI Gather Ideas From the
Farmers Regarding
Legislation.
TO QUESTION MANY
Producers, Consumers, Job
!. hers, and Otherseto be .
Questioned.
TO QUESTION MANY

Questioned.
1 Washington, d. c., Sept. 2.--fOwa ag-
riculturists will soon be asked by the
federated farm bureaus to respond to
missionaries giving their ideas on the
whole question OF the distribution of
food products. The bureau is to CON
duet the nationwide referendum ut the
instance to the, joint commission of ag-
ricultural inquiry, which is seeking to
ascertain what form legislation should
take to relieve the farmers of the coun-
try. The thought is to get the protlnc-
ers. side; then the consumers angle.
and finally to have this information
form the basis of interrOgatiOns to the
retailers, the jObber and eventually the
manufacturer. 1t is believed by the
joint committee that this procedure
will result in the committee getting
much valuable information.
Discussing the plan to go direct to the
producers of the country for their side
of the complex question, Irving $. Paul.
secretary of the committee, today said:
One hundred times as much data is
being secured through research work in
the office as the oral hearings have
produced thus far. In respect to secur-
ing through extension research work.
the method of procedure Of the commits
sion differs from that which has been
followed by other similar bodies. New
eTtheless the hearings are considered
of extreme value, and the spirit OF
those who are asked to testify is char
acterized by the members of the COM
mission as most cOmmendable. Since
the hearings commenced OH July IA
bout ninety witnesses have been heard.
half of whom spoke for the agricul
tural interests.
Win First Round.
! There is no more active organization
in Washington than the men in the
headquarters which represent the yari-
Gus agricultural and dairy producers
Eof the country. The dairy interests
have just won the first round of their
fight TO enact bill prohibiting the
shipment in interstate commerce of
milk and vegetable oil compounds, Il
proposal that is being vigorously OPP
posed by manufacturers Of this product
on the ground that it will destroy their
business. Just prior to the recess OF
congress the house committee on agri-
culture fayorably reported the Weight
bill, which prohibits introduction of
these milk and vegetable oil compounds
and makes unlawful their manufacture
in the District of Columbia. the ter
ritOries and insular possessions. The
committee vote was IA to 4. Before con
sideration Of the measure by the COM
mittee. Representative VOight amended
his bill SO that instead of amending the
pure food and drugs act, it is an out
right prOhibitOry proposal. Another
amendment would prohibit interstate
traffic in products that have the
semblance of milk. These alterations
meet with the approval of the National
Milk Producers association. which. Is
enthusiastically supporting the bill. The
association hopes through the Voight
hill to eliminate the milk compounds
from Interstate commerce and in the
several states they are making at
ftempts to have state acts of the. same
nature enacted. rg,.
This is one of the subjects that the
members of the Iowa delegation while
at home during the recess of congress
;. will undoubtedly take mp with the
dairy and farm men of the Hawkeye
state Representative Dickinson, of the
Tenth Iowa district, who is chairman
of the agricultural board in the house,
when he left Washington for his home
intended to canvass his district to get
the viewpoint of constituents on the
subject. ~.
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