The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-01-31
STRIKE WHILE THE IRON Is Hor

. Ah1nG WILLIE If1G lfbON 1S HUI
The following special message to the
farmers of the Northwest was sent out
from Washington the first of the week
In an effort to get together in sup
port of some legislation that can be
put through congress that will bring
relief to the farmers, senators from
the west on the Agriculture commmit-
tee are holding frequent conferences
with the hope of getting together on
one of the bills now before the Agri-
culture committee that promises the
most relief to the wheat growers. The
senate committee on Agriculture is
holding hearings each morning, and in.
dividual wheat growers as well as rep
resentatiyes of the principal farmer
organizations are presenting their
pears now to be crystalizing around
the McNary agricultural export cor.
poration bill, the bill that seems to
have the support of the administra-
tion. Three other bills are pending be-
fore the committee, the Gooding wheat
stabalization bill, the Norris bill pro-
viding for. the purchase and sale of
farm products, and the Norbeck diver
sification bill.
Some of the wheat growers who
have been heard thus far have endors-
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recognizing wide demand for the ex-
port bill, they are now urging that
measure as being broader in scope,
and likely to have more general sup
port. G. p. Mix of Moscow, one Of
the big wheat growers of North Ida
no, recently was heard before the Ag-
riculture committee. He told how, on
his thousand acre farm, half of it in
wheat, he had kept close account of
costs, and found that exclusive of any
compensation for himself, without
probation of farm machinery and live
stock, it had cost him 70 cents to
grow bushel of wheat last season
His class of wheat was selling around
80 cents, which meant that he would
sustain heavy loss. Mr.. Mix dis
cussed agriculture generally in Idaho,
and told the committee the wheat
growers were practically unanimous in
their support of the Gooding bill. He
had attended many meetings held in
the wheat growing regions of Idaho
and Washington and those meetings
showed the people favored the Good |
ing plan However, there has since
arisen some objection to this bill espe-
cially among the millers and grain
buyers, and as it is now believed the |
administration favors the wheat ex-
port plan, as advocated by the secre
tary of agriculture, Mr.. Mix said his
people would accept that plan as the |
next best, and he, therefore, endorsed |
the McNary bill. Prof. Dale of Mos
COW spoke along similar lines, and re-
marked that sentiment was fast crys- |
talizing in favor of the export plan |
endorsed by the secretary of agricul /
ture, and he accordingly lent his EN-
dorsement to the McNa1y bill
There prevails among senators advo-
eating agriculture relief a general and
sincere desire to get early action, and
as sentiment in favor of the |
export bill is growing stronger each
day and as that plan seems to have
general approval, advocates of other
kinds of relief are subordinating their
personal preferences and getting be-
hind the one bill that gives most prom
ise Of early enactment, especially as