Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-08-01
New Tariff Law and How
lit Will Affect Farmers Farm
Relief Board Law Explained

cy of congress to promote the effective
merchandising of agricultural commodi-
ties in interstate and foreign commerce,
so that the industry of agriculture will
be placed on a basis of economic equali-
ty with other industries, and to that
end TO protect, control, and stabilize
the current of interstate and foreign
commerce in the marketing Of agri-
cultural commodities and their food
products
"Q) BY minimizing speculation.
ca BY preventing inefficient and
wasteful methods of distribution.
"t3) BY encouraging the Organiza-
ton OF producers into effective aSso-
Citations or corporations under their own
control for greater unity Of effort in
marketing and by promoting the estab-
lishment and financing Of a farm mar
keting system of producer-owned and
producer-controlled cooperative associ-
ations and other agencies.
80 BY aiding in preventing and
controlling SURPRISES in any agricul-
tural commodity, through orderly pro-
duction and distribution, SO as to
maintain advantageous domestic mar
kets and prevent such SURPRISES from
causing undue and excessive fuctua-
tons or depressions in prices for the
commodity"
"There shall be considered as a surplus
for the purposes of this act any sea-
sonal or years total surplus, produced
in the United States and either local
or national in extent that is in excess
Of the requirements for the orderly
distribution of the agricultural COM
modify or is in excess of the domestic
requirements for such commodity. The
Federal Farm Board shall execute the
powers vested in it by this act only in
such tanner as will, in the judgment
of the board, aid to the fullest prac-
ticable extent in carrying out the policy
above declared.
"The law. in conformity with that
declaration of policy then proceeds to
create a Federal Farm Board consisting
Of eight members appointed by the
president, by and with the advice and
consent of the senate, and Of the Sec
rotary OF agriculture as an ex-officio
member. The president is directed to
give consideration in making these ap-
pointsnents to having the major agri-
cultural commodities produced in the
United States fairly represented. That
President Hoover has done this is gen.
orally " Sep:cd as q fact. The advice
u farm organizations and leaders has
bc~n ely sought and given. The
crea' Of such a board. 1t is we'll to
iso' an provided for In every other
w. lief ball previously presented in
r sS& 1t was the n thing ac-
s*ea AN fundamental and as being as
.sss&afy To agriculture as the board of
-sleysoss 10 any other great industry,
uf group OF industries as agriculture
r1ay be- properly considered.
The powers OF this board are broad
and far reaching. Besides the neces-
aary provisions as to maintaining Of
fees. making required expenditures,
etc, 1t shall make an annual report to
congress upon the administration Of the
act and any other matters relating to
the better e~ffectuatiOn Of the policy
declared in the law and, let me en-
phasize, including recommendations for
further legislation.
This latter is recognition that this
law Is the beginning and not the end
OF a constructive program.
1.-THE law further authorizes the board
to promote education in the principles
and practices Of cooperative market
ing Of agricultural commodities and
food products thereof; to encourage
the organization, improvement in meth
DDS, and development Of effective CO.
operative associations, to keep advised
from any aVallaDlc sources ana MAKE
reports as to crop prices, experiences,
prospects, supply, and demand, at home
and abroad; to investigate conditions
of overproduction Of agricultural COM
moditieS and advise as to the preven-
ton Of such OverprOduction; and to
make Investigations and reports upon
the following: Land utilization for
agricultural purposes; reduction of the
acreage Of improbable marginal lands
in cultivation; methods of expanding
markets at home and abroad for agri-
cultural commodities and food products
thereof; methods of developing by
products of and new uses for agricul-
tural commodities; and transportation
conditions and their effect upon the
marketing of agricultural commodities.
ITO make possible and effective the
succeeding steps in the work of this
board the next provision of the law
is an authorization for the appropria-
ton of $500, 000.00 to constitute a re-
volving fund to be administered by the
board as provided in the act. The first
designated use OF the fund has to do
with loans to cooperative associations
and the second with loans to stabiliza-