The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-17

but the loans will have to be on
a very conservative basis.
The chairman said that the main
work of the Board so far has been
the promotion of cooperative mar
keting although what the Board
has done for grain and cotton has
had a great deal 10 do with stabili-
cation.
In answer to Senator Brookhart,
who said it was impossible to pro-
duce too great a crop in the long
run, Mr.. Legge asked, elbow &C
count for the 300,000,00O bushels
world surplus for wheat on July 8
last?"
Mr.. Legge said that he had OBJ
served no opposition on the part
of cotton men to cooperative or
ganization for that commodity as
being carried out by the Board.
He said there are differences of
opinion as to the form of such or
ganization should take.
The Board, Mr.. Legge said,
probably will be able to issue a
statement in the future discourage
ing an increased planting of Spring
wheat. He recalled that Winter
wheat, which comprises about two
thirds of our total wheat produc-
ton, is already planted and grow
ing.
Senator Brookhart called atten-
ton to a statement by Mr.. Legge
in The United States Daily under
date of Dec. % 1929, in which the
/ Farm Board chairman suggested a
? 20 per cent reduction in acreage,
and to a statement by James
Stone. vice chairman of the Farm
Board made in an address, Jan.
to the effect that the farmer, if
he reduced his acreage 20 per cent
would get larger return than fol
larger acreage.
r Control of Surplus Sought.
The Farm Board is defending q
D policy of crop reduction, Senator
S Brookhart said. 1t is possible that
{ the Board got some suggestion Of
: this out of the law creating III;
Board, which provides for "aidine
in preventing and controlling sur
e pluses in agricultural commodi
i ties" said the Senator. However
: this part of the law is qualified BY
i the clause, through orderly pro
!, duction and distribution" he said.
: The Iowa Senator maintained
: that orderly production does no
IL call for reduction, that it mean
n regulation so that "each part o
the country produces that par
which it is fitted to produce"
I'VE are spending in the De
partment of Agriculture abou
100000 for increasing produc
l. tion and for making agricultur
It more efficient in production" con
tlnued Senator Brookhart. "Tha
e policy is being followed not onl
in the Department of Agricultur
Il but also in the agricultural col
n leges of the country. Now, tn
H. Farm Board advises to reduce pro
L duction."
Mr.. Legge by this scheme O
destroying 20 per cent of the Gro
or killing off 20 per cent of tn
crop or killing off 20 per cent G
the farmers-I don't know whic
method he is going 10 succee
wlth-will cost the consumer g
n cents a bushel more than if til
surplus were sold in foreign mai
= kets, declared Mr.. Brookhart.
Senator Norbeck (Rep.) of Sout
S Dakota, interposed that Europ
< needed the wheat and "there woul
g almost be famine without it." a
IS opinion in which Senator Brood
lie hart concurred. Admonitions {
la the Farm Board to the farmer /
to keep out of the milling bushes
" were also criticized by Mr.. Brood
m hart.
n "That part of the Farm Board
O. business is out of line with Ii
he purposes for which the Board ws
he created" he asserted. "They tie
the farmer to keep out of coope
s. atlon except in the most restricte
III manner.
l. If these are their policies. the
ne are founded on inadequate know
es ledge or else the Farm Board
r anothr crowd of decoy ducks i
m to destroy cooperation.
d The Senator said he would wit
Z. mold final judgment on the Boar