Evening star., 1933-08-18
QUICK ACTION GIVEN
DA|RYMEN'S GROUP
VIII Get $50, 900, 900 if They
Work Out Program to
Limit Production.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Farm Adjustment Administration
Is speeding up to keep pace with its in
dustrial companion piece, the Natlona
Recovery Administration.
In both organizations lately, there ha!
been concern about the fact that the
Recovery Administration apparently wa!
moving SO fast that it promised to leave
behind the agency set up to restore
farm purchasing power.
A quick answer to the demand BY
dairymen organizations for help showed
Secretary of Agriculture wallace Is
keenly aware OF the situation.
The dairymen lambasted the Farm
Administration for what they described
as undue delay and said something hao
to be done.
In their formal resolution they die
not mention the Recovery Administra-
tion. but In conferences with farm Of
fcials they bluntly said N. R. AS pro-
gram was increasing their costs ano
that meanwhile the price for butter hac
descended as if it had creased its owr
chute.
Might Have S3O,O0O,0O0.
Secretary Wallace told dairymen's
SpOhColIlCAI tilSS hlSAAe nav VSNfooS'SoN
If they would promise to work out a
program to limit the output of dairy
products They promised.
The Farm Administration matched
Hugh S. Johnson's celebrity in working
out its emergency cotton program and
there has been little complaint as tC
the speed of its wheat campaign.
Meanwhile, poultry raisers. sugar
growers, producers of many varieties OF
fruit and vegetables, rice and tobacco
farmers, and many organizations mar
keting farm products have cried for aio
in the face of mounting costs and lag
gard prices.
The result may be several short cuts
by the Farm Administration.
Another condition with respect to the
promised $4,000, 900 loan was that the
dairy industry raise the money to repay
the Government agency which furnishes
the money The dairymen themselves
proposed to do this through l-cent-a
pound tax on every pound of butterfat
produced.
Collection Details Lacking.
Neither the Farm Administration nor
representatives of the dairy organiza-
tions furnished any details on the col
lection of the cent-a-pound tax.
It was agreed it would have to be
raised either by a processing tax or a
marketing agreement which necessarily
would include virtually all the dairy
industry Arrangements are to be
worked out at other conferences be-
ginning Monday.
After recounting the fall in the price
of butter from 26 to 10 cents pound
the dairymen. claiming to represent
some so organizations, said in their
resolution the present state of affairs
was 'intolerable" and that they had
found a strange reluctance" on the
part of the Farm Administration to take
any action.
The demand for an immediate move
to relieve their plight was accompanied
by strongly worded request for tariff
which compete with dairy products and
also for an embargo against the i'm
portation of all dairy products.
Would Consider Curtailment.
If necessary, the dairymen said, they
would consider curtailment of the entire
milk supply and would even go SO far
as to consider killing COWS if such a
program were placed on a voluntary
basis.
Farm officials said they expected the
$3000O,0 900 to come from the Recon
struction Finance Corporation after the
dairymen formed a corporation which
would apply for funds. Meanwhile II
was indicated the Land o Lakes Cream
cries, Inc. a Minnesota cooperative
dairying organization, was attempting
to get funds to begin buying some OF
the butter and cheese Immediately.