Agricultural Relief; Hearings Before, 66-3, December 17, 1920

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... AGKICULTUBAL BELIEF. Committee On Agriculture, , House Of Representatives, Washington, D. C., Friday, December 17,1920. The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m., Hon. Gilbert N. Haugen (chairman) presiding. Present: Members of the committee; also, Mr. F. J. Hagenbarth, of Salt Lake City, Utah, president of the National Wool Growers' Association and member of the executive committee of the National Live Stock Association; Mr. S. W. McClure, Nampa, Idaho, manager of the Columbia Basin Wool Warehouse Co. (cooperative); Mr. George M. Thurmond, Del Rio, Tex., secretary of the Texas Sheep & Goat Raisers' Association: Mr. Prager Miller, Eoswell, N. Mex., president of the New Mexico Wool Growers' Association; Prof. J. M. Wilson, McKinley, Wyo., president of the Wyoming Wool Growers' Association; and Prof. W. C. Coffey, Urbana, 111., animal husbandman, University of Illinois, and others. The Chairman. The committee has been called together to further consider meat-packer legislation pending before the committee, and also measures having for their object relief for agriculture industry during the present crisis. Pursuant to the action taken by the committee, we will now hear from Mr. F. J. Hagenbarth. STATEMENT OF MR. F. J. HAGENBARTH. Mr. Hagenbarth. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, the live-stock people, you might feel, are asking for preferential treatment here and, we think, we are before your committee. But we feel that if the Agricultural Committee can not be interested and is not interested in the live-stock situation, we do not know of any committee in Congress that would be. Now, we are in identically the same condition as every other industry in this country, as applied to the general commodity situation, of having low markets or demoralized markets and als...