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President Talks to American Farmers AFBF Supports AAA Program And Demands Extension Of Many Features Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, addressed the fanners of America at the opening session of the 17th Annual Convention of the Ameri can Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago, on Monday, December 9th. The American Farm .Bureau's 17th Annual Convention continued through the 10th and nth of December with the organization considering all matters E. A. O'NmI, Praa. American Farm Bureau FtdtratMfl generally attecting the wdfait of agriculture ami went on record with resolutions out lining the Federa tion's program for 1936. In general, the or ganization strongly endorsed the Federal Administration's agri cultural program and urged further exten sion of many features on this program. M. L Wilson, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, . ibr Federal Agencies, F. W. Peck, Cooperative Bank Com missioner of Farm Credit Administra tion; Chester C. Davis, Administrator, Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion, were representatives of the Admin istration addressing the Farm Bureau Convention at its various sessions. The 17th Annual Convention of the Farm Bureau was preceded by a two day meeting of the Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau Federa tion. Farm Bureau Defends AAA Processing Tax Early in December, oral argument was heard by the United States Supreme Court in the famous Hoosac Mills case testing the constitutionality of the pro cessing tax feature of the AAA. A 11 6-page written brief was filed by the Hoosac Corporation attacking the process tax features of the act. "Taxation without representation," "insidious effort," congress has abdi cated," and "bureaucrats," were among the phrases denouncing the AAA, in the document filed by the company. The Corporation brief asserted the amendments were a "fraud, in essence, upon the powers declared to congress by. the people". The filing of this brief was followed by a "friend of the court" brief filed by the American Farm Bureau Federa tion defending the processing taxes and holding them comparable to protective tariffs for industry. Farm Bureau lawyers maintained that the taxes are intended to provide for the general welfare, and asserted that the determination of congress as to what constitutes the general welfare "is one for which courts will rarely, if ever, substitute their own judgment." Japanese Cotton Imports Alarm U. S. Planters Continued increases in shipments of cotton cloth to the United States by Japan is causing considerable apprehen sion among both cotton planters and do mestic textile interests. In October of 1935, Japan sent seven times as much ootton cloth into the U. S. as in the corresponding month in South Winning Bovine T. B. Fight * EXTENT OF BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS ? ^gN THE UNITED STATES NOVEMBER I. 1935 rA BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS Southeastern Hates generally rant klfh in the campaign for the eradication of bovine tuberculosis, according to recent reports of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture. The states! of North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, West Vir ginia, Tennessee and Kentucky are all loo per cent modified accredited area. Maryland is thirty-nine and one-tenth per cent accredited, and sixty-six and seven tenths of the area in Delaware is accredited. Accredited areas are practically free - from bovine tuberculosis (lets than one-half of one per cent as thourn by official tuberculin testing .J On August t, 1930. only three states in the United States had all their counties accredited. On May /, 1934, there v/ere thirteen. On November I, 1935, there were thirty-one states. In this area uuss included 2.700 counties, parts of four counties. District of Columbia, one hundred and five tou-ns in V err+ont, and one municipality in Puerto Rico. Trade Agreement Meets With Both Support and Opposition Throughout December, the Reciproc ity Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada . signed No vember 15, 193s. *? a subject of con siderable controversy among farm lead ers and others interested in agriculture. Immediately on the heels of the sign ing of the pact. National Grange dele gates at the 69th Annual Convention of that organization in Sacramento, Cali fornia, went on record opposing the treaty as "certain to prove injurious to the growers of many American farm products." Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Q?org? Pttfc Agriculture, in a prat statement felt that the agreement would benefit the "whole of agriculture." Citrus growers in Florida anticipated an increased Canadian market to result from the treaty and felt that it balanced Flor ida losses from the 1934- Ami this comparison was rough ly true for the first ten months of 193;. Early in 1935 quiet efforts were started in the Department of State to persuade Japanese exporters to volun tarily limit their shipments to this country. , During the first ten months of 1 935 the net gain in importations of cot ton doth from all countries was actually less than the increase in Japanese im ports. This indicates that the Japanese gains have been made at the expense of other foreign supplies. American cotton growers are particu larly concerned with this situation since government figures show that Japanese omsumptioti of American cotton fell off 100,000 hales last year. Japan is turn ing to India as a source of cotton. Total cotton consumption in Japan increased sharply last year, in spite of the large decrease in purchases of American cot on. H?nry A. Walla?#, Sac rata ry of Agriculture Cuban Trade Agreement in so far as it affected the Florida vegetable industry. (ieorp N. Peek, Special Advisor to President Rooievelt on foreign trade and president of two federal Export Import .Banks, resigned bis federal po sitions on December and. Peek was known to be in sharp dis agreement with the Secretary of State Hull's foreign trade policies and espe cially the Canadian trade pact. Under the agricultural concessions in the Canadian agreement, Canada re duces the duties applicable to the United States on a large number of fruits and vegetables, livestock products, poultry and eggs. Hie principal concessions made by the United States are in the form of duty reduction on cattle, cream and certified seed potatoes. In each of these cases, the duty reduction applied only to a special quantity of import*. Other Canadian agriculture product* upon which duties were reduced includ ed cheese, live and dressed poultry, horses, grass and other forage crop seeds, maple sugar .turnips, hay and cer tain fruits. In a release for publication, the United States Department of Agricul ture states "a large part of the decline in our agricultural exports to Canada from $50,000,000 to $15,000,000 in the past five years should be recovered in consequence of the Canadian trade Grange Outlines National Policy National Group Oppose Canada Trade Pact; Ask For AAA Amendments In Sacramento, California, in Novrm *r, the National Grange held its 69th \nnual Session. Thirty-five states were ^presented in its voting body which de iberated for nine days on the varied weds of rural people. Seventeen hundred members of the organization at Sacramento received he highest degree of the Grange. At the biennial election the organization mdorsed National Master Louis J. Taber for another two-year term fol lowing his progressive leadership for the past 12 years. Has 800,000 The Grange repre sents 8.000 subordi nate units with a dues paid membership of Hoo.ckx). Outstanding actions taken by the Grange in their annual session included demands for amendment and simp Louis J. Tabor, Muter, National Grange lification of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, better agricultural financing facil ities, restriction of holding companies, extension of rural electrification, reduc tion in rural unemployment, rigid econ omy in Government and a balanced budget, and the elimination of political influences from the administration of farm organizations. The Grangr went on record oppos ing reciprocal trade practices or favored national treaticji using industrial prod ucts to the disadvantage of agriculture and especially fcondemned the reciproc- ^ ity treaty with Canada. Oppo<n R???l?Uimnt The Grang? also opposed the Reset tlement Program except "when carefully considered andjguided by sound common sense." It ajso opposed reduction of present tariff rates on seed potatoes, hay and other fanji staples. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a member of tne Grange for a quarter century, sent { a personal message of greeting to thej Sacramento convention. Ask A A A Amendments In regard to the AAA, the Grange asked that the act be amended to in crease farm control and eliminate bu reaucratic methods. It also asked that a reward be given farmers for grow ing crops for which there is a shortage, and for development of new crops; crop insurance for thrifty farmers to the extent of a return equal to seed and labor investment; prevention of crop signers from growing crops of which there is a surplus. Permanent features of a definite ag ricultural program endorsed by the Grange looked to the development of cooperative marketing ; diversion of agri cultural products to industrial uses; a sound land use program with definite efforts to check soil erosion; reforesta tion, and the debenture method to open foreign markets. agreement. Secretary Wallace, commenting on the Canadian pact said in part "there are a few farm groups which will fear their being held by the new agreement, but actually in these cases the tariff re ductions are moderate, and in addition, there are quota restrictions of such a nature that imports from Canada can not affect the American price structure by more than i percent. This small effect in my judgment will, as a rule, be more than offset by the increased pay rolls of industries established along the northern border and in the northeastern states."
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