Farm Marketing Program: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Seventy-second Congress, First Session, Feb. 16,17,and 18, May 4,11, and 25, 1932, Partes1-4

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Página 34 - The per capita acreage of land in crops has declined since 1900 and is now below the point at which it was in 1880. These declines in acreage were offset up to about 1900 by an increase in the yield per acre of the nine principal crops, but since that time the yield per acre has shown no increase, and in consequence the per capita production of the principal crops, as charts 3 and 4 Indicate, has shown a tendency to decline almost steadily since 1900. The number of livestock per capita has also declined...
Página 80 - I think that is the only way we are going to be able to meet our freeway problem by not building freeways.
Página 140 - Every person who, in violation of the regulations prescribed by the board, fails to collect or account for any equalization fee shall be liable for its amount and to a penalty equal to one-half its amount. Such amount and penalty may be recovered together in a civil suit brought by the board in the name of the United States.
Página 138 - There shall be considered as a surplus for the purposes of this Act any seasonal or year's 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 commodity or is in excess of the domestic requirements for such commodity.
Página 139 - In the case of any agreement in respect of the removal or disposal of the surplus of a basic agricultural commodity, the agreement shall provide both for the payment from the stabilization fund for the commodity of the amount of losses, costs, and charges, arising out of the purchase, storage, or sale or other disposition of the commodity or out of contracts therefor, and for the payment into the stabilization fund for the commodity of profits (after deducting all costs and charges provided for in...
Página 141 - Any person who shall make any false statement for the purpose of fraudulently procuring, or shall attempt in any manner fraudulently to procure, the issuance or acceptance of any export debenture, whether for the benefit of such person or of any other person, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Página 10 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for chlorides, sulphates...
Página 11 - If any provision of this Act is declared unconstitutional or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provisions to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Página 139 - ... (g) If the board is of the opinion that there are two or more cooperative associations capable of carrying out any such...
Página 140 - ... (1) To file returns under oath and to report, in respect of his transportation, processing, or acquisition of such commodity, the amount of equalization fees payable thereon and such other facts as may be necessary for their payment or collection. (2) To collect the equalization fee as directed by the board, and to account therefor.

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