Box 2: Agriculture (1953) -- Agriculture (1955).
F 1: Agriculture, Cattle, Correspondence (July - Dec. 1953).
Correspondence re: price supports and S. 798; drought relief; resolution from the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association; resolution from the National Farmers Union; copy of letter from Mike Monroney to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Correspondents include: Ezra Taft Benson.
F 2: Agriculture, Commodity Credit Corporation (1953).
Copy of S. 115: To amend Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1949; copy of S. 2102: To increase allowances for carryover and acreage allotments for corn and wheat and to establish a special contingency reserve; copy of S. 2099: To amend wheat marketing quota provisions of Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938; correspondence with Acme Flour Mills concerning problem of obtaining wheat for milling.
F 3: Agriculture, Drought (1953).
Copies of S. 2267 and S. 2233: To provide for additional emergency assistance to farmers and stockmen; information about federal disaster relief from the Department of Agriculture; press release from Dwight D. Eisenhower.
F 4: Agriculture, Drought, Oklahoma and Region (1953).
Hay allocation; designation of state as disaster area. Correspondents include: Department of Agriculture; Production and Marketing Administration; Raymond Gary.
F 5: Agriculture, Drought, Oklahoma Counties (1953).
Correspondence re: placing various counties under drought relief.
F 6: Agriculture, Rural Electrification Administration (1953-1954).
Correspondence re: Robert S. Kerr's speech (published in the Congressional Record) about the REA and SPA Continuing Fund Conference Report, Interior Appropriations Bill. Correspondents include: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
F 7: Agriculture (1954).
Correspondence re: H.R. 8985: seed control; correspondence re: H.R. 8300: soil and water conservation; correspondence re: S. 2404: meat packers bonding; correspondence re: S. 3697 and H.R. 9819: fruit fly infestation; correspondence re: S. 2548: grazing; correspondence re: S. 2549 and H.R. 6788: upstream flood control; grain storage; correspondence re: H.R. 8224: federal excise and sales taxes; farm income information, clippings, and an article from U.S. News and World Report of October 29; correspondence re: S. 1461: Time Lag Bill; Social Security Act voluntary coverage for farmers; Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation program members; correspondence re: S. 3092; irrigation; Oklahoma State Department of Agriculture report on fertilizers. Correspondents include: Associated Motor Carriers of Oklahoma; Oklahoma Railways Legislative Committee; American Farm Bureau Federation; Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture; George Meany of the American Federation of Labor.
F 8: Agriculture, Acreage Allotments (1954).
Cotton; S. 2643: To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938; H.R. 6665: To amend certain provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938; clippings; Department of Agriculture documents; Kerr pres release. Correspondents include: United States Commodity Stabilization Service; United States Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office; National Farmers Union.
F 9: Agriculture, Appropriations (1954).
H.R. 8779: Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955; Extension Service funds; appropriations for Soil Conservation Service.
F 10: Agriculture, Castor Bean (1954).
Typescript on castor bean production in Caddo County. Correspondents include: United States Emergency Procurement Service; United States Commodity Stabilization Service; Department of Agriculture; Ross Rizley; Office of Defense Mobilization.
F 11: Agriculture, Cattle (1954).
Price supports; resolution and correspondence from the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association; statement by the Oklahoma Farmers Union; National Farmers Union; Department of Agriculture; Agricultural Marketing Service; statement by the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Correspondents include: Ezra Taft Benson; Earl L. Batz.
F 12: Agriculture, Commodity Credit Corporation (1954-1955).
H.R. 6878, S. 624, and H.R. 1831: To amend Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to relieve innocent purchases of fungible goods; memo from National Grain Trade Council. Correspondents include: Carl Albert; Allen J. Ellender.
F 13: Agriculture, Drought, Oklahoma (Mar. - July 1954).
Multiple Oklahoma counties and the state of Oklahoma in general; resolutions from the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association. Correspondents include: Farmers Home Administration; Commodity Stabilization Service; director of cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics for the state of Oklahoma; Johnston Murray; Oklahoma Farm Bureau; B. D. Eddie; Raymond Gary.
F 14: Agriculture, Drought, Oklahoma (Aug. - Dec. 1954).
Multiple Oklahoma counties and the state of Oklahoma in general; press release from president declaring Oklahoma a disaster area; "Drought Relief and Area Development Recommendations," a report compiled by Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board and U.S. Department of Commerce. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Farmers Union; Oklahoma Farm Bureau; Department of Agriculture; Ezra Taft Benson.
F 15: Agriculture, Drought, Oklahoma, Atoka County-Logan County (1954).
Correspondence.
F 16: Agriculture, Drought, Oklahoma, McIntosh County-Rogers County (1954).
Correspondence.
F 17: Agriculture, Farm Bill (1954).
H.R. 9680: To provide for continued price support for agricultural products; materials from Congressional Record; graphs from Agricultural Marketing Service. Correspondents include: American Farm Bureau Federation; Oklahoma Farm Bureau.
F 18: Agriculture, Price Supports (1954).
Correspondence calling for 90 percent parity on all farm products; Wool Subsidy Bill; correspondence re: S. 2962: price supports for milk and butterfat. Correspondents include: Edward J. Thye; National Milk Producers Federation; Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture; Oklahoma Farm Bureau.
F 19: Agriculture (Jan. - June 1955).
National Grange legislative programs; beekeeping; taxation of cooperatives; land utilization projects; humane slaughtering; lard marketing; storm relief; irrigation; agricultural surpluses for federal and state institutions; copy of H.R. 2686: To provide an adequate, balanced, and orderly flow of milk and dairy products; copy of S. 634: Farm Home Water Products Act; copy of S. 626: Farm Cost of Production Study Act. Correspondents include: Joe Harp of Oklahoma State Reformatory; Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association.
F 20: Agriculture (July - Dec. 1955).
Agricultural surplus for federal and state institutions; lard marketing; beekeeping; irrigation; agricultural exemptions on gasoline not used on highways; migrant laborers; preservation of family-sized farms; price supports; crop insurance; resealing of wheat loans. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Farm Bureau; Oklahoma Emergency Relief Board.
F 21: Agriculture, Acreage Allotments (1955).
Information on cotton, peanuts, rice, and wheat; copies of numerous bills. Correspondents include: Commodity Credit Corporation; Oklahoma Cotton Ginners Association; Department of Agriculture; Carl Albert; Allen J. Ellender.
F 22: Agriculture, Castor Bean (1955).
F 23: Agriculture, Cotton (1955).
Copy of S. 2702: To encourage sale of cotton for export. Correspondents include: Victor Wickersham; National Cotton Ginners Association.
F 24: Agriculture, Drought (1955).
Copy of S. 629: To authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out drought management; S. 1852: To amend Federal Crop Insurance Act. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association; Department of Agriculture; Oklahoma Cotton Ginners Association.
F 25: Agriculture, Farm Credit Administration (1955).
Copy of S. 1286: Farm Credit Act of 1955; correspondence concerning production credit corporations and production credit associations.
F 26: Agriculture, Farm Program (Jan. - June 1955).
Typescript: "The Ills of Agriculture"; National Farmers Union Washington Newsletter; "Benson vs. the Farmer"; statement of National Farmers Union at hearings on appropriations for Department of Agriculture; Public Affairs Institute Column: "The Farmers' Plight Worsens"; copy of S.J. Res. 20: To state explicitly the long-standing national policy to preserve and strengthen the family farm; references to Ezra Taft Benson. Correspondents include: John H. Mayhew.
F 27: Agriculture, Farm Program (July - Dec. 1955).
References to Ezra Taft Benson; copies of National Farmers Union Washington Newsletter; speech materials on farm program issued by Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; statement of James G. Patton, president of National Farmers Union, regarding needed improvements in federal farm price and income policies. There is a letter from a group of senators to Ezra Taft Benson.
F 28: Agriculture, Farmers Home Administration (1955).
S. 2106: To amend Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act; correspondence concerning trying to obtain loans. Correspondents include: L. E. Rader of Oklahoma Department of Public Welfare; Gordon Allott; Oklahoma Farmers Union; national and state offices of FHA.
F 29: Agriculture, Field Hearing (1955).
Information on a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing held in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Senators who accepted the invitation to appear included Andrew F. Schoeppel and Milton R. Young. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Farm Bureau; Oklahoma Cotton Ginners Association.
F 30: Agriculture, Grain Sorghum (1955).
Correspondents include: Walter Rogers.
F 31: Agriculture, Price Supports (1955).
Copies of S. 625, S. 798, and S. 964, all relating to price supports; typescript on parity; statement of National Farmers Union; report by the Library of Congress: "The Level of Price Supports." Correspondents include: Department of Agriculture.
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