COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

CHARLES L. McNARY, Oiegon, Chairman GEORGE W.NORRIS, Nebraska.

ELLISON D. SMITH, South Carolina. ARTHUR CAPPER, Kansas.

JOHN B. KENDRICK, Wyoming. PETER NORBECK, South Dakota.

BURTON K. WHEELER, Montana. LYNN J. FRAZIER, North Dakota.

ELMER THOMAS, Oklahoma. JOHN THOMAS, Idaho.

GEORGE MCGILL, Kansas. H. D. HATFIELD, West Virginia.

JOHN H. BANKHEAD, Alabama. JOHN G. TOWNSEND, JR., Delaware.

W.J. BULOW, South Dakota. FREDERIC C. WALCOTT, Connecticut. HATTIE W. CARAWAY, Arkansas.

HENRIK SHIPSTEAD, Minnesota

H. K. KIEFER, Clerk

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Statement of

Brand, Charles J., executive secretary and treasurer National Fer

tilizer Association.--
Fies, Milton H., vice president DeBardeleben Coal Corporation,

Birmingham, Ala...
Fitts, William J., Commissioner of Agriculture, State of Tennessee
Howe, H. E., American Engineering Council, Washington, D. C.---
McFarland, W.F. , Chamber of Commerce of Florence, Ala., and

Sheffield, Ala.-----
Porter, J. F., president of the Tennessee Farm Bureau, member of

the Muscle Shoals Joint Commission from TennesseeReynolds, Mercer, Chattanooga, Tenn.--

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