Agriculture Appropriation Bill, 1920; Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-Sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3157 (Paperback)

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. 1919 Excerpt: ...moment. Mr. Glasgow. You are referring to the new crop? Mr. Spreckels. The present crop. Mr. Glasgow. Are you referring to the new crop of sugar or to the crop which is known as the 1919 crop? Mr. Spreckels. No: I am referring to the sugar of 1919; not 1919-20: in other words, they have started to produce in August and are still producing, and will finish that crop befcre the 1st of Janu ary, 1920. Therefore it is purely the 1919 crop. Mr. Glasgow. The regulation of the Food Administration over the beet Ciod and the Louisiana cane crojj is svoken of in the contract as the 1018-19 crop. 1 understand your estimate of tonnage to cover not only that 1918-19 crop statement in that contract, but the crop which would be on a like period for 1919-20. lp that correct? Mr. Spreckels. I think the Food Administration has controlled in a way by refusing permission to hoard those sugars; therefore they have control. Mr. Glasgow7. Df course I think the committee understands that part we refer to. I do not think it necessary to go further w-ith that question. I understand you, in your estimate of 1,000,000 tons, to refer not only to the crop covered by the contract with the Louisiana and beet producers, designated in that contract as the 1918-19 crop, but also to the crop or a part of it that follows that crop. Is that correct? Mr. Spreckels. I must read the contract to ascertain what it says. It may have been referred to in the contract, but it is all produced in 1918, the crop of 1918-19. There is no such thing as 1918-19 crop of beet sugar; there is no such thing in Louisiana. Mr. Glasgow. Oh, yes, there is. Mr. Spreckels. There is very little left over. Mr. Glasgow. The Department of Agriculture speaks of it as the 1918-19 crop; the contract which we had with the beet ...