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tion of wild-life conservation in connection with the construction of public works or improvement projects.

The measure would establish a declaration of policy and provide for the coordination of activities of agencies of the Federal Government, with regard to the conservation of wild life, thereby placing a value upon these resources which has not heretofore existed. Notwithstanding several branches of the Federal Government are directly or indirectly concerned with the administration of wildlife resources in various forms, there has been lacking that coordination of effort and recognition throughout the entire service which would give to this activity the status to which it should be generally accorded.

The definition of policy and coordination of effort which this bill, if enacted into law, would bring about would result in untold benefits in the various fields of wild-life conservation. This department regards the bill as a conservation measure of the highest order and recommends its enactment.

Sincerely yours,

ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary.

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3d Session

No. 2842

TO INCLUDE DIP OR CRUDE GUM IN AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES

FEBRUARY 21, 1931.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

Mr. HAUGEN, from the Committee on Agriculture, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 2354]

The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2354) to amend the agricultural marketing act so as to include dip or crude gum, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass with the following amendments: Line 7, strike out the comma after the word "gum" Line 7, insert the word "gum" after the word "and"

The bill as amended reads as follows:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 15 of the agricultural marketing act is amended by adding at the end thereof a new subdivision to read as follows:

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(g) As used in this act, the term ‘agricultural commodity' includes gum spirits of turpentine, and gum rosin as processed by the original producer in addition to other agricultural commodities.

This bill determines that the sap of a living pine tree in the form of "gum" spirits of turpentine and "gum" rosin as processed by the original producer is an agricultural commodity.

This determination is made at the request of the Federal Farm Board which has asked for legislative determination as to its status as an agricultural product. Dr. A. F. Woods, director of scientific work, in the office of the Secretary of Agriculture, stated in a hearing before the committee that the department favored the bill.

In compliance with paragraph 2a of Rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, section 15 of the agricultural marketing act is shown in roman and the new matter added printed in italics, as follows:

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

SEC. 15. (a) As used in this act, the term "cooperative association" means any association qualified under the act entitled "An act to authorize association of producers of agricultural products," approved February 18, 1922. When

ever in the judgment of the board the producers of any agricultural commodity are not organized into cooperative associations so extensively as to render such cooperative associations representative of the commodity, then the privileges, assistance, and authority available under this act to cooperative associations shall also be available to other associations and corporations producer-owned and producer-controlled and organized for and actually engaged in the marketing of the agricultural commodity. No such association or corporation shall be held to be producer-owned and producer-controlled unless owned and controlled by cooperative associations as above defined and/or by individuals engaged as original producers of the agricultural commodity.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any member, officer, or employee of the board to speculate, directly or indirectly, in any agricultural commodity or product thereof, or in contracts relating thereto, or in the stock or membership interests of any association or corporation engaged in handling, processing, or disposing of any such commodity or product. Any person violating this subdivision shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

(c) It shall be unlawful (1) for any cooperative association, stabilization corporation, clearing house association, or commodity committee, or (2) for any director, officer, employee, or member or person acting on behalf of any such association, corporation, or committee, to which or to whom information has been imparted in confidence by the board, to disclose such information in violation of any regulation of the board. Any such association, corporation, or committee, or director, officer, employee, or member thereof, violating this subdivision, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(d) That the inclusion in any governmental report, bulletin, or other such publication hereafter issued or published of any prediction with respect to cotton prices is hereby prohibited. Any officer or employee of the United States who authorizes or is responsible for the inclusion in any such report, bulletin, or other publication of any such prediction, or who knowingly causes the issuance or publication of any such report, bulletin, or other publication containing any such prediction, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than $500 or more than $5,000, or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both: Provided, That this subdivision shall not apply to the members of the board when engaged in the performance of their duties herein provided.

(e) If any provision of this act is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person, circumstance, commodity, or class of transactions with respect to any commodity is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the act and the applicability of such provision to other persons, circumstances, commodities, and classes of transactions shall not be affected thereby. (f) This act may be cited as the "agricultural marketing act."

(g) As used in this act, the term agricultural commodity includes gum spirits of turpentine and gum rosin, as processed by the original producer, in addition to other agricultural commodities."

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SURVEY OF THE LOSS SUSTAINED IN THE MEDITER RANEAN FRUIT-FLY ERADICATION CAMPAIGN

FEBRUARY 21, 1931.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. HAUGEN, from the Committee on Agriculture, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 14046]

The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 14046) providing for a survey of the loss sustained by Florida farmers and fruit growers in the Mediterranean fruit-fly eradication campaign, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass in amended form as follows:

H. R. 14046, Seventy-first Congress. third session]

A BILL Providing for a survey of the loss sustained by Florida farmers and fruit gowers in the Mediter ranean fruit-fly eradication campaign

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to make a complete survey of all loss sustained by the farmers and fruit growers of the State of Florida by reason of the destruction of their uninfested fruits and vegetables and trees by the Federal Government in the Mediterranean fruit-fly eradication campaign.

SEC. 2. To carry out the purpose of this act the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $50,000 of any unobligated balance of the appropriation of $1,740,000 for the control, prevention of spread, and eradication of the Mediterranean fruit fly contained in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1931, and such amount shall remain available for the purposes of carrying out this act until June 30, 1982.

The bill was amended to authorize an appropriation not to exceed $50,000 as suggested in a letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, as follows:

Hon. G. N. HAUGEN,

House of Representatives.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
Washington, D. C., February 7, 1981.

DEAR MR. HAUGEN: I have for acknowledgment your letter of January 14, with inclosed copy of H. R. 14046, a bill providing for a survey of the losses sustained by Florida farmers and fruit growers in the Mediterranean fruit-fly eradication campaign, on which you ask a report.

I approve the bill in so far as it authorizes and directs me to make a complete survey of losses sustained by the farmers and fruit growers in the State of Florida by reason of the destruction of their uninfested fruits and vegetables and trees in the Mediterranean fruit-fly eradication campaign. The Department, however, would be without any available funds to make such a survey, and it will therefore be necessary to authorize an appropriation for that purpose. I have not had sufficient time to make a detailed estimate of the cost, but from the available information before me, I estimate that such a survey can not properly be accomplished under $50,000. I therefore have to suggest that such an amount be authorized.

Since any products destroyed were destroyed under authority of the laws of the State of Florida, the bill should not place the responsibility for such destruction upon the Federal Government. It is therefore suggested that the bill be amended somewhat along the following lines, in order to accomplish the purposes desired: "That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to make a survey to determine the losses sustained by farmers and fruit growers in the State of Florida by reason of the destruction of any uninfested fruits and vegetables in connection with the effort to eradicate Mediterranean fruit fly.

"SEC. 2. To carry out the purpose of this act the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $50,000 of any unobligated balance of the appropriation of $1,740,000 for the control, prevention of spread, and eradication of the Mediterranean fruit fly contained in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1931, and such amount shall remain available for the purposes of carrying out this act until June 30, 1932."

Sincerely,

ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary.

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