Cotton-Holiday

[2][3] In a telegram to the governors of fourteen cotton-producing states, the Federal Farm Board (FFB) chairman recommended that farmers be forced to plow over every third row of cotton, destroying some 4 million bales of the 1931 crop.

[7] To protect domestic prices, Long further proposed that the holiday be imposed internationally, in which some nations, such as Egypt, expressed interest.

[11] Conservative Texan governor Ross S. Sterling, whose state was the largest producer of cotton, condemned the law as radical.

[3] Mississippi and Arkansas passed similar legislation except with escape clauses which set dates for the regulations to expire.

[15] Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, one of Long's most adamant opponents, said regarding the Cotton-Holiday, "Contrary... to popular supposition, neither Secretary Wallace of the Agriculture Department, nor the President of the United States should be credited with the original idea of 'scarcity of production' as a cure for the depression.