The changing role of surplus stocks -- Government and surplus stocks -- The problem of conserving surplus -- A plan for conserving surplus -- The reservoir system and the individual commodities -- The question of price stability -- The reservoir system and the general business cycle -- Ultimate uses of the stored commodity units -- The cost of the reservoir plan -- The currency of the United States -- The status of gold and silver -- Commodity-backed versus other currency -- The reservoir plan and credit control -- Farm problems and remedies -- The 1937 farm legislation - the ever-normal granary -- The reservoir plan versus crop control as a method of farm relief -- International aspects of the plan -- Precedents and related proposals -- The reservoir plan and the democratic tradition

1. Agriculture and state -- United States
2. Supply and demand
3. Consumption (Economics)
4. United States -- Economic policy