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GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Corn acreage 'planted 1930-47, 1941 area identity — commercial area and noncom- 

 mercial area — Continued 



[Thousand acres] 



» Revised county figures not available. Based on preliminary county estimate. 



Mr. Pace. Are there any questions for the Secretary? I have one 

 question to propound to get it started. 



Mr. Secretary, you suggested the probable need of hmiting the 

 production of competing grains whenever marketing quotas are in 

 effect on corn. You suggested that could be done by placing the com- 

 peting graims under the acreage allotment controls while corn in the 

 commercial area was under marketing quotas. It is noted, of course, 

 that under the existing Agricultural Adjustment Act, as well as under 

 the Agricultural Act of 1948, the corn producers outside the commer- 

 cial area enjoy a price support program of only 75 percent of that 

 which is in effect in the commercial area. 



