48 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Secretary Brannan. Yes. 



Mr. Pace. Will the gentleman yield? 



Mr. Hope. Yes. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Secretary, under the figures you gave on page 7 

 regarding a carry-over of 700,000,000 bushels, that does not require 

 putting into effect the formula under the marketing quota law with 

 regard to corn? 



Secretary Brannan. It does not, according to both our lawyers 

 and our technical people. 



I woidd like to refer you, if I might, to the first table in the brochure. 

 Looking down the column on the right hand side vou will see that at 

 times we have had as much as 688,000,000 bushels and 645,000,000 

 bushels the following year of carry-over of corn. It turned out on 

 those occasions quite fortimate that we did have those carry-overs 

 because in ensuing years we had very short crops. It lent some sta- 

 bility to the supply. 



I should also like to point out, Mr. Chairman, that livestock num- 

 bers in this country have been declining for some years and are rela- 

 tively low compared with previous experience. Therefore, if we are 

 going to engage in strenuous effort, as I hope we shall engage, in build- 

 ing back our livestock economy, a substantial supply of corn such as 

 700,000,000 bushels is not, in my opinion, an unreasonable amount. 



Mr. Hope. Mr. Chairman, I wanted to go into another matter, but 

 I think perhaps Mr. Sutton wants to go into this noncommercial 

 corn area matter, so I will yield to him. 



Mr. Sutton. Mr. Secretary, I can see your point of view where the 

 people in Indiana and Ohio probably would not be interested in cotton 

 quotas. However, this is very serious to the people in the State of 

 Tennessee. 



Corn is the second money crop of the State, and we are right at 

 that cut-off stage where we are getting the brunt of it. I was a little 

 disappointed that you stated it is not felt that quotas should apply 

 to corn production outside the commercial area. I notice by your 

 map that you provide that in the 1949 tentative area part of the State 

 of Tennessee is included. As a result, we are right at the cut-off 

 point. 



Mr. Woolley has said he has had no complaints about it. I have 

 had a lot of complaints from people all over the State of Tennessee, 

 but they are very much interested in referendums themselves and they 

 want to be included in the commercial area, since it is the No. 2 

 money crop of the State. 



Should the people in this commercial area decide not to have 

 quotas then the people in my State of Tennessee would only get 37 K 

 percent of parity. They would get 75 percent of the 50 percent, which 

 would only be 37)2 percent. You can see that is very disturbing to 

 the people of the State. 



In a case like that where you were right on the border line, do you 

 not think some provision should be made where they could be included 

 in that commercial area? 



Secretary Brannan. The type of provision which we suggest would 

 be some kind of modification or change in the definition of what is a 

 commercial area. If the committee feels that it is in the best interests 

 of farmers generally, and of the whole economy, to relax or broaden 

 the definition of what is a commercial area, namely, the 450 bushels of 



