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Secretary Brannan. That could happen. That is the reason that 

 in an over-all program there must be a very careful compensating- 

 action with respect to the various crops. 



Mr. Albert. Mr. Chairman, will the gentlemen yield for just one 

 question on this? 



Mr. PoAGE. Yes, I will yield. 



Mr. Albert. Did you have many complaints, Mr. Secretary, that 

 because of the lack of storage facilities the price-support program was 

 not operative in noncommercial areas? 



Secretary Brannan. Mr. McAi'thur, can you answer that one for 

 us? 



Mr. McArthur. Price-support programs were not operative in 

 many noncommercial areas, largely due to the not yet developed 

 facilities that will preserve grain under conditions of high moisture, 

 high temperatures, insect infestation, and so forth. 



Mr. Albert. Your original statement was, I believe, to the effect 

 that there was not much support in the noncommercial areas. In 

 Oklahoma, as I understood it, there would have been a call on the 

 CCC to a considerable extent had there been storage facilities. 



Mr. Andresen. Will the gentleman yield for just one question? 



Mr. Hope. Yes. 



Mr. Andresen. On the line of what Mr. Sutton has had to say, you 

 indicated that if the committee felt that a change could be made to 

 extend the commercial corn area that would not be objectionable to you. 

 What is the recommendation of the Department in that respect? 



Secretary Brannan. As indicated in our paragraph, Congressman 

 Andresen, we are of the opinion that many of these questions are inter- 

 dependent as between crops and as between the various farm practices. 

 We are trying to bring all our crops together in broad general terms, 

 and then make them more specific as we develop them. 



We hope, as I have indicated, to have all of that done for you as 

 quickly as we can, right after the first of the month. 



Mr. Andresen. Is your statement on marketing quotas for corn to- 

 day predicated upon the existence of present law? 



Secretary Brannan. Yes; we were discussing the existing law, and 

 that is the reason we supplied the analysis of the existing law to you. 



Mr. Andresen. One thing that disturbs me a little bit, you stated 

 in your statement that when marketing quotas are in operation in 

 the commercial area for corn you would also suggest acreage allot- 

 ments for competing feed grains. If we have marketing quotas for 

 corn and marketing quotas for wheat at the same time, which is 

 nation-wide, then you have your acreage allotments for the other 

 grains, so, what are the farmers going to produce? What other crops 

 can they go to? 



Secretary Brannan. The broad answer is, of course, that there 

 are a lot of soil conserving crops which tie in to an increase in live- 

 stock production. One of the great deficiencies in oar total agri- 

 cultural production picture is in the livestock area. 1 do not mean 

 to say that that is an unlimited area, but I do indicate to you that 

 there is still a long way to go on it before we reach the same kind of 

 problems that we are reaching in grain. 



Mr. Andresen. You stated that we have the lowest livestocK 

 population that we have had for many years. Still you want to 



