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bring excessive production in line with demand, we first of all should 

 look at the consumption of corn in the form of feeding it to livestock, 

 no matter whether it be fed on the farm or where it is raised, or fed 

 on a farm a block away or fed in feed lots miles away. 



If I remember correctly, the court has even held that that is 

 marketing the corn. In other words, selling the corn to your neighbor, 

 who might feed it to the hogs, and using the corn yourself on your 

 own land are one and the same process. If you applied your acreage 

 limitation to 20 percent of the crop, it just would not be practical. 

 I do not think you would have any acreage limitations. 



Mr. Hill. Why do they make the statement that feeding corn 

 on a farm where it is produced is no different than shipping it to our 

 sheep feeders in Colorado? You know full well that there is all the 

 difference in the world. You have the movement of the corn to the 

 elevator, you have the freight on the corn, and you have the moving 

 of the corn into the sheep pens. I do not think there is any comparison. 



If a farmer feeds it on his farm, it is not anybody's business. We 

 are going to get in trouble on our whole program if you are going to 

 maintain that attitude. I am not worrying about what the Supreme 

 Court says, because they say something today and tomorrow they 

 reverse it. If you are going to support farm prices, and you will 

 never be able to work out a program if you are going to consider 

 the corn fed on the farm the same as corn fed in feed lots 5 miles away 

 or 505 miles away. 



Secretary Braxxax. Make the distinction, Mr. Hill, between the 

 production of hogs for commercial sale and the production of hogs 

 or chickens for use by the family on the farm. If you are talking 

 about the latter, of course there is some substance to your argument, 

 but if you are talking about converting corn into hogs for sale in 

 the market place, it seems to me there is little or no difference between 

 the sale of the corn to the man who will feed it to the hogs 10 miles 

 away and in feeding it yourself and selling the hog to that man or 

 his neighbor 10 miles away. 



Mr. AxDKESEX. On that point, for the benefit of my friend, 5^ou 

 brought out, Mr. Secretary, that if a m,an uses his cliickens or his 

 hogs or his cattle for feeding himself and his family and his hired man, 

 that is ail right. I happen to be a preacher's son m3"self and part of 

 the compensation of my father was to get chicken or a piece of meat 

 from the farmer. That was a part of his salary. That would not be 

 permitted under the interpretation that you cannot give it away, but 

 you can use it for your o»vn family. 



If a farmer should attempt to give a piece of meat or chicken, that 

 had been fed with some of this corn, to the preacher, that would not 

 be allowed. It would be subject to penalty. 



Secretary Brannax. I am not sure that is the correct interpretation. 

 I would have to ask my lawers about that one. 



Mr. AxDRESEX. Here is a problem that troubles me in connection 

 with our discussion yesterday about the commercial corn area and 

 the area outside the commercial area. We were talking about lower 

 support prices for corn outside of the area. I was looking over the 

 schedule^ of support prices and I notice that our leading corn-producing 

 States, like Iowa and Illinois, have a support price of around $1.37 or 

 $1.38 a bushel, whereas in Kentucky and Tennessee, it is $1.61 a 

 bushel. It runs from $1.59 to $1.60 in West Virginia. If seems to 



