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Secretary Brannan. My only thougbt on it, xVIr. Chairman, is that 

 we are day by day studying the very same information that we made 

 available to you in these brochures. If the committee cared to 

 continue their studies of them, I think when it comes time for the 

 final recommendation to be acted upon, or other recommendations to 

 be acted upon, you will be well equipped to say, "We agree with this 

 because we have studied it," or "We disagree with it because we have 

 studied it." We will have to go through some kind of discussion and 

 investigation either before or after. 



Mr. Sutton. Will the gentleman yield? 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Sutton. 



Mr. Sutton. Mr. Secretary, it will be your intention to bring us an 

 over-all picture of all the phases with reference to the Aiken bill and 

 the entire program, not just corn or cotton or wheat, but for the whole 

 picture? 



Secretary Brannan. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Sutton. That is personally what I am hoping will be done. 



Secretary Brannan. We intend to be as comprehensive as we can. 

 We hope we will not be too comprehensive. 



Mr. Sutton. I would like to ask one question, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Secretary, on page 3 of your statement, should the commercial 

 corn area be expanded, you make the statement: 



The elimination of the concept of the commercial corn area and the sub- 

 stitution of the entire country as a corn-producing area was considered at recent 

 meetings with PATA State committeemen from corn-producing areas. These 

 farmer-representatives indicated that farmer-thinking in the commercial as well 

 as in the noncommercial area was not in favor of changing the formula for bringing 

 additional areas into the commercial corn-producing area. 



Maybe Mr. WooUey can answer this question a little better than 

 you, since he was there. Was that group of committeemen repre- 

 sentative of all sections of the country, or was it just from the com- 

 mercial corn belt? 



Secretary Brannan. From all parts of the country. 



Mr. WooLLEY. We did not have 48 States there, but we had repre- 

 sentative States in from all of the feed-deficit areas. For example, 

 we had present a representative from Tennessee. 



Mr. Sutton. That was State committeemen, not county men? 



Air. WooLLEY. That is correct. There was a man from California, 

 a man from the feed-deficit area in the East. We had 14 States 

 present. 



Mr. Sutton. Do you remember the representative from the State 

 of Tennessee? 



Mr. WooLLEY. I do not recall him at this time. We had a number 

 of meetings and they have all been in here at one time or another. 



Mr. Sutton. The reason I was asking that, I have had so many 

 of the county committeemen get in touch with me. 



Secretary Brannan. Would you like to have that phoned back to 

 you, \Ir. Sutton? We will give you the name. 



Mr. Sutton. I would like it, if it is not too much trouble. 



Mr. WooLLEY. There were seven States outside the corn area and 

 seven States inside. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Andresen. 



Air. Andresen. Mr. Secretary, getting back to the feed situation, 

 do you feel that the average small-sized farmers should be permitted 



