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Secretary Brannan. No. 



Mr. Andresen. But you say there is no difference between silage 

 corn and corn that is permitted to mature. 



Secretary Brannan. I say there is no difference in the ultimate use 

 of it. There is a difference, of course. 



Mr. Andresen. But you want silage corn controlled because of the 

 similarity of feeding operations. 



Secretary Brannan. No, I do not want silage corn controlled. As 

 I understand the law and the regulations now, silage corn should be 

 included in establishing the factor known as commercial corn, or corn 

 for market which goes into his over-all factor of determining his 

 marketing quota. Otherwise, he could raise any amount of corn and 

 put it all in silage and feed it all to his hogs through that process, if 

 that were efficient and economical, and avoid complying with the 

 same kind of rules and regulations his fellow farmers voted for. 



Mr. Andresen. As you know, in many areas, and particularly in 

 the dairy areas, if they are permitted to continue their existence, there 

 a farmer generally feeds everything he raises on his farm to his live- 

 stock. 



Secretary Brannan. And usually buys some more. 



Mr. Andresen. And he sells the products from his livestock. That 

 is the way those farms are run. 



Prior to the war when we had acreage allotments, all those who 

 wanted to cooperate with the program and receive the benefits had 

 to comply in their production with the acreage allotment, and that was 

 particularly true with corn. I am sorry that you have laid special 

 stress on the silage end of the corn in your prepared statement. 



Secretary Brannan. I was only reciting the law, if I understand it 

 correctly. 



Mr. Andresen. I understand you recited the law, which I tried to 

 amend but did not succeed. I will no doubt try it again. 



You should draw the line between silage corn and the regular mature 

 corn because the farmer cannot go out ordinarily and buy corn to fill 

 his silos with. That has to be in a green stage. He can go out and 

 buy mature corn, but that is not worth anything for his silage. The 

 silage corn is for roughage and nutritive value for the cattle. You 

 recognize that, do you not? 



Secretary Brannan. That is right. 



Mr. Sutton. Will the gentleman yield? 



Mr. Andresen. I am asking if the Secretary recognizes the differ- 

 ence in the feed value of the two. 



Secretary Brannan. I recognize that there are differences in the 

 purposes and uses of corn, certainly. 



Mr. Andresen. In silage corn you feed the entire stalk so you get 

 the roughage and the feed value with it in addition to the corn, while 

 in mature corn you do not feed the entire stalk but just the grain. 



Mr. Sutton. Mr. Andresen, would that not be classified along with 

 your alfalfa and lespedeza and other hay? 



Mr. Andresen. Hardly that, although the Department did recom- 

 mend that instead of feeding silage corn we should feed alfalfa and 

 clover from our silos, mixing in a little salt and cottonseed meal and 

 other things. We are not going to undertake that. 



Mr, Pace. Mr. Secretary, I think what Mr. Andresen is interested 

 in is whether or not you would recommend that no corn producer's 



