80 GENERAL FAEM PROGRAM 



Mr. PoAGE. Will the gentleman from Colorado yield? 



Mr. Hill. I would like to ask this question : Let us suppose a farmer 

 has 20 aeres of corn and 10 acres of wheat. Please run that through 

 all your intricate organization plans and tell me how he is affecting the 

 corn market and the Chicago grain market. He never sells a bushel of 

 it. 



Secretary Brannan. You understand I am not interested in affect- 

 ing the prices on the Chicago Board of Trade. 



Air. Hill. The only difference now is that you are manipulating 

 the market and they used to do it. Just tell me how he affects the 

 market. He is selling milk or fat hogs. How does he affect the 

 market? 



Secretary Brannan. He afTects the food market of the country 

 when he sells meat. 



Mr. Hill. What food market? 



Secretary Brannan. The livestock food market of the country. 

 That is his business. The corn is one step in the process of preparing 

 his final cash commodity for the market. The cash commodity is 

 pork. 



Mr. Hill. When why all this complex corn program, if he is not 

 selling corn? 



Secretary Brannan. He is selling corn in the form of hogs. 



Mr. Hill. Then control the hogs. Control the milk. You are 

 doing pretty well on milk right now. My milk has gone down 2 

 cents per quart. 



Secretary Brannon. We have a statutory obligation to control 

 with respect to the price support on hogs. There have been times 

 when I think they attempted to limit the production of hogs. My 

 own recollection is that it was quite unsuccessful, but nevertheless it 

 was a statutoiy obligation to undertake. 



Mr. PoAGE. Will the gentleman from Colorado yield? 



Mr. Hill. He was going to give us an answer as to why the family- 

 type farm should not be included in this program. 



Secretary Brannan. Mr. Hill, if you will turn to the tables entitled 

 "Percentage of corn acreage allotments by respective size groups, by 

 States, in 1941," which was the last time they had allotments, you 

 will find the specific sized farm 3'ou were speaking of, 20 to 30 acres, 

 composed 16.6 percent of all the farms in the country, all the farms 

 having acreage allotments in the country. 



If you take the range from 10 on up to about 40 or 50, or from 5 to 

 50, you have 7 percent of all the corn producers in the country. In 

 those brackets you would find my definition of the family-sized farm. 



Mr. Andresen. A 50-acre farm, or where ho raises 50 acres of 

 f#m? 



Secretary Brannan. I do not know what the acreage of the farm 

 is, but this is a 50-acre allotment of corn. 



Mr. Andresen. I can show you two or three hundred acre farms 

 where they are only given 15 acres of corn to be planted under the 

 corn-acreage program. 



Secretary Brannan. That is historic. 



Mr. PoAGE. Will the gentleman yield? 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Poage. 



Mr. PoAGE. Mr. Secretary, does it not seem reasonable that the 

 way to reach the objective we are now discussing of enabling a man 



