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iioed to do is to write a law saying- the Secretary of Agricullure can 

 make acreage allotments, period, because that is exactly the way it is 

 happening today in making acreage allotments under regulations 

 issued by the Secretary. 



I am. hoping sometiro.e next week this com.m.ittee will be able to 

 consider some of these specific cases, where you say here is a section 

 imder the corn law which doeg not authorize you to take the history 

 of production into account in making the farm, allotment but you 

 tell this committee that you do not follow^ that law, but under the 

 regulations j^ou do take into account, if you want to, the past acreage 

 of corn, and I presume you leave it to the individual county com.m.ittee. 

 Let me say this, Mr. Walker, today we have a county com.m.ittee under 

 the broad regulations of the Secretary following one formula in the 

 adjoining count v they are following an entirely different formida. 



Mr. Walker. No; that is not the case wdth corn. We have a set 

 of regulations that is applicable everywhere. There are limitations 

 within which the county com.m.ittee must operate under the regula- 

 tions prescribed by the Secretary, and it is under authority of law for 

 the Secretry to issue such regulations. 



Mr. Pace. Hour after .hour I get complaints saying that in one 

 county over here they made allotmenis on this basis, but over there 

 thev made them, on a different basis. I want to know why you 

 discriminate against some of them.. 



Mr. Walker. I do not know what the peanut procedure is, but 

 I do know about corn. 



Mr. Pace. There is no more authority under the peanut law to do 

 t.hat than there is under the corn law .o do wliat you are talking about. 



Mr. Bagwell. I would like to comment on the corn situation, if 

 I may. 



Mr. Chairman, you are correct as we interpret the law, that there is 

 no requirement in here that the Secretary in establishing allotm.ents 

 at the farm level shall use the corn-production history, but we do feel 

 that there is aro.ple authority to use it under the standard crop-rota- 

 tion practices, because in determining crop-rotation practices you 

 would have to take into account what acreages are planted to the 

 various crops, and that would, of course, cake into account the 

 acreage planted in corn. 



Mr. Pace. Suppose a farmer has a perfect crop-rotation system 

 and in that system there is no corn at all, then that is why I am 

 insisting that if he has a perfect rotation system, taking into account 

 m.aintaining and preserving his soil and everything else, but corn is 

 not one of the crops that he plants, if he is in one of these counties 

 then inasmuch as he ciualifies under a stisfactory rotation system, he 

 can get a corn allotment, although he has not grown any corn in the 

 last five years; is not that right? 



Mr. Walker. If this farm.er changes his rotation system wherein 

 he needs to produce corn the county committee can determ.ine for him 

 a corn acreage allotment, but it would l)e only upon the application 

 of the producer. 



Mr. Pace. If he needs to produce corn? 



Mr. Walker. If he has changed his type of farnnng, or his rotation 

 system on the farm so that he now needs to produce corn the county 

 committee can establisli for him a corn acreage allotment within the 



