COEN ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS AND MARKETING QUOTAS 



MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1949 



House of Representatives, 

 Special Subcommittee of the 



Committee on Agriculture. 

 The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., Hon. Stephen Pace (chau-man) 

 presiding. 



Mr. Pace. The committee will come to order. 



Mr. Walker, will you please come back to the stand. I believe you 

 have a prepared statement. 



STATEMENT OF T. B. WALKER— Resumed 



Mr. Walker. Yes. 



Mr. Pace. Are you ready to proceed? 



Mr. Walker. Yes. If it please the chairman, I would like to read 

 this statement. 



Mr. Pace. Do you want to complete it before you are interrupted? 



Mr. Walker. Not necessarily. 



Mr. Pace. Very well; you may proceed. 



Mr. Walker. Mr. Chairman, this statement has been prepared in 

 more or less a summary fashion, and gives the high lights of the pro- 

 visions concerning the determination of the national acreage allot- 

 ment and the apportionment of that allotment among counties. It 

 indicates the regulations prescribed by the Secretary for carrying out 

 the provisions of law. Although these regulations are not quoted in 

 their entirety, the statement covers enough of them to indicate what 

 they are designed to accomplish, and the instructions that have been 

 issued under those regulations for use by the county and community 

 committees. 



Mr. Pace. Before you proceed, Mr. Walker, are you prepared at 

 this moment to discuss the question whether or not such provisions 

 should be revised or changed? 



Mr. Walker. I am not supposed to render an opinion. I under- 

 stand that the recommendations of the Department are coming up 

 very soon. 



Mr. Hoeven. Are you in position to give your personal views? 



Mr. Walker. I can give my personal viewpoint; yes. 



Mr. Pace. Very well, you may proceed with your statement, Mr. 

 Walker. 



Mr. Walker. First, the national acreage allotment. The national 

 acreage allotment for corn is required by law to be that acreage in the 

 commercial corn-producing area which, on the basis of the average 

 yield of corn in such area for the 10 preceding calendar years, adjusted 

 for abnormal weather and trends in yields, will produce an amount 



99 



