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domestic per capita consumption levels which prevailed in the period 

 1920-29, adjusted for trends. This section further provides that in 

 carrying out the purposes of the act, it shall be the duty of the Secre- 

 tary to give due regard to the maintenance of a continuous and stable 

 supply of agricultural commodities from domestic production adequate 

 to meet consumer demand at prices fair to both producers and con- 

 sumers. 



In order that the national corn acreage allotment determination as 

 derived from the formula provided under section 328 of the act con- 

 forms with the consumer safeguards provision of section 304, the 

 Department, in computing the reserve supply level, employs a pro- 

 cedure which meets the requirements of both these provisions. 



On the basis of the determinations arrived at through the employ- 

 ment of this procedure for the 1949 crop of corn, the computation of 

 the national corn acreage allotment for the commercial corn-producing 

 area would be as follows: 



Feed for livestock, domestic consumption, 2,550,000,000 bushels. 



Feed for livestock for export of meat products, 60,000,000 bushels. 



Feed for workstock, 150,000,000 bushels. 



That makes a total for feed of 2,760,000,000 bushels. 



Adding the corn for industrial uses, seed, and direct food, aggre- 

 gating 270,000,000 bushels, gives us a total domestic use of 

 3,030,000,000 bushels. 



Adding the exports, adjusted to normal for 1949-50, of 150,000,000 

 bushels, gives us the normal domestic consumption and export of 

 3,180,000,000 bushels. 



The reserve suppl}^ level, meaning the amount of corn that we are 

 setting up as a target to produce in the commercial corn areas, together 

 with the carry-over stock and that produced outside of the commercial 

 area and the small imports we may get, would give us a figure of 

 3,498,000,000, i. e., 10 percent more than the computed "normal 

 domestic consumption and export." 



Now, deduct from that total the carry-over indicated on October 

 1, 1949, of 700,000,000 bushels, leaving a total United States produc- 

 tion needed of 2,798,000,000 bushels. 



Deducting the production in the noncommercial area of around 

 800,000,000 bushels indicates the production required in the com- 

 mercial area of 1,998,000,000 bushels. 



The indicated national corn acreage allotment for the commercial 

 area, on the basis of an average yield of 41.6 bushels per acre in the 

 commercial area, would give us an acreage allotment of 48,000,000 

 acres. The 48 million acres then would be compared with the 1947 

 acreage in the same counties of about 52.2 acres. We do not have 

 the county acreage figures for 1948, but we do have them for 1947, 

 the last year for which county acreage data are available. This 

 would represent a reduction, if we had an allotment, of about 4.2 

 million acres for the commercial area. 



Mr. AxDRESEN. How does that compare ^^dth the anticipated 

 planting in the commercial corn-growing area for this year? 



Mr. Walker. The 1949 plantings, in the counties of the commercial 

 corn-producing area would be around 52,000,000 acres. On the basis 

 of the estimates of intentions to plant in the States of the commercial 

 area of about 99 percent of the 1947 acreage, the acreage for the 



