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Mr. Granger. I know, but there is a definite relationship between 

 the price of corn and the price of Hvestock, is there not? 



Mr. Walker. I did not get your question. 



Mr. Granger. Is there a definite relationship between the price 

 of corn and livestock? In other words, if corn prices move up what 

 happens to livestock? 



' Mr. Walker. If the price of corn moves up the tendency is to 

 decrease feeding. And your question is what is the ratio? 



Mr. Granger. Yes. 



Mr. Walker. There is a definite relationship. 



Mr. Pace. Just one more question with ref'erence to this calculation 

 you have set out here, in determining the production and the supply; 

 is it worth the money you have to spend to get it up? What I mean 

 is this: In answering Mr. Granger's question you indicated what you 

 do in trying to figure out how- m,uch livestock is exported, and how 

 much corn it takes to produce that export, and then 3^ou adjust the 

 exports to the normal 1949-50 year. Now is it not just the same as 

 trying to arrive at the consumption of cotton by trying to figin-e out 

 how much is needed for shirts, overalls, and other garments, how 

 much will go for export, and how much cotton you will need for the 

 manufacture of cotton for domestic consumption, to arrive at the 

 domestic consumption, and ari-ive at how many bales of cotton yon 

 need for export, and how many bales will be needed for over-all? 



In other words, what you are trying to arrive at is the ov(M--all 

 domestic consumption ? 



Mr. Walker. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. Whether thecorn is fed to chickens which are shipped 

 to England or shipped to my own town, since we hear so much noAV- 

 adays about the expenses of the Government, and the Uke, just to give 

 an answer to this question: Do you think the information you have 

 given here is substantially dift'erent from what you would have 

 secured if you had merely gone out and made an investigation and 

 estimated the amount of corn consumed domestically and how much 

 is exported? Would you not have arriv(Hl at about the same con- 

 clusion? 



Mr. Walker. I think we would have ai-rived at about the same 

 conclusion. This is only the method that w(> follow in arriving at this 

 conclusion. This method was adopted in order to give us a check 

 needed against tl\e consumer safeguard provisions of section 304 of 

 the act of 1938. 



Mr. Pace. The question that comes to my mind is whether you 

 think it advisal)le to go through this method? 



Mr. Walkefi. It can be done without going through all of these 

 d'etails. 



' Mr. Albert. It might be well to know how much food, iti the foi-m 

 of meats, is being exported? 



Mr. Pace. Well, they can get thtit without going through this 

 method. 



Mr. Walker. It is a very simple method to use, once developed. 



Mr. Pace. That is correct. The only thing I had in mind is 

 whether oi' not you would have to do this. 



Mr. Walketi. Taking up next the State allotments. 



Since the commercial corn-producing area is clefined on a county 

 l>asis, there are no provisions in legislation for the apportionment of 

 the national corn-acreage allotment amono- States. 



