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Mr. Walker. And they are not allocated — no allotments were 

 announced to the commercial area. 



Mr. Pace. That is 48,000,000? 



Mr. Walker. 48,000,000. 



Mr. Andresen. 48,000,000 for what vear? 



Air. Walker. 1949. 



Mr. Andresen. In this hypothetical case you have set up, the 

 commercial corn area, without it being extended through additional 

 acreage, would get 48,000,000 acres. You mean, on the basis of an 

 average of 88,000,000 set up for the last 10 years for the entire corn 

 area, the balance of that acreage — 40,000,000 acres — would l)e planted 

 in corn. Is that right? 



Mr. Walker. That is not quite the case. The plantings outside 

 the commercial area, which added to this 48,000,000 acres would give 

 you around 80,000,000 acres, according to these figures, not 88,000,000 

 acres. 



Mr. Andresen. Then you lose 8,000,000 acres in the apparent 

 attempt to control production, but you do not control the outside 

 commercial corn area. 



Mr. Walker. That is right. v 



Mr. Andresen. So that still could go up to 100,000,000, if you \ 

 permitted the outside commercial farm area to increase their acreage; 

 could it not? 



Mr. Walker. If they increased the acreage, yes. 



Mr. Andresen. And, by reason of that acreage, which they could 

 dD, if they were to follow the recommendations of the Agriculture 

 Department to raise more livestock, they could devote that whole 

 program to livestock, and the farmers in the commercial area would 

 be the ones to suffer; is that right? 



Mr. Walker. There has been some fear of that, but it actually has 

 not worked out in practice. The acreage outside the commercial area 

 has come down instead of going up. 



Mr. Andresen. Well, that may be true; but, of course, the yields 

 have increased in the reduced acreage outside the commercial area 

 as well. 



Mr. Walker. Well, not to the extent it has in the commercial area. 



Mr. Andresen. I would welcome that, but I saw where the great 

 State of Mississippi, in a dairying area, had produced 100 bushels of 

 corn to the acre. 



Mr. Walker. That is right in some places. 



Mr. Andresen. And I think that is true in some place in North 

 Carolina. 



Mr. Walker. They have 100-bushel-per-acre crops in North Caro- 

 lina under improved practices. 



Mr. Pace. That is on test farming? 



Mr. Walker. Yes. In these States, if they increase production to 

 the extent that they become a commercial area they would automati- 

 cally be placed in the commercial corn area, and the acreage allotment 

 would be applied to those counties the same as it would l:)e to coun- 

 ties in Iowa, for example. 



Mr. Andresen. Of course, then you would have a further reduction, 

 through expanding the commercial area. 



Mr. Walker. There are some parts of the country that I doubt if 

 they will ever produce enough corn to push up high enough to qualify 

 for inclusion in the commercial area. 



