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result of luechauical improvements and the addition of fertilizer, and 

 the use of hj^brid seed, while there has been a decrease in acreage, 

 there has been an increase m the j^ield, to the extent, I understand in 

 North Carolina they can raise a 100 bushels of corn to the acre and they 

 are getting a premium for doing so under this program. 



Air. Pace. That is the reason the}^ are planting it. 



Mr. .A.NDRESEN. I want to give them every premium for planting 

 corn, but certainly if they have got the right to plant corn with that 

 premium then we in our area should be permitted to plant corn 

 enough to have feed for livestock on the farm. 



Mr. Pace. If they are subject to the same acreage control as the 

 commercial area, they shoidd have the same benefits from the support 

 program. 



Mr. Andresen. T agree with that, but Vv^hat I am suggesting is that 

 there is no control over the no.ncominercial area. 



Mr. Pace. I do not think the producers in the commercial area 

 would ever submit to marketing quotas unless they were assured the 

 noncommercial area would have comparable control over their a<>reage. 



Mr. .\nd.resen. I do not know whethar they will ever have market- 

 ing quotas or not; but, if they do, it is because the Department or 

 someone will have to go out and do a selling job. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Walker, the language you read was related to the 

 trends, and the trends over th? last 3 years are the dominating con- 

 trol ; are they not? 



Mr. Walker. Not dominating. The last 3 years are given more 

 w^eight in the trend formula; that is correct. 



Mr. Pace. That 3 years would give you about the same answer even 

 though you did not take the other period into account, more or less? 



Mr. Walke.r. No; it would not. \'^Tren we take the counties where 

 the acreage is going down, the average of the last 3 years would be at 

 the lowest point, but the 10-year average would be considerably higher 

 than the average of the last 3 years, which would, when averaged with 

 the last 3 years, result in a figure higher than the a,verage for the last 3 

 years of the 10-year period. 



Mr. Pace. Then how much weight did you givs to the last 3 years? 



Mr. Walker. We gave 50 percent weight to the last 3 years by 

 themselves, as against 50 percent to the 10-year average, and that 

 also has the 3 years in it. 



Mr. Pace. That is the weight you use in arriving at the percentage? 



Mr. Granger. It would not mean 50 percent? 



Mr. Walker. It is really more than 50 percent.. I have not 

 figured it out in detail, but it would be more than 50 percent. 



Mr. Hill. It would be a third greater, which would make it more 

 than 50 percent. 



Mr. Walker. The total weight for the last 3 years would exceed 

 60 percent. 



Mr. Pace. According to my calculation, it would be about 65. Go 

 ahead with your statement. 



Mr. Walker. The national acreage allotment is then apportioned 

 among the counties of the commercial corn-producing area on the 

 basis of the adjusted 10-year average county acreage arrived at as 

 shown above. 



Farm allotments: The applicable provisions for determining 

 individual farm corn-acreage allotments are contained in section 



