118 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Mr. Pace. The welfare of people who eat the food produced on the 

 farm, but nowhere in the law is there a comparable provision, other 

 than the fair price provision, that takes into account the economic 

 welfare of the man who does the work in the field. You understand 

 what I am talking about? 



Mr. Walker. Yes. 



Mr. Albert. What does the support-price program do about it? 



Mr. Pace. What I am speaking of is where the farmer does not 

 have enough acreage allotted to him to produce enough crop to get a 

 sufficient return to provide a fair standanl of living for himself and 

 family. 



Mr. Albert. Tliat is what I am talking about. 



Mr. Hill. The marketing quota is fixed without regard to the 15 

 acres of corn; that would be excluded? 



Mr. Walker. Exclusive of the 15 acres? 



Mr. Hill. Tn the commercial area? 



Mr. Walker. Yes; that is right. 



Mr. Hill. Does the law establish the 15-acre exemption? 



Mr. Walker. That is in the law. 



Mr. Hill. It does not make any dift'erence whether he produces 10 

 bushels or 100 bushels to the acre, that 15 acres would still be excluded? 



Mr. Walker. That is right; that is the provision in the law. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. W^alker, we have a section in the law with respect to 

 cotton which exempts so many pounds. Why do you apply pounds to 

 cotton on the one hand and do not apply it to bushels as to corn? 



Mr. Walker. With respect to corn the law exempts 15 acres, or 

 300 bushels per farm. 



Mr. Hill. Is it not true, that his production is excluded on the 15 

 acres, even though he produces 100 bushels to the acre? 



Mr. Walker. Yes; if he had no more than 15 aci'cs, he is excluded 

 from marketing quotas. 



Air. Hill. And it does not make any dift'erence if he produces 

 100 bushels? 



Mr. Walker. Well, let us take another farm that has an annual 

 yield of say 10 bushels to the acre, he could have 30 acres and still the 

 law would not be applicable to him, because he is exempt on 300 

 bushels. 



Mr. Pace. Either? 



Mr. Walker. The Solicitor here will have to help me out on that. 



Mr. WooLLEY. It would be the larger of the two; 300 bushels, or 

 15 acres; whichever is the greater, whichever gives him the best pro- 

 duction, is exempted. 



Mr. Hill. That is in the law ? 



Mr. Walker. Yes. 



Mr. Hill. That is the point I had in mind the other day when I 

 asked the question about protecting the farmer who did not sell any 

 corn. That is exactly what is beuig done under this provision. 



Mr. Woolley. 1 do not recall that. 



Mr. Hill. Someone down there said it would not do it. I am sure 

 the recoi'd will bear me out. But, he is exempt for the 15 acres. 



Mr. Walker. Or 300 bushels. 



Mr. Woolley. That is written right into the law. 



Mr. Hill. Wliy 15 acres; why not 11 or why not 10 



Mr. Andersen. Does that apply to each farm? 



