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Mr. Walker. Yes; after taking into afcoiint crop-rotation prac- 

 tices followed. 



Mr. HoEVEN'. In determinrng whether or not to use 3 years or 4 

 years you do have in mind farm practices, such as crop rotation? 



Mr. Walker. That is right. 



Three-year rotation or four-yeai- rotation., or wha,->vt'r is necessary 

 really bring out the rotation system. Gen.erally 4 year^ will do. 



Mr. HoEVEX. That will be the basis for your conclusion? 



Mr. Walker. Yes. It is very seldom that more than 4 years would 

 be needed to determine that. 



Mr. SiTTTON. In the 4-year plan, you have a committee of farmers 

 handling it, but when you get to the national allotment it is deter- 

 mined 



Mr. Walker (interposing). I would not say it would. 



Mr. Sutton. How does it work, over-all? 



Mr. AYalker. Once you have conrputed the county allotments you 

 have very little room within which to make adjustments to take care 

 of the changing figures between areas. 



Mr. Sutton. Four years would do it? 



Mr. AYalker. Four years might be an improvement ; five would be 

 better. 



Mr. Sutton. Ten would not help us? 



Mr. Walker. Well, I do not know. You do not have any corn in 

 Tennessee under marketing quotas. 



Mr. Sutton. No. 



Mr. Walker. But the western part of Tennessee is going to come 

 under the commercial area. It is producing a lot of corn now. 



Mr. Face. All right, Mr. Walker, will you continue with your 

 statement. 



Ylr. Walker. In determining the indicated acreage of corn with 

 respect to soil types and topography, these regulations provided that 

 the county committee shall determine such acreage on the basis of 

 an appraisal made of the farm, taking into consideration the amount 

 of corn which under good soil-conservation practices may be planted 

 on the farm as indicated by the particular types of soil and the credi- 

 bility of the soils as related to the topography of the land. Such 

 indicated acreage of corn shall not be given more than equal weight 

 with the usual acreage of corn in the determination of farm acreage 

 allotments. 



The individual farm corn-acreage allotments shall be determined by 

 apportioning the county acreage allotment pro rata among the farms 

 on the basis of the usual acreage of corn adjusted by use of the indicated 

 corn acreage for the farm, except in cases where the usual acreage does 

 not reflect the acreage that would normally be planted to corn on the 

 farm because of specific reasons applicable to the present operation of 

 the farm. In such cases, the usual acreage of corn for the farm is to 

 be determined by committee appraisal. Such appraisal of the usual 

 acreage shall be based on the usual acreage for similar farms in the 

 county or community. 



For those farms for which the average historical acreage is less than 

 the acreage that would normally be planted to corn, the committee 

 will appraise the usual acreage at not more than an amount computed 

 by applying to the cropland on the farm the township or community 



