126 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Woolley, what do you think would be the reaction 

 of the Secretary to a request from tlie Cointnittee on Agriculture to 

 have an observer attend those discussions, in order that the com- 

 mittee might have the benefit, not only of the recommendations of the 

 Secretar}^, but also of the discussions that take place? 



Mr. Woolley. I am sure that the ^Secretary would be most happy 

 to have the riiembers of the House committee and of the Senate 

 committee, or any members of the committees to sit in on the con- 

 ference. I am sure he would be delighted. 



Mr. Pace. Will you follow that up and confirm it to the committee? 



Mr. Woolley. Yes. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much. Will you continue with your 

 statement, Mr. Walker. 



Mr. Walker. The regulations thus prescribed by the Secretary 

 placed specific limitations upon adjustments that may be made by the 

 county and community committees in the computed allotments. 

 For specific reference as to the details of these regulations, there is 

 attached a copy of the regulations prescribed by the Secretary with 

 respect to the det(M-mina,tion of farm corn acreage allotments for the 

 1940 crop of corn. 



Attachment 1, to which reference is made in this statement, is an 

 example of the type of regulations under which instructions are issued 

 for the determination of acreage allotments. 



Mr. Pace. Just a moment. Without objection on the part of the 

 committee I will file with the clerk attachment I, to be included in the 

 record following Mr. Walker's statement. They are the regulations 

 issued for the 1940 crop? 



Mr. Walker. Yes. 



Mr. Pace. Will you proceed with your statement, Mf. Walker. 



Mr. Walker. I come now to instructions to county and community 

 committees. 



In order that these regulations governing the determination of 

 individual farm acreage allotments be carried out in as objective a 

 manner as is possible to assure uniform treatment, specific instructions 

 are issued to coimty and community committees. 



The methods and procedures provided for in such instructions may 

 be illustrated by the instructions that were issued for the determination 

 of the 1940 farm acreage allotments. A number of the more im- 

 portant steps followed by county and community committees, which 

 are typical of the nature of these instructions are given here for yom- 

 convenience. 



(The matter referred to is as follows:) 



The county committee shall review the historical average corn acreage and 

 determine if any such average does not reflect the acreage that would normally 

 be devoted to corn on the farm. Such determination shall be based upon and 

 confined to the following: 



(a) Failure to plant a substantial part of the usual acreage of corn on the farm 

 in any of the years used as a historical basis because of — 



1. Crop rotation practices on the farming tmit of which the farm was a part; 



2. Crop rotation practices no longer typical of the farm because of a change ii. 

 operator or ownership of the farm; 



3. The fact that part of the cropland on the farm was devoted to other than 

 cropland uses; 



4. Drought, flood, and so forth. 



