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Mr. AxDRESEN. That would be 154.75 head weighing 1,000 pounds 

 apiece. 



Mr. WoRLEY. Suppose Mr. "X" has been running a thousand head 

 for years. That is going to cKp him, is it not? 



Secretary Braxnan. How many do you market a year? 

 Air. WoRLEY. Say a thousand. Say he is running two thousand 

 and marketing a thousand. What would happen? 

 Secretary Brannan. It would clip you. 



Mr. WoRLEY. I would get hurt pretty bad in that process, would 

 I not? 



Secretary Brannan. You woidd not for a few years but you could. 

 YoLi might sell them to feeders, for example, which wojld not affect 

 you. You might sell them for breeding stock. You might do a lot 

 of things \\'ith them. 



Air. WoRLEY. They just could not go on the market. 

 Secretary Brannan. You could not go in the market and enjoy 

 the support price too. They could go into the market all right. 



Air. Simpson. I think the question has been answered, but you 

 asked what would happen to the raiser of a thousand head of steers. 

 Wliat I wanted you to find out from the Secretary was if he had a 

 thousand head of steers that weighed a thousand pounds apiece, then 

 what would happen when he was ready to market them under the 

 unit rule? 



Secretary Brannan. I think we have answered that. 

 Air. WoRLEY. I have one further question, if you do not mJnd,. 

 Mr. Granger. • 



This is, to say the least, an ambitious program. It has a new look. 

 I am not at this time critical of your plan, but there are a lot of things 

 I would still like to know about. What would you thinlv about 

 applying your program now to the support program on hogs as an 

 experiment? Suppose Congress gave you authority to start your 

 program immediately in support of pork. 



Secretary Brannan. I would say very frankly we would welcome it. 

 Air. WoRLEY. That might hon out any bugs or defects. 

 Secretary Brannan. That is right, and I admit, Air. Worley, there 

 wiU be some. 



Air. WoRLEY. There are bound to be. 

 Se^Jptary Brannan. Certainly. 



Air. Worley. But you would hke to have the authority to experi- 

 ment with some commodity at the present time? 



Secretary Brannan. Now we are speaking of the method and not 

 the limitation, the method of support, the production payment. 



Air. Worley. I am talking about the entire program. Do you 

 not think it would be taking quite a gamble to enact all of yoiu- 

 program, to make it applicable to all commodities? 



Secretary Brannan. Except for the unit limitation, Air. Worley. 

 You have a comparable program, a similar program now applicable 

 to all commodities, except that you do have available the method 

 which we have referred to as production paj^meni, and which some 

 people refer to as subsidy and which others refer to as compensatory 

 payments and so forth. 



The Chairman. Are there any fm-ther questions, Air. Granger? 

 Air. Granger. I think not. 



