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To bring" the situation out into tlie open, which is the way I would 

 rather do things I realize that the corn growers' have never had market- 

 ing quotas and from the testimony we have had before this committee 

 I do not know that we ever will have marketing quotas on corn until 

 most of them go broke. That has been the experience with marketing 

 quotas. 



On the other hand, with cotton, peanuts, tobacco, so far as I know, 

 the Secretary has never gone through this formula of having merely 

 acreage allotments. 



We have to submit to quotas. If we did not submit under the old 

 law we got no support, and under the Aiken bill, we would get only 

 50 percent of parit}' support. 



Therefore, I have had misgivings as to the advisability of using acre- 

 age allotments alone. 



The second question is : What would happen to those of us in the 

 noncommercial areas who have had no voice in the referendum, no 

 A'ote as to whether or not quotas shall be in effect ? 



AVe get only 75 percent of the support that the corn growers of 

 Illinois and Iowa enjoy. As I see it, if marketing quotas were voted 

 down by the commercial corn area, then the only support for corn in 

 the noncommercial area would be STi/o percent of parity. Is that right ? 

 It would be 75 percent of 50 percent. 



Mr. Klixe. I think that is right ; yes', sir. 



Mr. Pace. To what extent does your recommendation go in that 

 connection? Do you recommend that if the commercial area votes 

 down quotas both the commercial area and the noncommercial area will 

 get the level of support fixed by the flexible formula? Under our 

 assumption it is 75 percent of parity. 



Mr. Kline. I am not sure I got that question, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Pace. Assuming that the support on corn would be 75 percent 

 of parity and that the corn growers in the commercial area voted 

 against quotas, then 5^ou recommend acreage allotments in the com- 

 mercial areas. 



What do yau propose to do about the support price of corn in the 

 noncommercial areas? 



]Mr. Kline. First, our proposal is that the support price in the condi- 

 tion which 3^011 cite would be 75 percent of parity, not 50. That is our 

 proposal. 



Mr. Pace. I was assuming on the basis of the supply of corn your 

 support under the flexible schedule would be 75 percent of parity. We 

 will make that assumption. 



Mr. Kline. And then that we have subsequently neither acreage 

 allotments nor marketing quotas? 



Mr. Pace. No; if your recommendation is carried out and the corn 

 growers in the commercial area vote against quotas, then you recom- 

 mend that they have acreage allotments for the 75 percent of parity 

 support, assuming that would be the level under the flexible formula. 



Then what do you propose to do for the corn growers under those 

 circumstances in the noncommercial area? 



Mr. Klixe. Under the act as it now stands, their level of support 

 would be three-quarters of 75, if I am not mistaken, 75 percent of the 

 loan in the area. 



Mr. Pace. That is not tne law now. Is that what you propose to 

 change it to ? Under the law now, the noncommercial area would get 



