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corn produced in Georgia that is not fed except the little that is ground 

 into meal. We cannot ship our meal out of the State on account of 

 the terrijfic infestation by weevils. We cannot ship our corn out of 

 the State, but have to use it right where it is. It works this way: 

 The Georgia corn farmer gets 10 to 15 bushels to an acre, and he gets 

 75 percent of what the man gets who produces 70 and 80 bushels per 

 acre. It is costing our corn growers probably three times as nmch 

 to produce a bushel of corn, and yet he gets only three-quarters as 

 much support price. 



Mr. Smith. It is a wholly inequitable arrangement. The same 

 type of thing exists in some of the wheat countries, as Mr. Talbott 

 testified to. His farm is one that is outside the commercial area for 

 corn. Yet he can grow corn that could be used for feed on his farm 

 if the rewards of using it there were such as to induce him to do it 

 instead of gi^owing wheat. The whole thing goes back to what kind 

 of adjustment program you have. We agree that the commercial 

 and noncommercial areas in corn have created very great inequities. 

 We are afraid of it in wheat even if the factors that Mr. Hope has 

 mentioned were not present. 



Mr. Pace. And how does it work under the Aiken bill? The law 

 is that the noncommercial areas cannot vote. The commercial areas 

 vote. 



Mr. Smith. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. If they turn down quotas, then the support price is 50 

 percent of parity. Then the price in my State is 75 percent of that. 



Mr. Smith. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. Although my farmers have no voice in quotas, they get 

 a support of 37i/^ percent of parity on account of the vote of someone 

 else in another part of the country. I agree with you it is most 

 inequitable. 



I am not going to try to rewrite the corn law. I do not think it is 

 becoming to me, but I do from time to time feel called upon to 

 point out some of the inequities of the thing. There may not be an 

 answer to it. 



Mr. Smith. When your corn price is reduced to that point, it is 

 going to be reflected in much lower meat prices eventually that will 

 hurt Mr. Kline just as much as anybody else and maybe more. 



Mr. Pace. That is exactly right. As I say, I do not know where the 

 answer is, but I am not too enthusiastic about setting up a commercial 

 area for wheat if it is going to be like the one we have for corn, 



Mr. Smith. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much, Mr. Smith. 



I have here a statement of Hon. John A. Blatnik, a Member of 

 Congress from Minnesota, in support of the Secretary's recommenda- 

 tion which will be included in the record at this point. 



(The statement referred to is as follows :) 



Statement of Hon. John A. Batnik, a Member of Congress From Minnesota 



Mr. Blatnik. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. I take this op- 

 portunity to go on record in support of legislation embracing the April 7 recom- 

 mendations of Secretary of Agriculture Brannan made to the .ioint meeting of 

 the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. I wish to urge also that the New 

 Deal farm program be extended and strengthened all along the line to provide 

 permanent security for all persons who till the soil. 



