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acceptable, realizing that the modernized partity would lower the 

 support level of wheat to some extent, but that in view of the change 

 in technique, and with improved crop production methods coming 

 into use, we believe that modernized parity would be fair, and I 

 believe the Washington boys — do they not, Ray? — agree on the 

 recommendation that the 90 percent of parity be continued. 



Mr. Hope. Let me verify that a little further: In other words, until 

 a program such as you suggest could be put into effect, your group in 

 the Pacific Northwest favor the type of price support at 90 percent of 

 modernized parity? 



Mr. Taylor. Yes; with acreage allotment. 



Mr. Hope. Yes. 



Mr. White. That answers the question I was going to bring out. I 

 would like to ask one more question, Mr. Hope, if you are through? 



Mr. Hope. Yes, 



Mr. White. You would include a provision for marketing quotas, 

 if necessary? 



Mr. Taylor. Yes. We feel if we are going to have production 

 controls, as a result in the fluctuation of yields, and production, such a 

 provision is necessary to secure cooperation; and, the marketing quota 

 would serve to secure more compliance. 



Mr. White. At a recent meeting of a Nation-wide cotton group 

 down at Memphis, Tenn., in looking over the roster of people coming 

 from California, my State, I noticed several 



Mr. Taylor. I am a native of California myself. 



Mr. White. I am glad to hear that. I was amazed to find that of 

 the people who were registered as cotton growers, that actually there 

 was only one man out of about 10 who was really a cotton grower and 

 nothing else. In other words, they were in other businesses, or in 

 another phase of the cotton industry, in which their interest was not 

 exactly parallel with that of the cotton producer. 



I am not impugning anybody's motives — and we had a little ruckus 

 on this matter in the committee the other day, and I hope it will not 

 arise again today — but I would like to ask whether or not you gentle- 

 men are engaged exclusively in the production of wheat? And just 

 by looking at you I would say that you are an entirely honest man; 

 you appear to be that. 



Mr. Taylor. See that that gets in the record. 



Mr. White. I just want to be sure that you gentlemen are engaged 

 only in the production of wheat, that you do not have any middle 

 men in the group. 



Mr. Taylor. I am very glad to answer that question. All of the 

 group here are dirt farmers, operating their own farms, drive their 

 own tractors, and do their own work, and that is our only source of 

 income. 



Mr. Bell, is the administrator of the Oregon Wheat Commission, 

 and we employ him as the administrator of the wheat commission, 

 in order that we might have some way to carry out the interests of 

 the wheat growers and the wheat growing industry without going to 

 the State legislature or to Congress asking for money. 



Mr. Pace. May I, in the interest of time, ask that we not get into 

 that, because we have so many other witnesses to be heard this morn- 

 ing. We thank you very much for your statement, Mr. Taylor. 



Mr. Taylor. Thank you. 



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