670 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Mr. KuPER. Thank you. 

 . Mr. Pace. Before calling the next witness let me say that tomorrow 

 at 10 o'clock representatives of the Department of Agriculture will be 

 here to submit recommendations for marketing quotas for wheat. I 

 do not know whether you gentlemen have come here to testify on the 

 very highly controversial question involved, which has not been pre- 

 sented so far, that is to say, what shall be the national allotment for 

 wheat, whether 800,000,000 bushels or what? How should you break 

 down the wheat between the States? How should you break down the 

 State allotment between counties? How should you break down the 

 county allotment among the farmers? And will you have a minimum 

 allotment to each farm or have a maximum allotment for each farm? 



Those are problems that this committee is going to have before it; 

 and I might say, for example, that for cotton we took a month; we 

 were sitting here a month, and we proposed to handle wheat in 3 days. 



I am just suggesting that in the hope that while generally every- 

 body, of course, is interested in what we are going to do with the land, 

 how many head of cattle they are going to feed, and all of that, but 

 it does not really have anything to do with the question before this 

 committee, and that is the question of writing a law. 



I am going to try to get through with the next witness if we can, 

 but I want to suggest to those here, that Mr. Parker, who is attorney 

 for this committee, remain here, and ask you gentlemen to remain after 

 we adjourn, and let him tell you what the wheat law is now as it 

 stands on the statute books. I think it is necessary to know that 

 before we talk about changes. The Department will be here tomorrow 

 morning at which time we will discuss the recommendations, and I 

 think it will be necessary to know what the law is now in order to 

 know what changes you want to make in it, and if I may, I would like 

 to suggest that you stay here a few minutes after we adjourn and have 

 Mr. Parker explain the law to you. 



Mr. CooLEY. And may I also suggest the possibility of having them 

 agree on a certain spokesman. 



Mr. Pace. I understand they have done that. 



Mr. Albert. Is it your purpose to have a meeting at 2 o'clock? 



Mr. Pace. I did not want to. We are planning to meet all day 

 tomorrow. The House will adjourn over tomorrow. If we can 

 have an all-day's meeting I hope we can complete without having 

 an all-day session Saturday. It will depend entirely on how expedi- 

 tious we are, and whether we can keep solely to the question that is 

 before the committee. I had hoped that we might adjourn today 

 and meet tomorrow at 10 o'clock, but we do want to hear one other 

 witness today. 



Mr. White. Just before the next witness, in view of the figures 

 that were given in answer to Mr. Hoeven's question, and so the 

 record will be complete, whether or not a 2 percent provision for new 

 growers in the wheat law the same as 



Mr. Hope. No; 3 percent. 



Mr. Hill. That is not very much. 



STATEMENT OF H. 0. WALES, REPRESENTING EASTERN COLORADO 

 DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Wales, representing the Eastern Colorado Develop- 

 ment Association, is here and we will be glad to hear him next. 



