678 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Mr. Andresen. Does the Department expect to delay this matter 

 imtil we are about to adiourn and then drop it in the lap of Congress, 

 and say here it is, take this, and if we do not take it, blame Congress 

 for not putting it through? 



Mr. WooLLEY. I have no knowledge of anyone having such an 

 unfair attitude as that. I am certain that to attribute such a thought 

 to anyone by implication would be doing them quite an injustice. 



Mr. .A.NDRESEN. Do you think that by next Tuesday, Tuesday of 

 next week, you can have this in legislative form, so that the committee 

 will know what the Department is really recommending? 



Mr. WooLLEY. I do not want to commit the Secretary on that for 

 this reason: The Secretary is out of town at the present time. I 

 understand he will be back Tuesday evenmg. We would, of course, 

 want to clear any controversial points with him before it is transmitted 

 to the committee, as I am sure the committee would want us to do, 

 and I think it will probably be about Wednesday or maybe Thursday; 

 I would not want to be too specific, but as I say, we have been doing 

 a great deal of work, diligently trying to reconcile a number of different 

 points. 



Mr. .A.NDRESEN. Let me ask you this question to see if I can get 

 something clear in my mind: Are you trying to work the two programs 

 proposed by the Secretary so they will modify diversified farming? 



Mr. WooLLEY. Yes. 



Mr. Andresen. For instance, here we will say we have many 

 diversified farm products: Where a farmer is producing corn, barley, 

 oats, some of them produce rice and hay; they may have 20 or 30 

 milk cows, and produce hogs. Now how are you going to work that 

 out so that this fellow will have an equitable share of the production? 

 Are you going to limit say the corn and other basic commodities to 

 some 1,800 units, that will give him 1,800 units of production of pork, 

 milk products, poultry, and other items? 



Mr. WooLLEY. There have been many hours of discussion of just 

 how to do that very thing. 



Mr. Andresen. .A.nd you have not come to any conclusion on that? 



Mr. WooLLEY. We have come to a tentative conclusion, but we 

 have not come to a conclusion of just what would be written, and the 

 Sohcitor has already pointed out, and raised some question about the 

 constitutionality of certain things. He thinks that if we are to sug- 

 gest to you that we use a certain base for some of these programs that 

 our regulations will naturally raise a very considerable question of 

 whether the Supreme Court will go along. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Hope. 



Mr. Hope. The thing which disturbs me about the information that 

 Mr. Woolley has given us is this: The program with respect to wheat 

 is such that any change that is made in the basic program, is going to 

 have to be announced within 60 days from now, and as I understand 

 it, the Department has already sent material out to the counties and 

 and is getting information, and outlining a program. 



What I want to know is this: How late can you determine the 

 base for acreage allotments? 



I had understood that the Department is giving consideration to a 

 new base. We have had men here from the wheat area, some of them 

 proposing the use of 3, 5, or 10 year bases and some 1 year, and 

 that is the question that is going to have to be considered here. 



