GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 719 



Mr. Pace. But under the suggestion I made, you would strike a 

 happy medium there. 



Mr. Brown. That is my suggestion. Take the 3-year and the 

 3-year period studied out, as we have looked over the charts here — 

 these figures, of course, are for discussion onl}', but it does draw a 

 a nice comparison here — I think you gentlemen all have this chart 

 that was prepared for your mformation — and the 3-year average 



Mr. Pace. What 3-year average? 



Mr. Brown. 1946, 1947, and 1948 — of all States comes the nearest 

 to fitting the picture. 



Mr. Pace. Well, you would not say North Dakota would ever 

 agree to that, would you? 



Mr. Brown. It might not; but it w^ould give North Dakota a cut. 

 It is true there is no way to cut every State 20 percent on an acreage 

 basis, if it took 20 percent to arrive at our reduction in acreage. 



Mr. Hope. You mean there is no 3-year period we can take that 

 would result in that kmd of cut? 



Air. Brown. That is right. 



Mr. Hope. Some States would be cut 30 percent and some like 

 North Dakota would not be cut any, and it operates to affect other 

 States differently, but none of them would get exactly that cut. 



Air. Brown. And I would submit that you would have to consider 

 those figures; and further that there should be an interpretation or 

 regulation that would set up a broader base, if you are going to have a 

 program and the farmers are ready to seed. 



Air. Pace. You say that your company has some 280,000 bushels 

 of wheat now? 



Air. Hope. Acres, 



Air. Brown. Yes. 



Air. Pace. How much did you have for 1948? 



Air. Brown. We have always followed summer fallowing by our 

 companj^; half the land out every other year. We have tried to have 

 100,000 acres in wheat every year. But as I say, that is divided 

 between about 700 tenants, who have a three-fourths interest in it. 

 Our one-fourth interest — and of course as commercial producers we 

 should be cut out according to some suggestions of that one-fourth — 

 but out of the income from that one-fourth, 92 percent goes to the 

 Government in the form of taxes. 



Mr. Pace. How much? 



Air. Brown. Ninety-two percent. 



Air. Pace. Maybe you should have been more lenient with the 

 tenants. You mean to say that land is the only thing you provide 

 the tenants? 



Air. Brown. We furnish the land, supervision; and in hard times 

 like 1937 we furnished the seed, gas and oil. 



Air. Pace. I mean right now, you are furnishing just the land? 



Air. Brown. Just the land. 



Air. Pace. And you get one fourth of the wheat? 



Air. Brown. One-fourth, yes. 



Air. Hope. And let me say they are more liberal than many others 

 where the tenant only gets two-thirds. 



Air. Pace. And in addition your company pays 92 percent to the 

 Government in taxes? 



