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mittees, using all the authority they had, tried to keep some of that 

 land from going into cultivation. They did not have the tools that 

 were necessary to keep it from going in. 



Mr. Hill. Kiowa County is not in my district, but I have one 

 almost as bad. Let me ask you this: Is it not a fact that these farmers 

 w^ho come into my particular section of the State to grow wheat are 

 experienced wheat growers from other States? You check and you 

 will see I am right. 



Mr. WooLLEY. In our meeting with the various States in the wheat 

 country, the people in Colorado complained about farmers from 

 Kansas and Nebraska coming to Colorado, but Wyoming and Mon- 

 tana complained about them going from Colorado to Wyoming and 

 Montana. 



Mr. Hill. I think both of them would be correct. Let us hope you 

 carry on this curtailment of wheat acreage if you think we have to 

 have it. The cotton people recommended to us that they cut not over 

 5 percent off the acreage of any cotton area in a year and not over 

 15 over 3 years. You might cut Kiowa County 25 percent if they 

 deserved it and then come down 10 percent next year which would be 

 much more reasonable than coming down 55 percent at one time. 



In other words, let us kill them by degrees, not by one knock-out 

 drop. 



Mr. White. Will the gentleman yield? 

 Mr. Hill. I am finished. 



Mr. White. I am in sympathy with the gentleman's position, being 

 in a similar position in cotton. I am just wondering if we are not 

 criticizing the wrong people. It seems to me the Congress is the one 

 to be criticized. 



Mr. Hill. You are just a new member of Congress. You will find 

 you have plenty of criticism without taking on any for j^ourself. Do 

 not worry about that. 



Mr. White. I will say that I am speaking now of the laws they 

 have to go on. 



Mr. Hill. There are too many laws already. As Mr. Murray says, 

 they do not even follow the laws on the statute books. 



Mr. White. Oklahoma is suffering in peanuts, Colorado is suffering 

 in wheat, California and thi'ee other States are suffering in cotton on 

 account of these extreme cuts in a particular area, and a comparatively 

 small area. It seems to me that some provision should be made in the 

 law to give relief to all of those small areas to the point that they will 

 not be given these catastrophic cuts and let the general area suiTer to 

 a comparatively minor degree to make up for that difference in acre- 

 age, thereby bringing about a situation which provides a relief similar 

 to our crop insurance. We have insurance against the forces of na- 

 ture, but we have no insurance against a legal catastrophe which we 

 have run into in three crops. 



Mr. Pace. I will later present this to the subcommittee formally. 

 We have a new request now in that connection supported by the dis- 

 tinguished representative from Nevada. Numerous telegrams have 

 been received this morning. They say dm-ing the last few years they 

 have built up a cotton acreage in Nevada of 1,200 acres. They are 

 now requesting and respectfully demanding that they be given a mini- 

 mum allotment of 5,000 acres for Nevada, although they have never 

 planted up until now over 1,200 acres. That is one of the problems 



