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that the cotton subcommittee will have to deal with. Like the gentle- 

 man from California says, I am sure the committee will have most 

 sympathetic consideration for all these new areas but who we are 

 going to take the acreage from to give more acreage to a State that has 

 never planted I do not know. 



Mr. White. That is a preposterous assumption, Mr. Chairman. I 

 am speaking of people who have already planted cotton and who have 

 bougnt equipment and put down wells, and so forth, and set their very 

 economic lives up on cotton and wheat and peanuts, not people who 

 come along and make a preposterous proposition like this. 



Mr. Pace. They maintain seriously that the economic welfare of 

 their great State demands that thej- have a respectable acreage. 



Mr. Hill. If the gentleman will yield for a moment, we have to 

 consider tnese people in Nevada because it may be the fault of the 

 Congress that all these great flocks of sheep are being liquidated up to 

 40 percent. Wlio is to blame for that? 



Mr. White. We got fouled up enough in talking about people who 

 deal in cotton. Let us not get off on sheep. 



Mr. Hope. Mr. Chairman, we are confronted with a little different 

 situation right now as far as wheat is concerned than we are with cot- 

 ton in that wheat acreage allotments have to be made very shortly. 

 We are talking here now about what we may want to do in the future. 

 As far as the present situation is concerned, you are proceeding, Mr. 

 Walker, under the existing law and you do not believe, do you, that 

 there is any possible chance of making a change even if we should pass 

 legislation within the next week or two changing the formula? You 

 would not have time to carry it out then, would you, before you would 

 have to announce your acreage allotments? 



Mr. Walker. Just what formula do you speak of? 



Mr. Hope. Any formula. We are talking now about taking care 

 of Colorado or taking care of some other State that may be in distress. 

 In cotton we are talking about taking care of some situations in 

 future years, not this year. But in wheat we are confronted with a 

 timetable. We have to do this immediately. You do not see any 

 possibility that if we passed legislation right now you could change 

 your program in time to take new legislation into account, do you? 



Mr. Walker. That would depend, Mr. Hope, on the nature of the 

 directive from Congress. 



Air. Hope. Supposing we set up a new formula altogether? 



Air. Walker. If that formula involved the getting of new data, it 

 would be impossible. But if that formula or directive would permit 

 the use of material that is immediately available, it could be done. 



Mr. Hope. How soon will you have to have the information in the 

 hands of your county committees as to the county allotments so 

 they can make the farm allotments? 



Mr. Walker. The county allotments should be in the hands of 

 the county committees by July 1. We have less than a month. 



Mr. Hope. Do you mean the county committees will have to make 

 their allotments after that time? 



Mr. Walker. The preliminary work will have been done. 



Mr. Hope. That is on the basis of the present law and the regula- 

 tions. So if anything would be done to change the law as to the 

 way in which you would make the allotments for States or counties 



