740 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Mr. Walker. Other information available to local people which 

 indicates trend beyond what a rigid mathematical formula would 

 give you, may be taken into account when final allotments are deter- 

 mined. 



Mr. Hope. In a State like Colorado under those circumstances, 

 because there has been a very strong trend in certain counties, the 

 State committee would have power to take that into consideration 

 in dividing the State allotment up between the counties; is that 

 correct? 



Mr. Walker. That is correct, within limitations. 



Mr. Hill. Mr. Hope, a question right there. What will influence 

 the local county group? What is their position as to what the 

 county cut shall be? 



Mr. Walker. They make recommendations. They submit infor- 

 mation on the basis of local data to the State committee prior to and 

 during the time that they are considering the adjustments between 

 counties. 



Mr. Hill. I talked to one of the wheat men in Kiowa County and 

 they are fairly reasonable. They feel they are going to be cut and 

 after all, maybe a cut is not only necessary, but absolutely essential if 

 they are going to stay in the wheat btisiness. You might have some- 

 thing there by using the county committee to influence these outside 

 wheat growers that come into there to follow the suggestion of the 

 county and the State. 



Mr. Entermille. This adjustment between counties in the State 

 is not new. In the old days I had a lot of experience in working with 

 the committees in the Western States. Understand that after the 

 State has been computed on the national formula, that State figure is 

 the maximum for the State. We sometimes used to spend with the 

 State statistician and the BAE statisticians and others that worked 

 on those figures a couple of days studying each particular county and 

 the recommendations from the counties as to whether the ten-plus- 

 tliree trend actually reflected what had taken place. Maybe they had 

 gone too far in one county and you could take some of that and put it 

 in a county that was in more trouble. 



I remember in Colorado, for instance, during the Dust Bowl days 

 when in one county any kind of a formula gave them a much bigger 

 allotment than they would use. Some of that allotment was moved 

 into other counties that had more need for it. But the State figure 

 stayed the same. The actual practice in the county committee is, 

 after they have contacted the farmers they list all this information 

 from the farmers on a sheet and they set up what would be a normal 

 acreage for that farm. By normal, I mean the old wheat farmer would 

 have his full acreage listed on the sheet. The new wheat farmer would 

 be adjusted down because of lack of history, lack of assurance that 

 that soil was going to continue to produce. Those counties like 

 Kiowa County know that some of that land could easily go back to the 

 Dust Bowl. They figure that all out and set up this usual acreage for 

 each farm, having in mind a rough idea of the allotment they are 

 going to get. 



When they finally get through with the acreage for each farm, they 

 get their allotment and that is a flat cut. It is going to be a terrific 

 job to be sure that you have protected these people. 



