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taken into account. But the thing that is bothering me is how you 

 can be sure that you are going to have something hke uniformity in 

 the different counties and the different States on that matter, and 

 how are you going to be sure that the man who has practiced summer 

 fallowing and who is a good conservation farmer is not going to be 

 put at a disadvantage when these acreage allotments are made? 



You are not doing anything about it here, as I understand. You 

 are leaving it all I'p to the county committee. 



Mr. Walker. First, of course, we provide a procedure to be fol- 

 lowed by all county committees. Then we have in the State a 

 State PMA committee and its field force that supervises the work 

 done by county and community committees. It is only through 

 them that we can absolutely be assured of uniform treatment between 

 counties or uniform treatment between farms within a county. 



Mr. Hope. If you set up something from here in the way of a memo- 

 randum or instructions or regulations that covered that point and if 

 the State committees sent out something covering that point, and then 

 you had field men to go out to the county committees following those 

 regulations, I can see how you would accomplish something along 

 that line. But when you do not have anything come out from Wash- 

 ington or the State offices, what standard does the county committee 

 have to follow that will give us assurance that they will give proper 

 consideration to summer fallow? 



Mr. Walker. I am not sure whether you have memorandum 123, 

 what we call State Office Proceduic, in that folder. 



Mr. Hope. I do not believe I do. 



Mr. Walker. I am sorry your folder was made up before that went 

 out. There is a memorandum 123 that instructs them on checks 

 that are to be made and the authority and responsibility of the State 

 committee and the county committee is prescribed in that memo- 

 randum 123. In that memorandum they are instructed to make 

 very definite checks on the listing sheet of what is being done by the 

 community committee and by the county committee. Then by com- 

 munities tiiey will summarize this on what we call a county summary. 

 Then we will compute certain data to determine if by communities 

 they are being treated in simfia^r manner. 



If one community is lax on what it is doing and another is conserva- 

 tive, it will show up immediately. They are instructed in this 123 

 to follow certain checks and guides that will enable them to find this 

 information. 



Mr. Hope. What standard will they have to go by as to uniformity 

 in making allotments where uniformity is involved? 



Mr. Walker. In summer fallow areas, as I started to state a mo- 

 ment ago, you should alternate between wheat and summer fallow. 

 But you have somebody who has come in latelj^ speaking of these new 

 fellows, and who has been planting fence to fence or grass to grass. 

 The county committee is instructed to immediately put him in line 

 with other regular farmers as a starting point. If that is the proper 

 practice, to be followed, he must be cut down and his usual acreage 

 cannot be more than that of similar farms that are folio whig that 

 practice. 



That is the starting point for the adjustment for this fellow that is 

 continuously planting wheat. By that method they do bring him 



