748 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



I farmed on one farm for several years in Oregon and I produced 

 wheat 1 year in 3. It would be a croo of wheat, a year idle, summer 

 fallow, and wheat. I remember when we first started to set up our 

 county allotments in my county when I was chairman of the county 

 committee. We made a ruling, to start with, that in our county our 

 soil type svould not justify any more than half the land in wheat. 

 Some few fellows, because of circumstances, had more history than 

 that. Maybe if we had a longer period of time, they would have 

 been 50-50 like the other fellows. We immediately said that their 

 usual acreage would be half their cropland. Some other fellows had 

 other rotation practices and grew barley on half their land. Naturally, 

 they had a lower usual wheat acreage. 



I think we are perfectly safe in letting the State committee and the 

 extension service and the BAE men work out the particular instruc- 

 tions they give to the field men on the basis of the broad authority 

 coming from Washington so they will have uniformity in the States. 



Mr. Hope. I am glad to know you feel that way about it. I have 

 talked with the members of our State committee and they tell me the 

 same thing. They say they are going to take care of it. Evidently 

 they have full confidence that they will be able to take care of it that 

 way. 



Mr, Entermille. I would feel much better with the State com- 

 mittee handling a problem like this than any group in Washington 

 handling it. 



Mr. Hope. As a general principal, I woidd also, except that I think 

 they have to have certain standards to go by. 



I have said all I am going to say about it. I hope it works out the 

 way that you think it will and tlie way that the Kansas State commit- 

 tee thinks it will because they insist that is it going to work oat that 

 way, but it seems to me they have quite a job and the county com- 

 mittees have quite a job in making these allotments on that basis. 



They are going to have trouble in doing it. I thought it would be 

 easier for them if there was something a little more definite from 

 Washington as to what was expected from them. On general prin- 

 ciples I am in agreement with what you say as to leaving it to the 

 local committees. 



I want to go into this new bill which the Secretary has sent to the 

 speaker and ask you some questions about marketing quotas and 

 acreage allotments under that legislation. It is found on pages 34 

 and 35. The main thing that I want to know is what is the difference, 

 in eft'ect, between the new language which has been set up by the 

 Secretary and which represents, I assume, the results of your best 

 judgment and thinking, and the old law? 



First, I notice that instead of a 10-year average, you are suggesting 

 a 5-year average and also that you use a little different language as far 

 as adjustments are concerned. Instead of the language in the old law 

 which says that the national acreage allotment for the States shall be 

 apportioned on the basis of the acreage in wheat for the last 10 years 

 plus diverted acreage with adjustments for abnormal trends, you say 

 5 calendar years wdth such adjustments as are deemed necessary for 

 abnormal conditions affecting acreage and for trends in acreage and 

 the acreage allotments previously established for the State and 

 county. 



