GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 751 



sorghums. I know that speaKing as one of those west Texas farmers 

 I think so much more of the county average system on my cotton 

 that I would much rather put up with any irritation that might come 

 between the wheat and the cotton than to have you take away from 

 me the only thing that has ever stabihzed our cotton production. 

 We had nothing but trouble down there until you got away from that 

 individual historical base. 



Air. WooLLEY. It was the best judgment of all our people collec- 

 tively. There were many differences of opinion but we have tried 

 to recon?ile them. We have tried to make the thing consistent 

 insofar as possible. 



Mr. PoAGE. Do not do that to taKe care of that farmer in west 

 Texas who is growing both cotton and wheat, because I am one of 

 them. Do not do that to take care of me because I do not want 

 that done to take care of me. 



Mr. WooLLEY. There are many other values in having consistency 

 between them. We beheve tliat the more people that understand 

 these things, the better administration will result all the way down 

 the line. 



Our Solicitor himself says that it has just about gotten to the point 

 now where that if you amend it any further the provisions will become 

 so complicated that he cannot follow it. He is going to have to call 

 in somebody from Philadelphia. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Woolley, I think the most confusing thing is using 

 one series of years for the State allotment and the county allotment 

 and then an entirely different series of years for the farm allotment. 

 I think it is the most unfair and the most confusing situation or 

 system. You take 5 years for the State allotment and the county 

 allotment. They are the 5 years previous to the year in which the 

 allotment is determined. When you get down to the farm you use 

 3 years. 



In the first case, it is 5 years back of the year in which it is done. 

 When you get to the farmer, it is 3 years, including the year in which 

 it is done. Therefore, you have given the county and the State allot- 

 ment on 5 years and you make the farm allotment on two of those years 

 plus another. This year you had a peanut acreage allotment under 

 that system. You did not include your 1948 crop in the State and 

 county allotments. You did include the 1948 crop in the farm allot- 

 ment. I do not know anything that has caused as much unhappiness 

 as that one thing. Why can you not use the same years for your farm 

 allotment as you use for the county allotment? 



Mr. Woolley. The main basis for that is that you want to use the 

 most recent history you can for the farm and the current year is 

 available at the farm level but the current year is not available on a 

 county basis. Therefore, the only thing you can do is use the prior 

 years. You cannot use the current year because you do not have it. 



But you do have it at the farm level and farmers prefer to use the 

 most recent history as possible for their allotments. That is the 

 major explanation for the difference between the two. 



Mr. Bagwell. Air. Hope, I would like to say further that these 

 standards that are in here for establishing allotments at the farm level 

 are substantially the standards that are in the tobacco marketing 

 quota provisions. The only difference is, I believe, that we specifically 

 provide here that we can take previous farm allotments into account. 



