TESTIMONY OF.PEODUCEE GKOUPS AND MEMBERS OF 



CONGEESS 



TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1949 



House of Representatives, 

 Special Subcommittee of the, 



Committee on Agriculture, 



Washington, D. C. 

 The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., Hon. Stephen Pace (chau-man) 

 presiding. 



Mr. Pace. Gentlemen, the committee will come to order. 

 It is the pleasure of the committee this morning to hear from 

 representatives of the milk and milk-products producers. There have 

 been listed with the Chair five witnesses, all of whom will want to be 

 heard, I am sure, and the committee will certainly want to hear from 

 them. 



As we all know, the House will resume consideration of labor legis- 

 lation this morning; therefore, as far as possible, the Chair would like 

 to complete all five witnesses during the morning. 



It is our pleasure to hear first a gentleman who frequently appears 

 before the committee and always contributes to the solution of its 

 problems, Mr. Charles W. Holman, secretary of the National Cooper- 

 ative Milk Producers Federation. 



STATEMENT OF CHARLES W. HOLMAN, SECRETARY, NATIONAL 

 COOPERATIVE MILK PRODUCERS FEDERATION, ACCOMPANIED 

 BY OTIE M. REED, CONSULTANT ECONOMIST 



Mr. Holman. Mr. Chairman, I would like also to qualify as a joint 

 witness with me this morning Mr. Otie M. Reed, our consultant 

 economist, who some of you may recall for some years was Chief of 

 the Dairy Branch of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 and has some specialized knowledge that the committee might be able 

 to utilize. 



Mr. Pace. We are delighted you brought Mr. Reed along. 



You may proceed, Mr. Holman. 



Mr. Holman. With the permission of the committee, I will ask to 

 be included in the record but will not read the usual qualifying para- 

 graphs, which I have read several times to this body. 



At the outset, I would like to say that last night we finished a 

 computation based upon dairy prices for the first quarter of 1949 

 which would indicate that there will be at least a minimum loss in 

 dairy-farm income for this year over last year of approximately 

 $612,000,000. That presents a problem to which we gave consider- 



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