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We desire to use the helping hand of Government as little as possible. 

 We think it appropriate at this time to support existing legislation 

 with proper amendment, and to give it a fair test. 



I call the attention of the committee to two tables which I would 

 ask to be filed as part of my statement, in which these calculations on 

 the different methods are very simply produced. 



Mr. Pace. Without objection, the tables will go in at this point in 

 the record. 



Air. HoLMAN. That concludes my direct statement. 



(The tables above referred to are as follows:) 



Table 1. — A comparison of parity prices for milk sold wholesale from farms, secured 

 by several methods of computing parity 



PARITY PRICE, FEBRUARY 1949 



Per 

 hundred- 

 Method of computing parity: weight 



(a) Parity as computed under existing law $3. 92 



(6) Parity as computed under existing law, plus farm wage rates 4. 14 



(c) Modernized paritv computed pursuant to title II of the Agricul- 



tural Act of 1948 4. 06 



(d) Modernized parity, plus farm wage rates 4. 30 



(e) Modernized parity, including producer payments from 1943-46 but 



excluding farm wage rates 4. 26 



(/) Modernized parity, including producer payments from 1943-46, 



and farm wage rates 4. 51 



Source: Computed from data published by the BAE, USDA. 



Table 2. — Summary of manufacturing milk price-support levels under different 

 methods of computing parity, February 1949 



Method of computation: 



1. Computed pursuant to title I of the act of 1948, no allowance for 



farm wages $3. 12 



2. Computed pursuant to title I of the act of 1948, with allowance for 



farm wages 3. 30 



3. Computed pursuant to title II of the act of 1948, no allowance for 



farm wages or producer payments 3. 23 



4. Computed pursuant to title II of the act of 1948, with no allowance 



for farm wages and allowance for producer payments 3. 29 



5. Computed pursuant to title II of the act of 1948, with allowance for 



farm wages and no allowance for producer payments 3. 42 



6. Computed pursuant to title II of the act of 1948, with allowance for 



farm wages and producer payments .3. 59 



Mr. Pace. We will hear next Mr. W. A. Gordon, secretary of the 

 National Creameries Association. 



STATEMENT OF W. A. GORDON, ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL 

 CREAMERIES ASSOCIATION, ST. PAUL, MINN. 



Mr. Gordon. My name is W. A. Gordon. I am editor of Dairy 

 Record, St. Paul, Minn., but I am appearing here today on behalf of 

 the National Creameries Association, an organization whose member- 

 ship consists of nearly 900 creameries, 85 percent of them farmer- 

 owned cooperatives, representing some 300,000 dairy farmers. 



Mr. Granger. What is a creamery? 



Mr. Gordon. A creamery, in most language, is a butter factory. 



Mr. Holman has presented in considerable detail the need of a 

 parity program for milk, but I would like to elaborate upon that 

 phase of a milk program which is of particular concern to the producers 



