GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 927 



STATEMENT OF HON. W. KINGSLAND MACY, A REPRESENTATIVE 

 IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK 



Mr. Pace. I see back in the room the distinguished Representative 

 from the State of New York, Hon. Kingsland Macy. Mr. Macy, the 

 committee will be glad to hear you at this time. 



Mr. Macy. Mr. Chairman and distinguished members of the com- 

 miittee: I do not think I will attempt to go into the technical phases 

 of the problem because I do not know anything about them. But I 

 do happen to live in New York State, that part of the agricultural 

 area which I understand produces approximately half of the potatoes. 

 It is a natural place for potatoes to grow, and the farmers who are 

 engaged in producing potatoes have a fine representative group here 

 to present to the committee their views and suggestions. I think it 

 is very fitting that you have undertaken to make the approach on the 

 over-all basis. 



In accordance with the requirements of the war emergency our 

 growers responded by increasing the acreage in potatoes, and I know 

 other States did that also. Now the question is how to resolve the 

 difficulty, promote benefits, and i-emove injustices, and that is what 

 Government should do, and that is what I cannot answer; I just want 

 at this time to say that I am entirely in agreement with the answer 

 that our people would suggest, and I know they will want to go alon^- 

 with anything that is intelligent and is good for the country. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much, Congressman Macy. 



Mr. Macy. Thank you. 



STATEMENT OF HON. GRAHAM A. HARDEN, A REPRESENTATIVE 

 IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA 



Mr. Pace. Last, but by no means least, we will hear from the 

 distinguished gentleman from North Carolina, Congressman Barden. 



Mr. Barden. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I 

 greatly appreciate your giving the time to the mterested Members and 

 to the potato growers who have assembled here. I think they are very 

 fortunate in having a man whom we usually refer to as the agricultural 

 Congressman preside over this kind of a meeting. 



The potato industry is of considerable importance in my State, and 

 especially in my district; and Mr. Bonner's district and my district 

 probably produce 90 percent of the potatoes, or better, that are grown 

 in North Carolina. 



Mr. Chairman, this controversy has just broke before the Agricul- 

 ture Committee. For years we have been trying to fight it out, and 

 when I say fight it out I mean bringing it before you, because this is 

 the first time this real problem has been presented to the Agriculture 

 Committee with a suggested solution from the growers themselves. 

 It has been a rather serious problem with the potato growers for some 

 several years. 



In the Department of Agriculture they worked out a formula one 

 year, and the next year they worked out another formula, and the 

 next year another formula and it was getting progressively worse each 

 time, and the last formula, and the one before that, if we could dignify 

 them by calling them formulas, produced more confusion and I am 



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