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Which simply adds up to this, that you take the 7-year planted 

 acreage, and the 7-year goals, that is, the averages which gives you a 

 simple average, and they are given equal weight in arriving at and 

 making deductions according to the national demand. 



Fourth. As an implement to curtail overplanting, we recommend 

 the use of compensating payments to eligible producers as a method 

 of price support. 



Mr. Pace. Does that conclude your statement? 



Mr. Wescott. Yes, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much. 



Mr. PoAGE. I do not understand that formula any better than the 

 other one. 



Mr. Pace. I think we had better hear from the other witnesses 

 before we get into discussion of the formula. 



Mr. PoAGE. Very well. 



STATEMENT OF WILLIAM B. DURYEE, CHAIRMAN, STATE POTATO 

 INDUSTRY COMMITTEE, ALLENTOWN, N, J. 



Mr. Pace. W^e will hear next from Mr. Duryee. Will you give 

 your full name and the capacity in which you appear. Mr. Duryee. 



Mr. Duryee. Mr. Chairman, my name is William B. Duryee, of 

 Allentown, N. J. I am a potato grower, I am chairman of the State 

 Potato Industry Committee and treasurer of the National Potato 

 Council. I have prepared a statement which has been indorsed b}^ 

 our potato growers in New Jersey and that statement substantiates 

 the presentation just made here by Mr. Wescott. 



We are an old potato-growing State. I have figures running back 

 to 1866 when we were a larger producing State than we are now. 

 That has been a long time. And we have a very important group 

 with us. 



We are very anxious that your committee, Mr. Chairman, consider 

 the presentation just made and those that will be made by the na- 

 tional potato organization, because we, as potato growers, feel that 

 we have great responsibility in the effort to bring some order out of 

 this chaotic potato situation. 



I would like to have the opportunity of filing with the committee a 

 statement of our philosophy, if we might call it that, of this potato 

 problem, in case the committee would like to have it here. 



Mr. Pace. You may leave it with the clerk, and it will be made a 

 part of the record. 



Mr. Duryee. I have some copies here for the record and some 

 additional copies for your use. 



Mr. Pace. Just give it to the clerk, and thank you very much. 



(The statement referred to follows:) 



Statement of the Potato Indcstry Committee of the New Jersey State 

 Potato Association, Trenton, N. J. 



Favored by the natural advantages of nearness to consuming centers, produc- 

 tive soil, efficient production and marketing methods. New Jersey has maintained 

 for more than 70 years the position of one of the leading potato sections in the 

 United States. Confronted with problems caused by increasing production per 

 acre and the development of new potato areas in the country, the potato industry 

 of the State is adjusting its operations to face new conditions. Approaching the 



