GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 815 



We hear complaints about some high prices to consumers, but these 

 planners never admit the truth about one prize cause for the prices, 

 which are not high, is their miserable handling of two of our major 

 products, viz, animal fats and hides. A kindergarten student should 

 know and industry cannot take care of a price shrinkage of 60.5 

 percent in inedible and 81 percent in edible animal fats out of their 

 profit of a fraction of a cent per poimd. This mishandling adds 

 several cents to every pound of meat consumed, yet the planners 

 would have the taxpayers pay for their own faulty judgment. 



Having experienced the disastrous results from subsidies or live- 

 stock slaughter payments, we certainly plead with utmost sincerity 

 that nothmg even remotely resembling them be undertaken again. 

 There still remains due to our members and other packers millions of 

 dollars imder the so-called price roll-back plan. Scores of firms had 

 to discontinue operations, and in some cases those withholdings of 

 amounts due were because of conditions wholly beyond the control 

 of those entitled to the mone}^. 



We urge you to keep this industry from the army of parasites neces- 

 sary to supervise this program. Let the American farmer alone, and 

 he will adjust operations by sound production methods and marketing 

 practices, and perpetuate the American way for future generations 

 of his family. 



I thank you, gentlemen. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much for j^our statement, Mr. Heine- 

 mann. 



The next witness will be IMr. Harry Donohue, representing the 

 Oil Association of the Triple-A committee from Blanchester, Ohio. 

 Mr. Donohue. 



STATEMENT OF HARRY DONOHUE, BLANCHESTER, OHIO 



Mr. Donohue. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Pace, Mr. Hope, and the other 

 members of the committee, I received a telegram from Congressman 

 Cooley telling me I should have my statement prepared and several 

 copies to pass out. I just did not have the time to do anything like, 

 and, honest, while I was eating breakfast this morning I prepared a 

 few notes that I will tr}^ to follow and not wander too far. 



Now, I am Harry Donohue from Blanchester, Ohio. I am a farmer. 

 Aly whole occupation is farming. I operate a farm of 150 acres. 

 I am a small farmer in Clinton County, which is situated in the 

 southwestern part of Ohio, and which is known as the richest farm 

 part of Ohio. It is what we call the Corn-Hog Belt of Ohio. We 

 produce corn, also wheat and soybeans, grain crops are planted, and 

 we raise stock and hogs, although we feed beef cattle, do quite a bit 

 of dairying, raise chicken, and so forth; but then Clinton County is 

 known as a large hog county. I think the census gives it as the 

 largest county in Ohio. 



Now I will try to follow my notes here and not wander around so 

 much. 



First, I am testifying as to my own thoughts. I am not here in- 

 structed by anybody and what I say I will have to be responsible 

 for myself. I am testifying from conversations with actual, what we 

 call, dirt farmers, with the farmers operating the land, endeavoring to 

 make a living off the land. 



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