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toes, putting it in a form that I can understand for 1942, 1943, 1944, 

 and on down to 1948? I want to know your goal. Can you do that 

 for us? 



Secretary Brannan. We can do that. 



Mr. Hill. Then follow that with the production of those years. 



Secretary Brannan. We can do that. 



Mr. Hill. And, further over to the right, the loss per year. Can 

 you do that? 



Secretary Brannan. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Hill. That will answer all my questions with one additional. 



(The information referred to is as foUows:) 



Potatoes: Goal and actual acreage, yield, production, and surplus purchases 1943 to 

 1948 and preliminary indications for 1949 



1 Includes 13.8 million dollars recovered under section 11 (e) of Public Laws 389 and 393, 80th Cong. 



2 Preliminary as of this date. 



3 Based on preliminary indications that 1949 planted acreage will be at or close to goal acreage. 

 ♦ Estimated minimum. 



' Estimated maximum. 



« The estimated budgeted net loss for the 1949 program is approximately $70,000,000. 



Mr. Hill. If my memory is correct, practically every one of those 

 years the Department recommended more acres in potatoes than the 

 farmers planted in the United States. Is that true or false? Answ^er 

 "Yes" or ''No." 



Secretary Brannan. That will show from the table. 



Mr. Hill. It certainly w-ill. It will show^ that the farmers did not 

 produce the acreage the Department recommended. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Hoeven. 



Mr. Hoeven. Mr. Secretary, do I understand you as recommending 

 that Irish potatoes be a part of the experimental program? 



Secretary Brannan. Yes, sir. I think we must revise the Irish- 

 potato program if we intend to save the price-support program for 

 the American farmer. 



Mr. Hope. But not this year, you say. 



Secretary Brannan. Not for the crop w^hich is in the process of 

 being marketed; that is right. 



Mr. Hill. Leave it at 60 percent this year. 



Secretary Brannan. Not disturb title I of the present legislation. 



Mr. Hill. You also feel that this 60 percent working this year will 

 have an effect on the number of acres that the farmers plant to potatoes 

 in 1950 providing you do not recommend too many acres in potatoes. 



Secretary Brannan. No; I do not think it will have any effect. 



