1176 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Secretary Brannan. Our feeling is that if it is put in the law, I 

 would say right now to the committee if we put in an experimental 

 program, we would operate in eggs as long as that was the feasible 

 and practical way of getting the job done for both eggs and chickens. 



Mr. HoEVEN. Then you have changed your position on that since 

 yesterday? 



Secretary Brannan. I did not intend to. 



Mr. HoEVEN. As I recall, in response to a question by Mr. 

 Albert 



Mr. Albert. He changed it right after that. 



Mr. HoEVEN. What I was trying to get at is yesterday you did list 

 chickens as the No. 6 item in your proposed experimental program. 



Secretary Brannan. Yes. 



Mr. Pace. He was listing the six items put in the experimental 

 program, and he listed chickens last. 



Mr. HoEVEN. I wanted to clear that up. 



Secretary Brannan. We were called on to talk about six items, 

 and I put chickens at the very end. 



Mr. Hoeven. That you were going to propose chickens as part of 

 the experimental program? Was not that proposed in your listing 

 of yesterday? 



Secretary Brannan. No. 



Mr. Pace. Let us get that straight for the record. The six com- 

 modities were put in that order by the committee; he did not put 

 them in that order. 



Mr. Hoeven. But in response to a question by Mr. Albert, he 

 listed them as potatoes, hogs, wool, eggs, milk, and chickens in that 

 order. 



Secretary Brannan. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. The point I am trying to make is that the Secretary 

 did not suggest these six; the committee suggested these six com- 

 modities. 



Mr. Hoeven. That is true; but in response to a question by Mr. 

 Albert, the Secretary listed them in the order I indicated. 



Mr. Pace. That is right; he listed the six. 



Secretary Brannan. And, as I remember, the preface to the 

 question was "If you were only to have two or three, how would 

 you list them?" 



Mr. Pace. Are there any further questions on either chickens or 

 eggs? 



If not, we will go to the last item. 



Mr. O'SuLLivAN. I do not want Mr. Murray's remarks to be 

 passed over without making an observation on the matter. I think 

 it is important. 



It is my thought that this barrage of economy mail mentioned by 

 Mr. Murray is not of spontaneous origin but has been instigated by 

 professional whooper-uppers and that we are now experiencing the 

 full impact of Government by propaganda from an entity which is 

 now outside the political portals, shivering with a combination of 

 ''ousters ague and malaria" and longing and striving to get back into 

 the political pilothouse of Government. 



Mr. Murray. Of course, this is the first politics that has been 

 brought into it since we began. 



