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Mr. PiCKELL. I ran only speak for my people and tell you that 

 that is precisely what they want. 



Mr. Granger. That would be a very easy thing to settle by just 

 striking that out. Then we would not have any difficulty about it. 



Mr. Murray. Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Murray. 



Mr. Murray. The beef people are not in it now so it is just the 

 rest of the livestocK that would be out from under it. 



This plan will really not put our cheese fellows out of business 

 because the longer it is stored the better it gets. 



Mr. PicKELL. I do not know anything about cheese. 



Mr. Pace. We will be delighted to hear at this time from Mr. LesHe 

 S. Hubbard, president of the National Poultry Producers Association 

 of Lancaster, Pa. Mr. Hubbard, do you have a prepared statement? 



Mr. Hubbard. Yes. We have not had time to process them. 

 I will see that copies come to Mr. Parker. 



Mr. Pace. I will see that the other members of the committee get 

 copies of them. 



STATEMENT OF LESLIE S. HUBBARD, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL 

 POULTRY PRODUCERS FEDERATION, LANCASTER, PA. 



Mr. Hubbard. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, the 

 National Poultry Producers Federation is glad this committee has 

 invited it to appear before it again. The federation and each of its 

 member organizations has been quite concerned about our national 

 farm program and a number of meetings have been held by each 

 organization and by the federation itself in an effort to arrive at a 

 policy that can be subscribed to by the whole federation. 



The immediate question before this committee is. Does the poultry 

 industry believe that egg and poultry prices should be supported by 

 production payments? We in the federation have give this question a 

 great deal of thought and have come to the conclusion that supporting 

 prices by means of making production payments is not a sound or 

 wise method. 



There are several reasons for our belief. In the first place, there 

 are nearly 5,000,000 farmers who raise chickens and turkeys. This 

 is probably a larger number of producers than there are in any other 

 agricultural industry. The magnitude of the administrative task of 

 making payments to each producer would be enormous. 



Several well-informed people have stated that four payments a year 

 would be the minimum needed. This means probably more than 

 16,000,000 checks a year to be issued. 



Secondly, because of the great number of ways in which eggs and 

 chickens are sold, a large body for administrative procedure would be 

 necessary. A great many farmers sell eggs to local stores, hatcheries, 

 and housewives. A person of even dull imagination can visualize 

 the tremendous administrative staff that would be needed to properly 

 carry out a production payment program for the poultry industry. 



Our third objective is a very serious one. There are values of 

 greater importance to our national welfare than promises of economic 

 security. Direct production payments make opportunities for easily 

 tempted individuals to prepare to exaggerate their records of produc- 



