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break even this year inasmuch as grains have gone up. The feed as 

 we buy it in the bag has gone up a lot in the hist 6 to 8 weeks. If that 

 continues, it is the opinion of those on the west coast that they will 

 not make a profit at 90 percent of parity. They will not even break 

 even. 



Mr. Granger. As I remember, about 60 percent of the cost of rais- 

 ing turkeys is in the feed; is it not? 



Mr. Johnson. That is right. 



Mr. Granger. Certainly, if corn and everything that goes to make 

 up your feed enjoyed a price support, you would have to have a price 

 support also? 



Mr. Johnson. I believe so. 



Mr. Granger. That is all. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much, Mr. Johnson. 



At this point, I would like to insert in the record a telegram ad- 

 dressed to the clerk of this committee from Mr. Don M. Turnbull, 

 executive secretary, International Baby Chick Association, Kansas 

 City, Mo. 



The substance of it is that he thinks ''it is impossible to administer 

 compensatory payments without submitting to production goals. 

 It would take an armj^ to enforce such controls on 5,000,000 farms 

 now raising poultry." 



There will also be inserted a letter addressed to Congressman 

 Andresen by Norris K. Carnes, general manager, Central Livestock 

 Association, Inc. 



Kansas City, Mo., June 3. 197/9. 

 Mabel Downey, 



Secretary, Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, 



Washington, D. C: 

 Contrary to previous report. Xo one will appear before Pace subcommittee 

 from this association June 7. Our position respect to Brannan plan stated clearly 

 in testimony presented to committee by President Noel Shaver May 18 and is 

 unchanged. Think it impossible to administer compensatory payjnonts without 

 submitting to production goals. Tt v.'ould take an army to enforce such controls 

 on 5,000,000 farms now raising poultry. 



Don M. Turnbull, 

 Executive Secretary. International Baby Chick Associalioji. 



June 2, 1949. 

 Hon. August Andresen, 



House Office Building, Washington, D. C. 



Dear Congressman Andresen: I am extremely sorry that I have found it 

 impossible to appear before the Special Subcommittee of the House Committee 

 on Agriculture and testify on the proposal submitted to said committee by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, which, if enacted into law, would authorize him to carry 

 out the price-support program with respect to certain perishable agricultural 

 commodities, including hogs, by the use of direct production payments in place 

 of loans or purchases. 



It is my candid opinion that the proposed program seeks to do the economically 

 impossible: lower food prices to the consumer and at the same time guarantee 

 higher prices to the producer. I fully realize the popular appeal of such a pro- 

 gram, but I feel that it is imperative that it be carefully and thoughtfully analyzed 

 by all concerned before it is approved. 



In studying this program, these questions come to my mind: 



1. What woidd such a program cost the taxpayers of this country? 



2. Wouldn't this program regiment farmers to a greater degree than ever 

 before? 



