1230 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Mr. Pace. In order that it might become part of the record, I 

 offer for the hearing heretofore held on Irish potatoes, a letter dated 

 May 27, 1949, signed by the representatives of the potato growers of 

 the Nation setting forth their recommendations. That will be in- 

 serted at the conclusion of the potato hearing in order that it may 

 become a part of the printed record. It will be submitted to the sub- 

 committee at the appropriate time. 



Mr. Andresen. Mr. Chairman, may I ask unanimous consent 

 that immediately following the testimony on hogs before the com- 

 mittee a letter be included from Mr. Norris K. Carnes, the manager 

 of the Central Cooperative Association, Livestock Selling Agency of 

 South St. Paul, Minn. 



Mr. Pace. The gentleman means the testimony on hogs yesterday?. 



Mr. Andresen. Yes. 



Mr. Pace. Without objection that will be inserted in yesterday's 

 hearings following the testimony on hogs. 



At this time it is the pleasure of the committee to have a brief 

 statement from Mr. Charles W. Holman, secretary of the National 

 Cooperative Milk Producers Federation. Mr. Holman has a pre- 

 pared statement which wUl be distributed among the members. 



STATEMENT OF CHARLES W. HOLMAN, SECRETARY, NATIONAL 

 COOPERATIVE MILK PRODUCERS FEDERATION 



Mr. Holman. Mr. Chairman, I will ask the permission of the com- 

 mittee to file for the record my formal statement and then for just a 

 few minutes I will address the committee informally. 



Mr. Pace. Without objection, your complete statement will be 

 filed at the point in the record where you conclude your present testi- 

 mony. 



Mr. Holman. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, 

 this is the third appearance on this general problem that I have made 

 before this committee this session. Today I want to discuss only the 

 1950 situation and the minimum requirements to carry on in 1950, 

 or, to put it another way, to the end of the 1950 season. 



Mr. Andresen. Mr. Chairman, may I suggest to Mr. Holman that 

 as long as this is a hearing that involves milk and dauy products with 

 reference to a trial run in making compensatory payments to pro- 

 ducers, I think I would like to have you address the committee on 

 that subject. 



Mr. Holman. Thatismy intention, sir. 



Mr. Andresen. You were saying something about 1950. 



Mr. Holman. The application of the problem to 1950 and also 

 1949, if the committee please. 



In approaching it, we do not want to be in the position of a head-on 

 collision with the Secretary over a contrast of ideologies with reference 

 to handling the problem in dairying but rather what is the best and 

 the cheapest method that the committee could adopt and still preserve 

 as much as possible of the elements of freedom of commerce and free- 

 dom of action and freedom of opportunity for all elements of the dairy 

 industry and particularly the dairy farmers whom I directly represent. 



Along with the same development of a technique for taking care of 

 the so-called basic crops which began with the first Agricultural Ad- 

 justment Act in 1933, there came about a similar development of a 



