DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE H.S. Congress. House. HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS. EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RELATED JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman FRED MARSHALL, Minnesota CHARLES B. DEANE, North Carolina WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota Ross P. POPE, Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee PART 4 STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY APPLICATION OF ATOMIC ENERGY IN RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PROGRAM AGRICULTURE RESEARCH SERVICE (AMENDMENTS TO THE BUDGET) SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM SERVICE 72013 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1956 521 .2165 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas ANTONIO M. FERNANDEZ, New Mexico OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota IVOR D. FENTON, Pennsylvania JOHN PHILLIPS, California ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Kansas FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York EARL WILSON, Indiana GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin BENJAMIN F. JAMES, Pennsylvania GERALD R. FORD, JR., Michigan EDWARD T. MILLER, Maryland KENNETH SPRANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director (II) R.VS. 24 Jy 56 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1957 MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1956. STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY WITNESSES HON. EZRA TAFT BENSON, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE R. L. FARRINGTON, GENERAL COUNSEL, DEPARTMENT OF AGRI- DON PAARLBERG, ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE Mr. WHITTEN. The committee will come to order. Mr. Secretary, this makes the fourth year that you have appeared before our subcommittee to present your program for American agriculture, together with your justification for funds which you recommend for the operation of the Department. COMPARISON OF FARM PRICES AND COSTS IN 1952 AND 1955 At the time you first appeared before this committee as Secretary of Agriculture, February 1953, you indicated that farm prices and income were on the way up because of the confidence the American farmers had in President Eisenhower and your farm views. I told you then that, in my opinion, flexible parity meant lower prices and would seriously hurt the American farmer. Subsequent events, unfortunately, seem to indicate that I was right, for today the comparison is as follows: I have reviewed the tables of farm prices you placed in the record at that time, February 1953. In the meantime you have had the law Pt. 4 986 20 |