Statement of-Continued Page Holman, Charles W., secretary, National Cooperative Milk Producers 167 Hussey, Fr nk W., president,. Maine Potato Growers, Inc., Presque 192 Jones, J. M., secretary, National Wool Growers Association, Salt Lake 228 Kline, Allan B., president, American Farm Bureau Federation, 61 Leavitt, Kent, president, National Association of Soil Conservation 332, 341 Love, Harry W.. executive director, Tobacco Division, Farm Federa- Maloney, C. W., State senator, and president, Stemming District Patton, James G., president, National Farmers' Union, Denver, Colo- Proctor, R. H., assistant executive secretary, Kentucky Farm Bureau, Durg. Edward J., president, E. Regensburg & Sons, and presi- dent, Cigar Manufacturing Association of America, New York, Roose, Joe, Allison, Iowa 438 438 111 424 427 312 373 Rosefield, J. L., president, Rosefield Packing Co., and chairman, legis- 284 Royster, Fred S., president, Bright Belt Warehouse Association, Inc., 405 Rudolph, Paul, manager Eastern Dark-Fired Tobacco Growers Asso- 421 Shaw, R. Flake, executive vice president, North Carolina State Farm 425 Smith, Favor R., president, Empire State Potato Club, and executive 243 111 Taylor, Frank W., secretary-manager, Northwest Horticultural 247 Veal, L. L., manager, Western Dark-Fired Tobacco Growers Associa- 437 Wagenen, Alfred Van, acting managing director, Northeastern Poultry 364 Wells, Leslie T., president, Suffolk County Farm and Home Bureau Wilken, Carl H., economic analyst, Raw Materials National Council, Wells, O. V., Chief, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States 15, 80 187 375 Wilson, J. B., legislative chairman, National Wool Growers Associa- 228 AGRICULTURAL ACT OF 1948 MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1948 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in room 324, Senate Office Building, Senator Arthur Capper, chairman, presiding. Present: Senators Capper, Aiken, Bushfield, Wilson, Young, Kem, Thomas, Ellender, and Lucas. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The committee this morning is starting hearings on Senate bill 2318, which is a bill to provide for a coordinated agricultural program. The bill has been developed by Senator Aiken and half a dozen of our members who have given a great deal of attention to it and I think there is every indication that we have something worth while. A copy of the bill will be placed in the record at this point. (The bill under consideration, S. 2318, is as follows:) [S. 2318, 80th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To provide for a coordinated agricultural program Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the “Agricultural Act of 1948". DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. It is hereby recognized that a sound national economy requires that each segment of the population be maintained as an efficient producer and a constant consumer of goods and services, and it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to provide for a coordinated program, to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture in cooperation with agencies in the several States, and designed (1) to assume an abundant production of all agricultural products necessary for the improved nutrition and clothing of all our people; (2) to develop a means of supporting agricultural income on a flexible basis relative to prices and production so as to foster desirable shifts in agricultural production and aid in stabilizing the national economy; (3) to improve methods of marketing, facilitate distribution, and increase utilization of agricultural commodities in both domestic and foreign markets; (4) to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco, rice, peanuts, and wool to the extent necessary to provide an orderly, adequate, and balanced flow of such commodities in interstate and foreign trade through price support, marketing quotas, diversion to various economic uses, and other means; (5) to assist consumers in obtaining adequate and steady supplies of high-quality farm products at fair and equitable prices; (6) to assist low-income families and school children in maintaining an adequate diet, particularly in periods of underconsumption and unemployment; |