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H. R. 6288. A bill to increase the carryover allowance for peanuts...

H. R. 6565. A bill to amend the peanut marketing quota provisions of

the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other

purposes..

H. R. 6570. A bill to amend the peanut marketing quota provisions of

the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other

purposes.

H. R. 6764. A bill to amend the act of June 24, 1936, as amended (relating
to the collection and publication of peanut statistics), to delete the
requirements for reports from persons owning or operating peanut
picking or threshing machines, and for other purposes..

Statement of-

Baker, John A., coordinator, legislative services, National Farmers

Union.

Cramer, Hon. William C., a Representative in Congress from the

State of Florida

Forrester, Hon. E. L., a Representative in Congress from the State of

Georgia.

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Grizzard, L. A., chairman, peanut committee, Virginia Farm Bureau

Federation..

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Hubbard, M. A., executive secretary, Virginia Farm Bureau Federa-
tion_.

Little, W. E., representative of the North Carolina Farm Bureau___

Merrill, James W., Chief, Production Program Branch, and J. E.

Thigpen, Director, Oils and Peanut Division, Commodity Stabiliza-

tion Service, United States Department of Agriculture

Miller, Clarence, Associate Administrator, Commodity Stabilization

Service, accompanied by Almon T. Mace, Chief, Program Analysis

Branch, Oils and Peanut Division, Commodity Stabilization Service,

United States Department of Agriculture, and Wingate Underhill,

Assistant to Deputy Administrator for Price Support, and Robert

Reed, Deputy Director, Oils and Peanut Division, Commodity

Stabilization Service

Miller, Clarence L., Associate Administrator, Commodity Stabilization

Service, United States Department of Agriculture, and J. E.

Thigpen, Director, Oils and Peanut Division, Commodity Stabiliza-

tion Service, United States Department of Agriculture.

Miller, Clarence L., Associate Administrator, Commodity Stabiliza-

tion Service, accompanied by J. E. Thigpen, Director, Oils and

Peanut Division, William Shofner, Deputy Director, Price Division,

and Howard Pickard, Office of the General Counsel.

Newell, Sterling R., Director, Agriculture Estimates Division, Agri-
cultural Marketing Service; accompanied by C. E. Burkhead, Chief,
Field Crops Branch, and George D. Harrell, head, Specialty Crops
Section, Department of Agriculture..

Rawlings, William V., executive secretary, Association of Virginia
Peanut & Hog Growers..

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Sugg, Joe S., executive secretary, North Carolina Peanut Growers
Association, Inc. -

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Thigpen, J. E., Director, Oils and Peanut Division, Commodity
Stabilization Service, Department of Agriculture__

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Turner, J. F., chairman, North Carolina Farm Bureau Peanut Com-
mittee.

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Vance, John B., president, Virginia Farmers Union

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Wingate, H. L., president, Georgia Farm Bureau Federation.

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Hillsborough County Farm Bureau, Plant City, Fla., telegram of Page

June 5, 1957_

Department of Agriculture:

Report on H. R. 6570 by Hon. True D. Morse, Acting Secretary,

dated May 29, 1957---

Thigpen, J. E.:

Chart 2.

Chart 1. Consumption of edible peanuts in commercial products_

Use of edible peanuts in commercial products by types.

Types of peanuts used in peanut butter..

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Chart 3.

Chart 4.

Types of peanuts used salted_

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Chart 9.

Chart 10.

Runner shelled edible peanut uses..

Production and diversions all types..

Chart 11.

ucts

Peanut prices, consumer prices, and tree nut prices_ - -

Per capita consumption of peanuts and peanut prod-

Chart 12. Production and marketing quotas -

Chart 13. Peanut acreage allotment and acres picked and

threshed.

Chart 14. Peanut farmer prices compared with foreign prices-

Chart 15. Grower prices and Commodity Credit Corporation

diversion sales prices_-.

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