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, Executive Secretary to the Subcommittee PART 1 STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE BUDGET FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1956 U.S. Congress. House. HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS. EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RELATED JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman FRED MARSHALL, Minnesota CHARLES B. DEANE, North Carolina WALT HORAN, Washington WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota CHARLES W. VURSELL, Illinois Ross P. POPE, Executive Secretary to the Subcommittee PART 1 STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE BUDGET FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 58682 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1955 521 7165 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas ANTONIO M. FERNANDEZ, New Mexico PRINCE H. PRESTON, JR., Georgia OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota IVOR D. FENTON, Pennsylvania 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 GEORGE Y. HARVEY, Clerk (II) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1955. STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY WITNESSES EZRA TAFT BENSON, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE DON PAARLBERG, ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICUL- CLARENCE MILLER, DIRECTOR, TOBACCO BRANCH, COMMODITY STABILIZATION SERVICE 0. V. WELLS, SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR, AGRICULTURAL MARKETING WALTER BERGER, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, COMMODITY STA BILIZATION SERVICE Mr. WHITTEN. The committee will be in order. Since the hearings on the Commodity Credit Corporation of January 11 and 12 tie right into the overall operations of the Department of Agriculture and will be constantly referred to in these hearings, and since at that time we had the Secretary, the Under Secretary, and others here, I request that those hearings appear as the first part of these hearings. (The hearings referred to, covering pages 2 through 107, are as follows:) (1) |