COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

HAROLD D. COOLEY, North Carolina, Chairman

WILLIAM S. HILL, Colorado, ex officio member of all subcommittees

CONTENTS

H. R. 10316.

cial corn-producing area during 1958.

A bill to exclude Ottawa County, Mich., from the commer-

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A bill to amend section 114 of the Soil Bank Act_

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A bill to exclude from the commercial corn-producing area

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H. R. 10754.

H. R. 10756.

38 counties in the United States during 1958...

H. R. 10762. A bill to amend section 114 of the Soil Bank Act for purpose

of excluding certain counties in United States from the commercial pro-

ducing area during 1958-

H. R. 10843. A bill to amend section 114 of the Soil Bank Act with

respect to compliance with corn acreage allotments___

Statement of—

Doggett, Howard, Soil Bank Division, Commodity Stabilization

Service; accompanied by Raymond J. Pollock, director, Grain

Division, Commodity Stabilization Service; Claude Coffman, attor-

ney, General Counsel's Office; and Thomas B. Walker, Grain Divi-

sion, United States Department of Agriculture_

Ford, Hon. Gerald R., Jr., a Representative in Congress from the

fifth district in the State of Michigan.

Pollock, Raymond J., Director, Grain Division, Commodity Stabiliza-

tion Service, United States Department of Agriculture; accompanied

by Thomas B. Walker, Chief of Program Analysis Branch, Grain

Division, Commodity Stabilization Service, United States Depart-

ment of Agriculture___

Additional data submitted to the subcommittees by-

Department of Agriculture:

Corn-annual yields and acreage planted to corn, excluding silage,

1948-57, Robeson County, and Dillon County.

Report on H. Res. 477 by Marvin L. McLain, Assistant Secretary,
of February 21, 1958

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1958 commercial corn area (map).

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1958 corn allotment program: Paragraph B test of minor civil-
division data for commercial area determination for counties
not in the 1957 area.

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1958 corn-allotment program-selection of strongest minor civil
division, Horry County, and Dillon County___

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Ford, Hon. Gerald R., Jr.:

Harrington, R. L., General Counsel, Department of Agriculture,
letter of January 21, 1958 - -

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Letter to Hon. Harold D. Cooley, chairman, House Committee
on Agriculture, dated January 29, 1958-

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3.8 million acres signed for winter wheat acreage reserve at pro-

gram close...

1958 soil-bank wheat acreage reserve agreements reported

through deadline, October 4, 1957.

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McMillan, Hon. John L.:

Altman, J. Eugene, Columbia, S. C., letter of December 11, 1957..

Atkinson, John H., Jr., Conway, S. C., letter...

Bethea Coal & Distributing Co., Inc., Dillon, S. C., letter of

January 17, 1958-

Bethea, W. L., Dillon, S. C., telegram of January 13, 1958.
Cottingham, R. D., Dillon, S. C., telegram of January 14, 1958.
Dew, D. M., & Sons, Inc., Latta, S. C., letter of January 13, 1958-
Dillon County Farm Bureau, Dillon, S. C., letter of February 1,
1958.

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Additional data submitted to the subcommittees by-Continued,

McMillan, Hon. John L.-Continued

Hartley, J. C., Dillon, S. C., letter of January 31, 1958.

Latta Milling & Grain Co., Latta, S. C., letter of January 17, 1958-

Lupo, Mrs. Flora M., Dillon, S. C., letter of January 3, 1958..

McDaniel, Alphonso, Hamer, S. C., letter of January 13, 1958--

McLain, Marvin L., Assistant Secretary, Washington, D. C.,

letters of December 11, 1957, and February 5, 1958-

Moody, Curtis, R., Jr., Dillon, S. C., telegram of January 14,
1958-..

Pee Dee Farms Corp., Galivants Ferry, S. C., letter of December
12, 1957

Pineland Grange Community, Latta, S. C., letter of January 13,

1958_

Reaves, Dr. R. L., Latta, S. C., letter of January 13, 1958.

Sessions, Dan E., Dillon, S. C., telegram of January 15, 1958..

Sloan, Paul D., The Dillon Co., Dillon, S. C., letter of January 15,

1958_.

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The Anderson Bank of Dillon, Dillon, S. C., letter of January 15,

1958_.

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