(The above enclosures are on file with the committee.)

Hon. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY,

DES MOINES, Iowa, October 28, 1955..

Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SENATOR HUMPHREY: I listened with deep interest to the witnesses at the hearing before your august body in Des Moines, Iowa, October 26.

It is my feeling that one very important subject was not mentioned during the hearing. If a new act is passed, I believe it should allow a producer to seal only 50 percent of his production of any one commodity.

For the past several years many corn raisers, we know, have planted their corn acreage for the express purpose of selling it to the Government for the reason that the selling price was higher than the local market price. I have talked with many farmers and some local elevator men and they all agree that any producer should take the responsibility of marketing at least one-half of his production.

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I am confident that a new farm act will be passed in the next session. any time, you would like to secure additional information from Iowa, please feel free to contact this office.

Yours very truly,

LOYD VAN PATTEN, Assistant Secretary, Iowa Department of Agriculture.

STATEMENT FILED BY FAY E. WILCOX, PRESIDENT, T. I. P., RURAL ELECTIRC COOPERATIVE, TAMA, IOWA, AND J. T. MCGARRY, SECRETARY-TREASURER, VICTOR, IOWA

On October 14, 1955, at our regular board meeting, we the undersigned were authorized to gather data and attend your hearing at Des Moines, Iowa, October 26, 1955. Our cooperative represents a membership of 4,000 farm families in the central part of Iowa. We have contacted a reasonable cross section of our membership and found that their desires are for a farm program of 100 percent of parity plus a margin of profit for their labor.

Since it is a common practice for the farmers as a whole to use commercial fertilizers, it is our personal opinion that the Government should develop the Hells Canyon Dam.

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