CONTENTS Statement of Aldo, Lee, president, Connecticut Vegetable Growers' Association, Althouse, Clarence R., vice president, Eastern Farmers Union, and Barton, William, Freehold, N. J.. 3255 Baruch, Bernard M., New York, N. Y. 3288 Benham, Stanley H., president, Dairymen's League Cooperative 3173 Berger, Irving, Council of Poultry Organizations of New Jersey, Lakewood, N. J 3232 Berghold, William F., New York, N. Y. 3239 Bishop, Jack B., Steuben Area Potato Council, Wayland, N. Y. 3285 Blencoe, Adelbert H., Cooperstown, N. Y. 3282 Bliss, Claud E., Jr., Cooperstown, N. Y.. 3282 Branon, Mrs. Mary B., State Rural Life Chairman, National Council of Catholic Women, Fairfield, Vt.. 3060 Brownell, Forrest, Johnsonville, N. Y. 3286 Browngardt, Theodore, Sprakers, N. Y.. 3290 Candage, Everett C., temporary chairman, Commodities Committee, Schenectady County Farm Bureau, Rotterdam Junction, N. Y.Casler, Warren, Fort Plain, N. Y... Clark, Marvin W., president, Richmond Cooperative Creamery, Dailey, Norman, president, Eastern Federation of Feed Merchants, 3264 Daniels, James P., mayor, Middleburg, N. Y.--. 3222 Davis, Amherst W., president, Suffolk County Farm Bureau, Mount 3279 Dillenbeck, Alton, Fonda, N. Y. 3290 Drake, Clifford S., Cooperstown, N. Y. 3282 Dudley, George C., Connecticut Milk Producers Association, Litchfield, Conn. 3075 Dunklee, Ernest W., Windham County Farm Bureau, Vernon, Vt- 3138 3036 Edson, J. Leo, president, New England Milk Producers Association, 3005 Eastman, Howard, Vermont Certified Seed and Potato Growers Association, Hardwick, Vt... 3066 Evans, Harold J., secretary-treasurer, New York Cooperative Seed 3256 Fitts, Perley I., Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Concord, N. H.-- 3098 Francisco, Harry, Amsterdam, N. Y. 3290 Froberg, Burton, president, Rhode Island Association of Farmers, 3127 Gerisch, Mrs. Frances G., Ashfield, Mass 3062 Grant, O. L., Liberty, N. Y. 3289 Statement of-Continued Page Gray, Earl N., president, United Farmers of New England, Inc., 2999 Griffin, W. W., president, Vermont State Horticultural Society, Hardison, Lewis M., president and general manager, Clark Seed 3224 Harriman, Hon. Averell, Governor of the State of New York, Albany, Heller, Paul, secretary, Artificial Breeding Council of New England.. Hubbard, Oliver J., chairman, committee on national farm legislation, Hussey, Frank W., executive vice president, Potato Industry Council Hutton, William A., president, Connecticut-Massachusetts Tobacco 3083 Huxtable, James F., president, Herkimer County Farm Bureau; director, Young Farmer Group; advisor, West Winfield Future Farmers, West Winfield, N. Y. 3286 Jaffe, David, Glen Wild, Ń. Y. 3287 Keane, Edmund J., vice president and director, agricultural program, 3238 Kelsey, Monford S., president, Tri-State Milk Producers Cooperative, 3245 Klemme, Donald, chairman, Montgomery County Dairy Committee, 3290 Kniffin, Milo R., president, First National Bank, Cobleskill, N. Y.. Lasbury, Ralph C. Jr., director, the Shade Tobacco Growers Agricultural Association, Inc., Hartford, Conn__ 3095 Lehman, Hon. Herbert H., a United States Senator from the State of 3256 Lent, Frank B., marketing counsel, Metropolitan Cooperative Milk 3156 Lyons, James G., assistant commissioner of agriculture, State of New 3274 Masten, Edward C., general manager, Manchester Dairy System, Inc., McLeod, Donald, president, New Hampshire Horticultural Society, 3102 Mills, Jesse E., president, Massachusetts Turkey Growers Association, McSparran, J. Collins, secretary, Pennsylvania State Grange, Harrisburg, Pa. Orr, Samuel J., manager, Connecticut-Massachusetts Tobacco Cooperative, Holyoke, Mass.. 3084 Packard, Arthur, Jericho, Vt... 3122 Pero, Joseph G., manager, Pero Orchards, Manchester, Conn... 3133 Statement of-Continued Roberts, Frank W., secretary, Connecticut Vegetable Growers Association, Middletown, Conn... Page 3056 Schmuckler, Arnold, director, Inter-County Farmers Cooperative 3284 Schumacher, Raymond, president, Ocean County Board of Agriculculture, Toms River, N. J. Shaul, Kenneth A., president, Schoharie County Cooperative Dairies, Inc., and president, Mutual Federation of Independent Cooperatives, Inc., Cobleskill, N. Y.-- 3290 3199 Slocum, Louis, executive secretary, Eastern Farmers Union, Trenton, 3263 Slusarczyk, Ed, farm director, Station WIBX, Utica, N. Y 3207 3125 Smith, Donald L., executive secretary, Vermont Cooperative Council, 3026 Smith, Harold J., president, Bellows Falls Cooperative Creamery, 3021 Smith, Paul, assistant commissioner, Department of Agriculture and 3233 Smith, William T., II, Elmira, N. Y. 3216 Stafford, Henry, chairman, Dairy Cooperative Marketing Committee, 2998 3138 Stoddard, Henry A., Vermont State Grange, Bellows Falls, Vt.- Sykes, Christopher B., vice president, North Worcester County Dairy- Talmage, Ferris G., East Hampton, N. Y. 3272 3111 3217 Tuttle, Arthur, director, Inter-County Farmers Cooperative Association, Inc., Woodridge, N. Y Waldo, Antonio G., secretary, Canastota Growers Cooperative Association, Inc., Canastota, N. Y 3267 Wallace, Keith, president, Vermont State Farm Bureau, Inc., Burlington, Vt.. 3118 Webster, Dean K., Jr., president, H. K. Webster Co., Lawrence, Mass. 3129 3243 Wickham, Don J., president, New York State Farm Bureau, Hector, 3224 Wilber, Stanley R., Gilbertsville, N. Y. 3282 Wood, Roy W., Pittsford, Vt__ 3139 Wright, Archie, president, Farmers Union of the New York Milkshed, 3168 Wyman, Mrs. Raymond, secretary-treasurer, Vermont Turkey 3096 York, John C., Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative Association, 3188 Zelnick, Joseph, Freehold-Lakewood-Farmingdale Cooperative of 3248 PRICE-SUPPORT PROGRAM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1955 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, Montpelier, Vt. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:00 o'clock a. m., in the House of Represetatives room, State Capitol Building, Senator Allen J. Ellender (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Ellender, Holland, and Aiken. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please come to order. The committee is very glad to be here this morning. I have before me a list of witnesses numbering a little over 60, and I want to give assurance that this committee will make every effort to hear all of you. As I indicated last night to some of you, I wish that the witnesses present would listen to the testimony and try to omit as much duplication as possible as we go along. In that way I am sure that we will be able to hear everybody. The list that I have before me was sent out of Washington by one of our secretaries and that was made up from a list of witnesses who desired to be heard, who wrote in to our committee. And as they wrote in, their names were placed on the list. I am using that list but I wish to say that in order to try to get as many of the witnesses who represent particular groups to testify, I may have to skip around a little bit to have them in order. However, if I do overlook some of you at first, I will come back to the list. We have people from Maine interested in potato growing, which is an important segment of their economy. Then we have the dairy people. And we have the small grain and poultry people. We will make every effort, as I said, to give all of those who represent those various commodities an opportunity to have their say. I was informed by the clerk of the committee that by calling the head of, let us say, the dairy group, that 1 will speak for 2 or 3 or 4 who have given in their names. And if I am correct in that, that will, of course, eliminate the testimony of quite a few witnesses who are on this list, but my suggestion is that the witnesses in that group make themselves available, so that in the event that this committee desires to ask questions, for that purpose. Another thing I wish to state is this, do not be guided by the tone of the questions that the members of the committee ask you. We do not want to be judged by the questions we ask as to our views on any particular subject. If a witness takes the negative or the affirmative on the question, we will just take the reverse of what he does in order to bring out all the facts. That is the only reason why that is being done. |