475226 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS JAMES P. BUCHANAN, Texas, Chairman EDWARD T. TAYLOR, Colorado WILLIAM J. GRANFIELD, Massachusetts THOMAS S. MCMILLAN South Carolina GLOVER H. CARY, Kentucky B. M. JACOBSEN, Iowa MALCOLM C. TARVER, Georgia BUELL SNYDER, Pennsylvania WILLIAM B. UMSTEAD, North Carolina WILLIAM R. THOM, Ohio MARION A. ZIONCHECK, Washington JOHN F. DOCKWELLER, California EDWARD C. MORAN, JR., Maine JAMES MCANDREWS, Illinois EMMET O'NEAL, Kentucky GEORGE W. JOHNSON, West Virginia JAMES G. SCRUGHAM, Nevada JOHN TABER, New York ROBERT L. BACON, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massach setts CLARENCE J. MCLEOD, Michigan MARCELLUS C. SHEILD, Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE JOHN N. SANDLIN, Louisiana, Chairman CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri MALCOLM C. TARVER, Georgia WILLIAM B. UMSTEAD, North Carolina WILLIAM R. THOM, Ohio LLOYD THURSTON, Iowa JOHN T. BUCKBEE, Illinois AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL 1936 MESSRS. HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935. STATEMENTS OF HON. HENRY A. WALLACE, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE; HON. REXFORD G. TUGWELL, UNDER SECRETARY; AND MR. W. A. JUMP, BUDGET OFFICER GENERAL STATEMENT ON GENERAL AGRICULTURAL SITUATION Mr. SANDLIN. Mr. Secretary, we have before us a bill making appropriations for your Department for the fiscal year 1936, and would be glad to have a statement from you. Secretary WALLACE. I greatly appreciate, sir, the opportunity of making a statement, and it seemed to me that it might be worth while, as it were, to stand off to one side on the hill and look at the forest before we plunged into the midst of the trees. I would like to make a ery brief statement of the general agricultural situation and some of the changes which we have made during this past year and then, aking a birdseye view of the Budget, mention briefly some of the changes in this forthcoming Budget as compared with the Budget of the preceding year. First, with regard to the general agricultural situation: There has en, generally speaking, a very material improvement in the year 34 over the year 1933 which, in turn, was a very material improveent over 1932. We still have a long, long way to go and, in certain areas, the situation today is fully as bad or perhaps even worse than Some areas, yet we should not have any feeling of complacency what1932 and, while progress has been made, very striking progress in soever. The adjustment program has succeeded even better than I had Farmers has been even more cooperative than I anticipated. While Anticipated when we embarked upon it in 1933, and the spirit of the ere are many, Lave been unable to get the checks out as fast as the farmers have Wished-I might say in all cases we have been unable to get the checks as fast as we had hoped for yet, on the whole, the spirit with ich the adjustment program is moving forward is a good spirit. many cases of dissatisfaction, while in many cases we |
