culture can ao longer be controlled by controlling six basic crops and all the soil-bank adaptations and ehything o far i . ha \ e not changed that fundamental. Talk all you like. I seriously ques tion if we can ever make a smooth, smart, jand saucy 1957 model out of a 1938 agricultural program merely by patching and plugging and re painting the component parts. There have been too many changes in ag riculture since 1938 and we must face the facts of life-. Twenty years ago we did not have any dacron and nylon or other synthetic fibers. Cotton was a lot more basic 20 years ago than it is today. Twenty years ago you ladies were not dieting quite so much. You were eating a lot more bread, and. people were buying flour by the 24-pound and 48-pound bag. Down South they were buying it by the 200-pound in riel Wheat was a 18 more basic tin n. And wind about corn , 8 ne T wo - tiiinois-Indiana corn bloc tells us that corn is just as basic as it ever was that it is the whole iife-and-death key to the livestock and poultry production in this coun try. But now just a minute, what is the whi.ie story? Corn is jtist about 50 per cent a's basic as it was 2-i years ago and therein lies the root of til. whole problem. Twenty years ago the people in the Corn Belt were producing a 20i> ! : ■: : o :h ,82 . i 2 i bu.-in ■ e; corn. But they are not feeding that way any more. They are produci ng a 2iHt-pound hog with 12 bushels of emu and loo pounds of protein sup plement, soybean or cottonseed meal. Now. which is basic, the corn or the soybean and the cottonseed

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