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The result was that the expensive and unsuccessful acreage reserve experiment was continued.
Last week, [Secretary of Agriculture Ezra [TV Benson said the Administrators would recommend to Congress that the acreage reserve Scheme he dropped at the end of this crop year. Mr. Benson did not admit thit the program had been a failure in controlling the agricultural surplui problem, bef cause, he w&J, hank had, k#pt the surpluses flower than they would have |een Without it. The • jeal question,! however, is whether
average] farmer—-arid other taxpayers—h$ve gotten their money’s worth in stabilization of the agricultural economy by investing in a. second year of this experiment and being committed to a third. Because taxpayers' money—mcludng soma of my own—is involved, 1 gat no pleasu re in Wingi “1 told! youTso, ^whcn Mr,^ ‘ Beiison* cpmk around to the view that we have' had enough °t the 'acreage reserve soil bank. The published reports of the Agriculture Department, covering the 1957 crop year, convince me, however, that the agrcultural economy 4-and certainly the average farraler Of the 7th Virginia Congressional District—would have been better off ff my amendment had become law last year, and the mdtoey now committed to the 1958 soil bank acreage reserve payments * ad been applied elsewhere.
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