Mr. WHITTEN. Mr. Trigg, we will be glad to have your general

statement.

Mr. TRIGG. Mr. Chairman, I would like to read this statement, if I may. It is a short, one-page statement. The activities carried out under the marketing services appropriation are of major importance in both normal times and in times of national emergency. It would be impossible to maintain a semblance of orderly marketing of agricultural products without the accurate and timely news on stocks, movement, and prices, the uniform grades and standards uniformly applied, and the safeguards against fraudulent and careless marketing practices which are provided under this appropriation. Some of this work started as a direct result of conditions that existed during World War I. It expanded greatly as a result of persistent demands during the following 23 years. The work as a whole proved to be invaluable during World War II. We are requesting increases for four lines of work. A $250,000 increase is requested for cotton classing which is mandatory under the Cotton Acts. With a 16,000,000 bale crop next year it will be impossible to meet demands for classing from Smith-Doxey cotton improvement groups unless this increase is granted.

Mr. ANDERSEN. There, Mr. Trigg you are asking for an increase before you ever get the cotton produced.

Mr. TRIGG. It is only in anticipation of the crop we would have, Mr. Andersen. You have got to get cotton classers and train them. You have got to get the set-up to do that work. In other words, if the increase is not granted, we know that we could not even plan the work to begin with.

Mr. WHITTEN. Mr. Trigg, in that connection, a few years ago there was a determined effort to tremendously increase the amount of money for cotton classing.

However, the chief problem was in connection with the cotton loans. Many people wanted to provide money to set up cotton classing offices in certain communities. Of course if you set it up in one, then every other community wants the same thing.

At that time we provided that you could meet that need as it arose by using some of the Commodity Credit funds. Now, it strikes me that if we could give you some basis on which to meet the problems as it arises, that would be better than to provide funds here for this type of classing which may materialize and may not.

If you had the authority to make these funds available as needed, you would not be under the same pressure to set up permanent offices. And where you have some cotton associations and others with trained personnel, here you give them such tests as you might require, you might be able to handle it even better.

That is not as necessary, I realize, under this particular program here as it is under the loan program, where many factors enter into the problem-the size of the crop, the prevailing market prices as of the time, and railway embargoes on movement of the commodity. There is no need to keep a lot of cotton classing offices open the year round with nothing to do.

Mr. TRIGG. What I would like to see done would be an arrangement similar to what is done in the case of the International Wheat Agreement, and the financing of the foot-and-mouth-disease program

out of Commodity Credit funds, and then come up and ask for an appropriation to reimburse CCC on this type of thing. In that way we would have the authority to expand as needed and we would not need to keep a big organization and be trying to anticipate what it is going to be.

The authority would be available to utilize the funds and later get reimbursed for them, and that would not be a charge against the Commodity Credit Corporaion.

Mr. WHITTEN. It would result in quite a bit of savings, too, if you make it elastic, would it not?

Mr. TRIGG. I think it would.

The more elastic these things could be, the greater flexibility you have and the better job you can do. I believe it would amount to some savings.

Mr. WHITTEN. Proceed, then.

Mr. TRIGG. Increases of $50,000 each are requested for the Federal Seed Act and the Insecticide Act. In each instance, the increase is needed in order to perform an increased volume of enforcement work as required by law. The proper enforcement of these acts is important dollarwise to farmers and in terms of food and fiber necessary for national defense.

The remaining increase of $54,500 is for the United States Grain Standards Act. This is to enable us to handle additional appeals from licensed inspectors' grades. The law entitles producers and grain dealers to this protection from incorrect grading, but for the last 2 years we have been unable to provide the service to a large number of applicants. Many individuals and trade organizations have been highly critical to the point of bringing the matter before the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee and other congressional committees about a year ago. We believe this increase would enable us to correct this situation to a large extent.

In accordance with recommendations of both the executive and legislative branches, this year's budget structure for marketing services has been extensively revised. The six subappropriations have been eliminated and the 34 financial projects have been reduced to 5. All similar functions have been consolidated so that the Market News Service, for instance, includes all market news work, whereas before parts of this work were included under four different subappropriations. Each of the financial and work projects will tie directly into our accounting records-another improvement over the former structure.

Mr. WHITTEN. I believe that I will ask that the table on page 128 be inserted in the record at this point.

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