Kosdon

This matter under review comes before the Court for the second time. Under date of October 24,1956 I made an order remanding the proceedings to the Review Committee, Area of Venue VI Kern County, State of California “for further hearing and findings of fact as to crop rotation practices followed on new farms on which cotton had been planted prior to 1953”. Pursuant to said mandate the Review Committee held another hearing, and certified and filed in this Court a transcript of the record upon which the determination complained of was made, tojgether with the findings of fact and conclusions of law.

These proceedings are authorized pursuant to Title 7 U.S.C.A. § 1365 , to procure this Court’s review of the determination of the plaintiffs’ 1956 upland cotton acreage allotment made by the defendants. Plaintiffs are farmers in Kern County, California. Defendants, who are also farmers, were appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to act as members of a review committee established pursuant to Title 7 U.S.C.A. § 1363 , for the purpose of hearing appeals from farmers in the counties of Fresno, Tulare, Kern and Kings, of the State of California, who are dissatisfied with acreage…