I would like to say. as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Agricultural Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor. that we have held hearings. including hearings earlier in this year in Florida. involving the typhoid epidemic. As a resident of the State of Michigan. I am conscious of the fact that in our State. without the supply of migrant workerswe are the third largest employer of migrant workers in the countrywithout that supply. the principal cash crops we have in agriculture would not amount to very much. Without that supply the principal cash crops we have in agriculture would not amount to very much because they would not be harvested. We have come through the war years without having that supply impeded. We know from firsthand experience what would happen if the supply of migrant labor that comes from other parts of the country and into upper Michigan in the later parts of the season were impeded or stopped somewhat in its flow. This flow is impeded largely because. among other things. living conditions of the migrant workers and their families in many parts of the country are not what they should be. In Florida. for example. where the typhoid epidemic broke out. among other problems. was the fact that here was a federally supported migrant labor residential area which had more than twice as many people living in it as it was designed for. There was no way in the world that they could have maintained safety and sanitation under those circumstances. Over 200 people were diagnosed as typhoid cases.