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Show ! HOUSTON CONTRADICTED I BY FORMER ASSOCIATE ! I By Associated Press. j WASHINGTON. Dev. IS - In a let- ter today to Chairman (lore of tne t Heiuite ugricutt ural commit tee, W. J. Spillinau, former chief of the department depart-ment of agriculture's office of farm man Kemf nt, took exception to the recent re-cent statement of Secretary Houston I hat t he department was without i trust worthy eti mates of the cost of j farm production. Mr. Spill man re- it wed at length Investigations mane by his office and added "There is no pos.-ohiTTTv. no matter how exlennive t lie invest i gat ion, of j getting more than a reasonably accurate ac-curate approximation to a final result. re-sult. This was done in the Investigations Investi-gations timler discussion." Mr. Spiiiman contended that the farmers are entitled to know the re-tulls re-tulls obtained and to iuv whether the) I reports prepared on wheat growing j I represent the facts in the case. He ' also suggested t hat the committee Is 'entitled to know why the work of his j office in this connection was suspend- j i ed three mont hs last fall and winter, j |