The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-07
EXPLAIN IN DETAIL
FARMERS DUTY IN
7 GOVERNMENT PLAN
Percentage Of Acreage Reduc.
ton Required Will Be An
nounced Aug. a.

farmers were told Saturday just what
they are expected to do in the cam
paign to restore purchasing power,
through regulations issued by the farm
administration to govern distribution
Of up to $4,000, 900 Of federal funds.
Though the general plan had been
outlined in broad way previously,
detailed regulations issued including
copies Of the contract through which
the grower promises to reduce acre
age next year, told the story Of what
the farmers must do.
The percentage of reduction is to
be announced by Secretary Wallace
Aug. "a, and will be governed by the
result of the International wheat
conference in London. It may be as
high as 20 per cent of an individual
growers average annual acreage"
This country's wheat farmers will
receive not less than % cents bushel
on 56,198,588 bushels Of wheat. The
money is being raised through a pro-
cessing tax Of 80 cents a bushel on the
millers or other professors of grain.
The government printing office be-
gan turning out 100000 applications
for the wheat adjustment contracts
which are expected to be in the hands
Of the farmers within 10 days. Then
the contracts will go out. M. L. Will
son, chief of the wheat section of
the farm administration, said that
most of them were expected to be
signed by Sept. Is.
May Continue Plan
While the specific acreage reduc-
ton and the payments to be agreed
upon this fall will cover wheat plant
ed for harvest in 1894, the contracts
give Secretary Wallace what amounts
to an option to utilize the same plan
the next year.
Growers who join in the plan may
be required to make another acre
age reduction before planting their
crop for harvest in 1885, in return for
payments to be made on the allotment
basis. Whether the plan will be en-
ployed the second time will depend
upon the supply and demand situa-
ton as Wallace finds it in the sum-
mer of 1894. If he continues the plan,
he also will continue the processing
tax.
Payments this year are to begin
about Sept. Is. The, first payment
will be 20 cents bushel on the farm
er's allotment. The second, not less
than eight cents, will be made after
proof that the grower has fulfilled his
agreement to reduce acreage.
II the grower wants to participate
in the program he becomes a member
Of this county wheat production con-
troll association, which names county
allotment committees composed Of
three members each.
These committees determine the
allotments for the individual farmer.
They do it on the basis of detailed
information furnished by the grower,
which includes acres of wheat seed
ed and harvested and the number of
bushels harvested in 1890, 1881, and
1882.
Individual growers are paid in most
instances for approximately 81 per
cent of their average production for
the last three years. The bounty will
be paid on 456, 198,588 bushels of the
grain, which is 81 per cent Of the five
year average production in the United
States for the period ended June 30,
1882.
Must Submit Record
The grower has just begun to COM
pie information when he gives his
wheat data for 1880, 1881, and 1882.
He must submit q full record Of all
crops planted on his farm In 1888. In
some instances, in the case Of larger
growers, figures for 1928 and 1929 on
wheat production may be required.
The farmer is to file sketch map
of his farm with his application. He
will be asked for supplementary state
ments on disposal Of his crop, thresh-
ermen's certificates and certificates of
the sale of his wheat.
He agrees also that the statements
made by him may be published in his
local newspaper. This, officials said,
will enable his neighbors to check his
statements and eventually his allot-
ment with their own.
The county allotments must COIN
eide with that fixed by the farm adj
ministration, and the figures given on
acres and production by the county
committees will be checked by Off
cial records in Washington. In the
event Of discrepancies, county CON-
mittees are to make corrections and
1esubmit the figures to Washington.
A county total must be approved be-
fore any payments are made in that
county.
No contracts are valid until they
have been accepted by the secretary
Of agriculture.
List Important Points
Some important points OF the con-
tract are: land taken out OF produc-