White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-12-28
Corn-Hog Program
Opens In January

HyHudDlc
producers In the new corn-hog proouc.
ton control program Of the agricultural
adjustment administration, announces
F. e. Balmer, director Of the state col
lege agricultural extension service. Inc
International and preliminary organl-
cation campaign will be launched carry
in January through the county agrl-
cultural agents in the different coun-
ties. The plan will be open to all farm
ers growing ten or more acres OF corn
or three or more filters of pigs year,
or both :,
Although the national campaign Will
be concentrated in the middle western
states where the bulk of the corn ana
hogs are grown, every farmer IN the
state who can qualify will be given an
opportunity to sign contract. WIN
hogs topping the market as low as
SO so per hundred pounds, the hog plan
is the only way the farmer can be as
s,,red of a parity price for his product.
AS corn is>one of the keys to the prob
lem, production must likewise be re-
duced to bring the supply of hogs into
better balance with effective demand.
A payment of 80 cents per bushel
on 20 per cent, or the required corn
acreage contracted to the government,
makes $77,55O in benefit payments
available to corn growers of the state,
based on the 10000 bushels produced
in 1882. Based on the $4,000 hogs
marketed in 1882, hog producers OF the
state can secure approximately $596,25o
by reducing their filters and hogs mar
keted by Is per cent and receiving a
SIS per head adjustment payment on
the remaining rs per cent. Cash bene-
fit payments will make possible the re-
duction of corn and hog production
without loss of immediate cash income
and still leave farmers in a position
to profit from any Improvement in
regular corn and hog prices.
Control Associations
AS in the recent wheat program, the
agricultural adjustment administration
has designated the extension service tt
, place all details of the corn-hog pro-
gram before the farmer and conduc
1.-The preliminary organization. f'uiiow
, ing series of meetings where the plal
, will be discussed in detail, county corn
hog production control associations viii
, be elected in the different count1e
from cooperating growers. These as
D sociations will be made up OF a boart
. of directors and community committee
. men, When the association is formal.
organized, local administration OF tn
q plan will pass over to the partlclpath
q farmers. Both corn and hogs, or e1the
as the case may be, will be handle
;, by the one association to avoid dupll
q cation of expense and effort.
. A plan to limit production of cor
q and hogs to effective demand is con
# sidered necessary to the restoration c
). parity prices. The loss in export mar
y kets, loss of consumer buying poWe
y, more intensive feeding of hogs IN Tn
= middle west because of the decline
"a the quantity of corn fed to horses, an
C the greater efficiency in feeding an
a. management, have helped push nc
10 and corn prices to extremely untaVol
~ able current levels. Vast changes
foreign and domestic demand since tt
war have left the United States VIII
an excess of at least one hog In eve
six grown in the corn belt in recel
" years, and an excess of around 2O,OOl
900 acres of corn.
Administrative rulings to interpr
of the corn-hog contract with respect
as special conditions and circumstance
,ct such as division of adjustment pa
NO ments among landlords and tenan
"a transfer of hog allotments from retl
lie. ing producers to new producers, a.
,ia the manner of check-up on productl
records by the community commune
asst are to be issued soon by the Secreta
nd of Agriculture. Complete details OF {
nd plan will then be announced at spec
.ch meetings and in the newspapers by
on. local county agents. Special arrane
led ments will have to be made IN
of few counties not having agrlcultu
be agents.