The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-06-22

has reduced the prospective crop
for this year, and the adjustment
administration decided to put the
plan in effect at once because of
the existence of a carryover three
times normal and because heavy
SURPRISES might result from normal
yields in 1884 on only an average
planted acreage. The plan is to
pay two thirds of the benefit this
fall, and the remainder next spring
after the planting season.
M. l.. Wilson, Montana Agricul-
tural College professor in recent
years, who qualified as a true dirt
farmer by homesteading in Ne
braska when he was 81, is in
charge of the wheat adjustment
program.
Approximately a million partic-
ipating wheat farmers should be af-
fected. The administration will be
thoroughly decentralized, with
farmers organizing their own coun-
ty committees to take charge of
local details of administration. The
farmers will choose their own men
to handle the county program. Each
county group will pay its own ex-
penses, to be charged to each farm
er according to his allotment. The
more economically the local unit
is operated, the less it will cost
the farmers.
The average amount of wheat
that farmers have grown in the
last three years will determine the
basis of their allotments, Mr.. Will
son says. The government has Of
fetal records on state and county
production. Averages for the crop
years 1928 to 1892 will be computed,
and upon this average production
and acreage the allotment for each
county will be made. After the al
lotment to each county, the county
committee will have each farmer
list his wheat acreage and produc-
ton for the last three years. The
committee will take an average of
this, and then allot to each farmer
his proportionate share of the
amount allotted to the county.
The wheat farmer who wishes to
participate in the plan is to join
his local organization as soon as it
is formed, turn in the figures on his
production and acreage planted for
the last three years, and agree to
reduce his acreage by the desired
amount, in no case more than 20
per cent of this three-year average.
In return, the farmer will re-
ceive an allotment which is in the
same proportion to his average
production as the total wheat do
mestically consumed in this coun-
try for food is to the total wheat
grown. This allotment will be in
bushels. On this allotted number of
bushels, he will receive a cash ben
eft from funds raised by a process
ing tax levied on the basis of the
relationship between present price
and parity price of the pre-war per-
iod. It is estimated that about 30
cents per bushel will be paid, two
thirds by about September Is and
the remaining third in the spring
OF 1884. =, :.
To obtain the benefit the farmer
must plant his crop in the ordinary
manner, but if it is hailed out, dried
out, blown out or otherwise de-
stroyed by nature, he will receive
his benefit just the same. -
The plan has absolutely nothing
to do with the selling Of wheat by
a farmer or grain dealer. A farm
err may sell his wheat when and to
whom he pleases, or he need not
sell it at all. It is entirely up to
him. The plan is not a price fix
ing measure.
The consumer is not forgotten.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act
gives the secretary of agriculture
the power to enforce fair trade
practices among food distributors,
and, if the processing tax is found
unduly burdensome, he is directed
to lower it.
The administration will use the
agricultural extension service in or
ganizing farmers under the plan.
County agents will take an active
part in the organization and are
in position to give information on
the wheat plan.