Evening star., 1933-09-24
COTTON BORROWER
MUST AID "a PLAN
Tenant Farmers in for Con-
sideration at Federal
Office.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Officials Of the Farm Administration,
Reconstruction Finance Corporation and
Farm Credit Administration definitely
decided yesterday to require farmers
who borrow 10 cents a pound on their
cotton to cooperate in the production
control plan for next year.
In the case of tenants, the pledge
may mean very little, for they may
cultivate other land next year, or pos
sibly may not cultivate any at all.
The prospect that thousands of tenant
rangements with their landlords next
year, due to the fact cotton planting
is to be reduced to $4,000 900 acres, is
one OF the things causing the Farm
Administration concern.
Land Is Basis.
The county allotment will be made
on the basis of the land itself and
numerous complaints have been made,
but there is nothing to prevent owners
from hiring labor to work the land,
or from reducing the number of tenant
families that ordinarily would cultivate
the farm.
Numerous memoranda have been cir
culated on this within the Farm Ad-
miniStration both as to possible causes
that might be written into the reduc-
ton contract and also as to the division
Of rental and other benefit payments to
tenants who share-crop the land.
Secretary Wallace yesterday insisted
that the Governments agreement to
lend 10 cents pound on cotton still
In the hands of the producer be con-
nected with the control program for
1884.
15,000,000 to Go.
The extent Of that connection prob
ably will be that borrowers will pledge
themselves to the plan designed to take
about $4,000, 900 acres out of production
next year. Any arrangement beyond
this, it was held would be impractical,
for the number Of acres each county
may plant has not been allocated by
the administration.
Oscar johnson. finance administrator
for the administration; Stanley Reed,
counsel for the Reconstruction Corpora
ton, and Herman Oliphant, Farm
credit council, met yesterday for sew
eral hours in Johnson's Office and dis
cussed legal phases of the loan plan.
It was agreed that machinery for the
actual lending should be set up as
quickly as possible. Unless the farm
price of cotton goes to around 10 cents,
bales for the time being But if the
Government is slow in arranging loans
many of them will have to sell to get
immediate cash.
Framed Contract Plan.
Johnson also was one of the trainers
OF the production control plan and he
is studying the tenants problem which
has arisen in connection with it.
Before entering Government service,
he managed a large plantation near
Scott, Miss. He has presented Secre-
tary Wallace with a tentative plan
which that plantation has drawn to
take care of its tenants next year.
The five-year average planted to cct-
ton on the Delta & Pine Land Co.
plantation which johnson directed was
$4,000 acres. A 40 per cent reduction
next year would mean the withdrawal
of $500 acres, leaving 8,400 acres to
grow the staple
In the past each worker in a tenants
family has been allowed six to eight
acres in cotton, some families culti-
waiting as much as 60 acres.
Gardens Allowed.
he LeIldI-tS we're advanced 1Or SUD-
sistence small payment for each acre
cultivated; they were permitted a gar
den, on which they paid a small rental; !;
pastorage for cows, hogs and poultry.
They were allowed a small acreage in
corn, but a rental was paid on this
The plan for next year is to limit
each worker to four acres. with a max
imum limit of "a acres to any family.
The credit advanced them is to be
raised and they are to be allowed land
to grow garden crops and other focd
commodities, rent frse.
In addition the use of tractors is to
be abandoned ard all cotton land Is
to be farmed by tenants.
The readjustment is expected to take
care Ct all tenant families now on the
plantation and farm officials are hoping
that similar arrangements will be made
for other tenant farmers in the South.