The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-13
50 CENTS A BUSHEL
GIFT LOOMS FOR 60
PER CENT OF CROP
States Average Production For
Last Five Years Is 1922.
$4,000 Bushels
COMPILE COUNTY FIGURES
Revision Is Possible But Data
Made Public Is Expected
to Be Used

production allotments which will fur
nish the basis for payment OF wheat
production control benefits of the ag-
ricultural adjustment administration
to North Dakota growers were an.
nounced for all counties Of the state
Thursday by G. F. Monroe, extension
director of the North Dakota Agricul-
tural college.
The allotments were computed by
the United States department of ag-
riculture and are based on the average
production of wheat in the various
counties for the last five years.
For North Dakota as a whole the
average production Of wheat during
the last five years was 102,254, 800
bushels. Production control benefits
of approximately 80 cents a bushel
are payable on about so per cent of
this total, according to the statement
OF M. l.. Wilson, national wheat ad-
ministrator, while in Fargo last week.
Definite announcement of the a.
mount of benefit to be paid per bushel
and the proportion Of the crop on
which this sum is to be paid is expect
ed within the next few days.
Some later revision in the allot-
ments to the different counties is DOS.
sible but the county five-year-produc-
ton averages, as made Thursday. are
substantially as they will be when the
first payments are made in Septem-
Der.
The allotments to be made to in
dlvidual farms, Monroe has pointed
out, are based on three-year aver
age of acreages seeded. In order to
receive the wheat production control
benefit, farmers must agree to limit
their 1884 and 1885 acreages as much
as 20 per cent ii that reduction is
deemed advisable by the administers
ton OF the plan. BY agreeing to do
this growers will be paid the Indicated
3O-cent benefit on that portion of
their crop which is consumed domes.
tically as human food. The share that
is subject to this payment probably
Will be about go per cent.
No county has a five-year average
production Of wheat less than a half
million bushels, which is assurance
that sufficient volume will be avail
able everywhere to operate the plan
on an economic basis. Cost of adj
ministering the program In no In
stance Is expected to be more than
about two cents bushel, in the opin-
ion OF Wilson. The cost is to be sub
tracted from the benefit payments to
each farm. s
1t Is emphasized by those in charge
of the plan that the individual allot-
ments are based, not on the produc-
ton OF the grower but on the produce
ton OF the farm he operates. That is,
even II farm has changed hands or
is under different management. the
wheat acreages during the last three
years on that particular farm will be
used. In moving to new farm the
operator must govern his acreage by
the acreage that was seeded there
during 1880, 1881, and 1882.
In the case of the individual grow
er the three-year average acreage is
taken to simplify the problem of OBJ
tanning statistics. In numerous cases
1t would be exceedingly difficult tc
obtain accurate acreage and produc.
ton figures farther back than three
crops.
The work of setting up county COM
mittees to cooperate in the wheat
control program is now
getting under way, director Monroe
states. Preliminary activities include
appointment of temporary adjustment
representatives for each county, the
holding OF conferences for training
these men and county extension
agents, and arrangements for an in
formational campaign to acquaint
growers with the provisions of the
production control contract,
Temporary representatives for the
counties are being selected from those
eligible on the rolls of the federal
civil service commission. The actiN-
les Of these men will be confined to
he production control program and
hey will act in the organizing and
work.