The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-07-13
Stearns Co. Anot-
ment Is 47,O66
Wheat Producers to Be Paid
On Estimated Production
For Year
Growers Will Be Asked to Re-
duce Acreage 20 Per Cent
In 1884

Stearns countys allotment for
wheat for 1884 under the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Act, as determin-
ed by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, will be APP
proximately 313,776 bushels. This
means that, if the wheat-growers
of the county cooperate in full
with the United States Agricultural
Adjustment Administration on the
basis of past production, by con-
tracing to reduce their production
for 1884 and 1885, there will be
paid to them all total of approx
imately $47066 for the year 1888.
The payments for 1934-35 will be
determined later.
The allotment is based on the av-
erage annual wheat production of
the county for the last five years,
1928 to 1882. The average produc-
ton for the five years 192S-32, in
Stearns county was 392, 220 bushels.
The allotment in bushels is ar
rived at by reducing by 20 per cent
the average annual production. The
20 per cent is the proposed cut in
the total wheat production for the
entire United States, in which each
grower is asked to cooperate by
reducing his acreage 20 per cent.
It is expected that with such a re-
duction the supply will be adequate
to take care of domestic needs on
the one hand, and Of possible ex-
port demand on the other hand,
and at the same time help to dis
pose Of the present excess surplus.
Compensatory payments, however
are to be made only on that part
of the crop which is domestically
consumed, that is, consumed as
human food in the United States.
The normal domestic consumption
is so to go per cent of the normal
production. The money allotment,
on the basis of so per cent Of nor
NAL production for domestic con-
sumption, therefore, is arrived at
by multiplying one-half of the
bushel allotment by 80 cents, the
amount to be added to the price per
bushel in order to bring the price
of wheat to parity in buying pow
er with the price Of wheat in the
years 1909-14, before the war. The
expense of administering the affairs
in each county will be deduced
from the allotment that is finally
made by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
Some adjustment may have to be
made for the current year in the
percentage Of cut in production or
acreage, depending upon the &C
ton Of the international wheat con-
ference in London, and adjustments
may have to be made next year
in the needed cut in acreage and
in the amount added to the current
price to maintain a parity between
the buying power of wheat and 9TH
er commodities. But, as things
stand now, the allotment for
the 1888 crop for this county will
be about as they have been given
in the foregoing, according to cal
culations made by the extension
service, University Farm, st. Paul,
based on the crop averages COM
piled by Paul H. Kirk, United
States crop statistician for Mime
sofa.
Two-thirds of the compensatory
payments on the 1888 crop will be
paid late in September or early in
October and the remaining one
third next spring when the farmers
have shown the required reduction
in their 1884 wheat acreage seed
ings.
To obtain the compensatory pay
ments, the wheat growers Of the
county are expected to form vol
untary wheat production control
association, made up of those who
sign contracts with the Agricultur-
al Adjustment Administration to
reduce their acreage. The steps in