The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-07-13
REDWOOD COUNTY
WHEAT ALLOTMENT
30S,6OO BUSHELS
Total of S46,29O Due Farmers
for 1888 Crop if All
Cooperate
1885 PAYMENT NOT SET
Two-Thirds of Payment Due in
September or October
This Year

Redwood county's allotment for
wheat for 1884 under the Agricultur-
al Adjustment act, as determined by
the United States department of
agriculture, will be approximately
3O8,60O bushels. This means that, if
the wheat-growers of the county CO.
operate in full with the United States
Agricultural Adjustment administra-
ton on the basis of past production,
by contracting to reduce their produc-
ton for 1884 and 1885, there will be
paid to them total of approximate
ly S46,29O for the year 1888. The
payments for 1934-35 will be deter
mined later.
The allotment is based on the aver
age annual wheat production of the
county for the last five years, 1928 to
1882. The average production for the
five years 1882, in Redwood coun-
ty was 3S5,75O bushels.
The allotment in bushels is arrived
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 grow
er is asked to cooperate by reducing
his acreage 20 per cent. 1t is ex-
pected that with such a reduction the
supply will be adequate to take care
of domestic needs on the one hand
and of possible export demand on the
other hand and at the same time help
to dispose of the present excess
Compensatory payments 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 60 per cent Of
the normal production. The money
allotment, on the basis of SO per cent
of normal production for domestic
consumption, is arrived at by multi
plying one-half of the bushel allot-
ment by 80 cents, the amount to be
added to the price per bushel in order
to bring the price of wheat to a
parity in buying power with the price
of wheat in the years 1909-14, before
the war. The expense of administer
ing the affairs in each county will be
deducted from the allotment that is
finally made by the United States de-
partment of agriculture.
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 seedlings.
To obtain the compensatory pay
ments, the wheat growers of the
county are expected to form volun-
tary wheat production control asso-
citation, made up of those who sign
contracts with the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration to reduce
their acreage. The steps in the
forming of such an association will
be explained by the county agricul-
tural agent in each county having
such an agent or by agricultural adj
justment agents in counties not hav-,
ing county agents. Conferences are
being held with such agents at Uni.
versity Farm, St. Paul, this week, to
acquaint them with the details of the
program.
The compensatory payments for
the 1888 crop will be made from
special federal fund appropriated for
the purpose. This fund will be main
tanned by a processing tax on flour
and other wheat products, to be col
lected from millers.