Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-09-28
2OO9 APPLICATIONS
MADE under WHEAT
Allotment SETUP
Organization Meetings Are
Now Being Held Turnout
the County

with meetings completed at An
tei0pe and Reserve Wednesday. and
meetings scheduled for Medicine
Lake and Homestead Thursday, the
organization of permanent com
mittees as well as the county aG-
miDistration board for the wheat
allotment plan was under way this
week.
H. X LELAND, prominent farmer
n one who has always taken an
active part in cooperative organi-
cations, was the choice of the Ante
fope group as chairman of It's per
manent committee and to serve as
director on the county board of
administration. The other two
members selected were Eric Teigen
and X. d. Clark.
More than 60 members were
present at the organization meeting
IN Reserve last evening. For this
community Gus Wagner was nam
ed chairman ana a director of the
county board. Eric Sundsted and
Oswald Anderson were the other
iWo members OF the permanent
committee.
Two meetings are held each day.
one at two o'clock in the after
noon. and the second at 7.3O In fhe.
evening In adjacent territories
Three men are elected at these
meetings to comprise the
ent committee. the first of which
selected will serve as chairman and
automatically becomes q member
o h county administration board
Only those who have filed their
application for allotment contracts
are entitled to vote at these meet
ings.
Carl H. Peterson. emergency
county agent in charge OF fhe
work. points out that 1t IL verv
important that the three most
competent and best qualified wheat
growers who have applied for AL
iofment in the respective comm
unifies should be elected to the
community representatives. The
should be those who
ere qualified tn serve. for upon
their Judgment, fairness and i'm
Partially will depend the success |
OF the Wheat Association and
Wheat Control Plan. Among the
OF the local committees is to
to the correctness OF appli-
cations. secure the totals of the
production data of the n~on-cooper-
afors as well as the cooperators
and assist the County Allotment
Committee In various ways when
so requested
S7snup Campaign Completed
The signup campaign within the
county closed officially last Mon
day. although the office is com
pieting applications that were not
properly filled out prior to above
A preliminary checkup Of
the applications indicate that 1881
individual farmers and landowners
have made applications for allot-
meal in Sheridan county. and al
OF 1909 applications have
been filed with approximately sol
cases that are still out for sigma
and incompleted details.
1t has been very gratifying to
those in charge OF the campaign to
[inu the hearty cooperation that
has been accorded by committee
men and farmers of the county.
The 1880 census indicates that
there We're 1922 farmers growing
wheat In 1929. A number of
-hese have since left, and In some
a number of farms con-
solidated. but based upon the
above figures. 90 per cent OF all
he possible farmers within the
county have applied for allotment.
Schedule for district organize
ion meetings follows:
Sept 20. Friday-Dagmar, 2:0O
M; Coalridge. 7.3o P. M.
Sept 80. saturday-Westby, 200
M: Comertown. 1880 p. M.
Oct 2. Monday-Dooley. 2.OOI
?. NJ; Raymond, 7.30 P. Nj.
Oct I, Wednesday-Archer, $500
: NJ. Wolf Greek. 7.3O r. Mr..
Oct 5. Thursday-Plentywood.