The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Patching Up the
Allotment Plan

The more l see of the "brain
trust" the less l think of it. I
simply can't help it. Here is this
great big "brain trust" in Wash
ington, the fathers of the AlIor-
ment child. This foster child of
big brains has now been in opera
ton for months and months. and
is getting to a point where no
BODY knows neither head nor tail
to it. If the Allotment plan was
fostered in a bughouse it could
not have been more complicated
and impractical.
There are dirt farmers. right here
In this county whose ideas are so
much superior to the brain trusts
that there is no comparison. But
nobody will listen to them. Not
even our little local 'brain trust
consisting of three men on the
Allotment committee and the coun-
tY agent.
For wears men from this county
have advocated farm relief meas.
wres a thousand times better anC
so much more practical than the
! Allotment plan, but nobody wanted
to listen to them. They were moi
members of the "brain trust
Now when everybody is up il
the air about the 35 per cent acre
age overrun. and nobody will
"brains" knows what to do with it
here comes a dirt farmer with al
idea that is absolutely sound, an,
as simple as rolling off a log. HI
brings this idea to Gus little loca
"brain trust. "They talk nice t
him and agree to everything tina
he says. They are so sorry, bu
they don't think they can do any
thing for him and the $50 farmer
he in a hurry had gotten to sig
the petition.
The plan suggested is credite
to Marinus Tbsen of Coalridge, an
several meetings have been helC
where the plan has been recon
mended by the farmers present.
The plan has been printed in tn
paper before but we will give al
other outline of it. Through tn
reports it is known how many GU
tivated acres there is in the couT
ty. We also know the governmer
estimated wheat acres. Even i
] these figures are wrong. the queI
. ton at this time is to bring OF
: own wheat acres down the 35 p'
. cent to the government figures.
If the government wheat acr,
age is, let us say. so per cent {
; the total cultivated acres. the
the idea is to cut all cultivate
e acreage down in half and by doir
t so get the wheat acreage down
e the government figure.
1t is simple and it is fair. Fa
! to the little farmer who has r
duced his wheat acres and divers
fled as he has been told to do. b
. it is going to hurt the sidewa
= farmer who has kept on seedil
, wheat and more wheat.
: So when this committee of farI
ers LAYS this proposition before O
= "brain trust" newly elected by t
) farmers, the proposition is turn
down. Not because it is no GOO
- but because it is going to hurt t
Z sidewalk farmers. that the bra
trust" has had a good chance
mingle with during their stay
PlentyWood. -.
The excuse they are giving i
! not adopting this plan is. that tn
don't think they have a right
do it, but that is only an excu
At present time thew are cutti
acreage right and left Just as tn
feel like, and they would have j
! as much right to use a unifor
= system.
~ This is only another concr,
proof that the farmers of Sherid
n county have got nothing to S
y about the Allotment plan. !
- committee thew elected was eiti
on the other side of the fence
fore election or Topped over Sc
- after