The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-08-04
WHEAT CONTROL
CAMPAIGN STARTED
Farmers Will Be Asked To
Make Nominal Reduce
tons In Acreage

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Plans are being made as rapidly
as possible for bringing to the
wheat growers of Cecil county the
benefits of the new Agricultural Ad-
justment Act, according to ]. z.
Miller, County Agent. He has just
received authorization to proceed
with the campaign from Director T.
B. Symons, who has been paced in
charge of the wheat produc.--.l con-
oil features of The Act in th-s State
by the Federal officials.
1t is his intention, Mr.. Miller says,
to select county advisory commit
tee to assist in developing plans for
cue campaign. Members of farm
organizations, leading wheat grow
ers, and others will be asked to
serve on such a committee.
Mr.. Miller attended conference
at Centreville, Gully 25th,) at which
details of the wheat control pro-
gram were explained and the type Of
organization to be set up in each
county was described. All plans re-
garding the character of organiza-
ton in the counties and the system
by which benefit payments will be
made are decided by Federel author
tiles, he says, and those engaged in
the work in the State and counties
are to carry out those plans.
Within the next few weeks it is
planned to hold meetings of wheat
growers in all parts of the county,
at which the plans of the Federal
Government for production control
will be explained. Out of these
meetings it is expected that COM
munity committees will be selected
and members of County Board Of
Directors will be chosen. This
Board will select County Allot-
ment Committee, which will be an
important factor in administering
the Act in this county
Mr.. Miller believes that the wheat
growers of Cecil county will respond
readily to the proposal by the Fed
eral Government to give them cash
benefit payments for three years in
return for agreeing to reduce acre.
age not more than twenty per cent
ON two crops, and that large per-
centage of them will apply for con-
tracts.
The plan for wheat production
control, it is pointed out, is a part
of the general recovery program
which the Federal Government is
pushing vigorously. In carrying
out the program in this county, Mr..
Miller says, it will be the. aim to CO.
operate with local Organizations,
business interests, millers and wheat
dealers and, in fact all who are in
terested, and to enlist their support.
In return for their compensations
in the national wheat production
control program, farmers of Cecil
county will be asked to make nomi-
nal reductions in their wheat acre
age for the years 1884 and 1886.
The exact amount of these re-
quired reductions will be announced
by Secretary Henry A. Wallace after
careful study Of the entire current
wheat situation, but they will in no
event be more than 20 per. cent of
the average acreage the grower had
in wheat during the base period
from 1880 through 1882. ''''
The reductions, which because. of
the compensation payments can, be
made by the individual farmer with
out loss of immediate cash income,
are the very foundation of the
whole wheat plan. O1ncials of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration point out that planned pro-
duction, with reductions 10 bring
the supplies OF wheat III Inc with
effective demand, is wal i'll solving
the wheat problem.
Whatever reductions are required
will be in exactly the same percent
age for every wheat farmer in Amer
lea who participates in the wheat
plan.
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