The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-06-29
Wheat Plan
Brings Cash
To Farmers
For Grower This Year Who
Take Part in Adjustment
Program.
FIRST PAYMENT
MADE IN SEPTEMBER

Editors Note-Following is an arti
Gle that explains more fully the pla
by which It il hoped farmers will re
ceive better price for their whea
under the new Roosevelt legislation.
BOHEMIAN, June 26.-Cash benefit
will be paid to Montana wheat farm
ers this fall, probably by Septembe
Is, under the plan with which tn,
Agricultural Adjustment Adrninistra,
ton has decided to make the farm &C
effective for wheat this year.
Montana ranks fifth in wheat pro.
duction. the records of the u. S. de.
partmenf Of agriculture show. In tn.
five-year period, 1882, 1t produce<
on an average 45,167,000 bushels ane
planted on the average, 4,536,60O acres
The wheat adjustment program pro-
vides for paying cash benefits to farm
ers on the basis Of the percentage OIL
their average wheat crop for the past
three years which is domestically con-
surned as food, upon agreement oil
farmers to reduce their acreages Pro-
cessing taxes are to be levied to pay
the costs.
Will Pay Cash Benefits.
The plan will be to pay cash benefits
each year on the allotments of each
farmer for 1888, 1884, and 1885, pro-
vided the farmer agrees to reduce his
planted acreage for the 1884 and 1885
crops by percentage that will subse-
quently be determined by the secre-
tary OF agriculture, but will not be
more than 20 per cent Of the average
acreage planted by the farmer in the
last three years
Only an exceptionally bad season has
reduced the prospective crop for this
year, and the adjustment administra-
ton decided to put the plan in effect at
once because of the existence OF car
ryover three times normal and be-
cause heavy SURPRISES might result
from normal yields in 1884 on only an
average planted acreage. They expect
to pay two-thirds Of the benefit this
fall, and the remainder next spring aft
ter the planting season.
M. l. Wilson, Montana Agricultural
College professor in recent years, but
who qualified as true dirt farmer
by demonstrating in Nebraska when he
was 81, is in charge of the wheat adj
justment program and will actively d.
rect the preliminary organization which
must take place before benefits can be
gotten to the farmers Mr.. Wilson will
work with George NJ Peck and Charles
J. Brand, administrators, and Chester
G. Davis, director OF production con-
troll
Approximately million participating
wheat farmers should be affected by
the program. The administration will
be thoroughly decentralized, with
farmers organizing their own county
committees to take charge of local de-
tails of administration. These county
groups will be the key units in the
whole scheme, and the farmers will
choose their own men to handle the
county program. Each county group
will pay its own expenses, to be
charged to each farmer according to
his allotment. The more economically
the local unit is operated, the less it
will cost the farmers in that county.
Explains Plan.
The average amount of wheat that
famers have grown in the last three
years will determine the basis of their
allotments, Mr.. Wilson says. The gov
eminent has official records on state
and county production Averages for
the crop years 1928 to 1882 will be COM
puted, and upon this average produc-
ton and acreage the allotment for
each county will be made After the
allotment is made to each county, the
county committee, chosen by farmers
themselves at community meetings,
will have each farmer list his wheat
acreage and production for the last
three years. The committee will take
an average of this, and then allot to
each farmer his proportionate share of
the amount allotted to the county.
Thus, the steps to be taken by the
wheat farmer who wishes to partici-
pate in the plan are to join his local
organization as soon as it is formed,
turn in the figures on his production
and acreage planted for the last three
years, and agree to reduce his acre. +
age by the desired amount, in no case
more than 20 per cent of his three
year average.
In return, the farmer will receive
an allotment which is the same pro-
portion to his average production as
the total wheat domestically con-
sumed in this country for food is to
the total wheat grown. This allot-
ment will be in bushels. On this al
lotted number of bushels, he will re-
ceive cash benefit from funds raised
by processing tax levied on the basis
of the relationship betweer present
price and parity price of the pre-war
period. 1t is estimated that about 30
cents per bushel will be paid, two
thirds by September Is and. the re-
third in the spring of 1884.
Is Crop Insurance,
The plan functions as crop insur-
ance up to the amount of the bene-
fit on the allotted number of bushels.
To obtain the benefit the farmer must
plant his crop in the ordinary manner,
but If it is hailed out, dried out, blown
out or otherwise destroyed by nature,
he will receive his benefit just the
same.
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