Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-08-31
PLAN CASH BENEFITS FOR
WHEAT FARMERS

Scheduled for growers who take
part in wheat adjustment program
of allotment: Cash benefits will be
paid this fall to many of the $4,000
farmers in Ohio who grow wheat,
under the plan with which the agri-
cultural adjustment administration
has decided to make the farm act
effective for wheat this year. Pay
ments will probably be made by
Sept. Is. Ohio ranks tenth in wheat
production, the records of the
United States department of agri-
culture show. In the five year per
iod, 1928-32 it produced on an av-
erage, 30,000,000 bushels, and
planted on an average. 1881, 900
acres. The wheat adjustment pro-
efits to farmers on the basis of the
percentage of their average wheat
crop for the past three years, which
is dOmstically consumed as food,
upon agreement of farmers to re-
duce their acreages. Processing
taxes are to be levied to pay the
costs.
To Determine Percentage
The plan will be to pay cash ben
efits each year on the allotment of
each farmer for 1888, 1884, 1885,
provided the farmer agrees to re-
duce his planted acreages for the
1894 and 1885 crops by a per
centage that will subsequently be
determined by the secretary of ag-
riculture, but will not be more than
20 percent of the average acreage
planted by the farmer in the last
three years. Approximately L.
100000 participating wheat farmers
should be affected by the program.
The administration will be thor
oughly decentralized, with farmers
organizing their own county COM
mittees to take charge of local de-
tails of administration. These
county groups will be the key units
in the whole scheme and the farm
ers will choose their own men to
handle the county program. Each
county group will pay its own ex-
penses to be charged to each farm
er, according to his allotment. The
more economically the local unit is
operated, the less it will cost the
farmers in that county.
The average amount of wheat
that farmers have grown in the last
three years will determine the basis
of their allotment, says M. L. Will
son, who is in charge of the wheat
adjustment program. The govern
ment has official records on state
and county production. Averages
for the crop years 1928 to 1892 will
be computed, and upon this average
production and acreage the allot-
ment for each county will be made.
After the allotment is made to each
county, the county committee will
be chosen by farmers themselves, at
a meeting to be held at the exten-
sion office at s p M, Friday, Sept.
s. Each farmer should bring
complete set of the application
blanks properly filled out if he is
thinking of participating. If any
one is uncertain whether he wants
to sign or not, he should fill out his
blanks and attend this meeting.
The committee will then allot to
each farmer his proportionate share
of the amount allotted to the coun-
ty.
Blanks may be obtained at the
extension office which is open every
day during this time. George Ever
hart, the county club agent, will be
in his office morning Of Wednes-
day, Sept. s, to meet those who have
been unable to attend any of the
meetings, at which this
work was explained. Five meetings
were held last week which were at
tended by about one-third of the
wheat farmers of the county. How
ever, only a small percent of this |
group found the plan to fit on theirs
farms, because of the difficulty of /
we'll balanced rotation |
and of protecting their land. Most |
If the farmers are also feed buyers |