The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-12-14
Corn and Hog Contracts
Are Ready for Signing
Stearns Co. Committee to Be
Named Soon-County
Agent In Charge

corn ana nOg producers or
Stearns county, and of other Min
nesota counties will soon be sign
ing contracts for the reduction OF
their corn and hog output for 1884,
according to word received from
Andrew Boss, University Farm, St.
Paul, in charge of the Minnesota
activities of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration of the
federal government.
Late last week Secretary Henry
A. Wallace and Administrator Geo.
N. Peek advised Mr.. Boss that
they had approved the contract
form to be used by corn-hog pro-
ducers. The forms will not be in
the hands of farmers, however, be-
fore Dec. Is. Mr.. Wallace and
Mr.. Peek also announced the APP
pointment of state corn and hog
committees in six mid-western
states. The Minnesota committee
is made up Of Mr.. Boss (chairman),
Harry Muir, farmer, Faribault
county, and Henry Bolstad, farmer,
Lac qui Parle county. This COM
mittee will name temporary county
committees to handle the prelimi-
nary campaign of education and
will keep in touch with the county
committees through county agents
and other representatives of the
states Agricultural Extension Ser
vice, who will serve in the differ
lent counties in an advisory capac-
lily. The actual administration and
adjustment work of the program in
each county, however, will be
handled-as in the case of the
wheat reduction campaign-by a
countrywide association of corn
hog producers, to be made up of
those signing the contracts.
The maximum payments, accord
ing to the plan, will total $3.50, 700,
900. The offer of cooperation will
be open to all corn-hog farmers,
but the campaign will be carried on
primarily in 1900 mid-western coun-
ties.
A two-year base period, from Dec.
1, 1881, to December 1, 1888, for
both corn and hogs has been fixed.
The reduction required in the corn
acreage for 1884 will he not less
than 20 per cent of base period av-
erage, and reduction payments will
be made on not more than 80 per
cent of base period average acres
The reduction required in pig lit
tiers narrowed and hogs produced
for market from such filters in 1884
will be rs per cent below the base
period average. -:
Corn reduction payments will be
made at the rate of 30 cents a
bushel, less local administrative
costs, on the estimated acre yield
of the contracted acreage, based on
the estimated production of that
acreage for the five-year period
from 1929 through 1888. Fifteen
cents of this payment will be paid
as soon as possible after the &C
ceptance of the contracts by the
secretary of agriculture, and the
remaining fifteen cents, less ad-
administrative costsison or after Nov
Is, 1894, upon evidence of the full
filment of the.contract.
Hog reduction payments Of IS per
head, on rs per cent Of the aver
age number, of hogs marketed from
litters narrowed by the producers
sows during the base period will be
made. Two dollars will be paid as
soon as possible after the con-
tracts acceptance, 81 about Nov Is,
1884, and the remaining 81, less a
share of the local administrative ex-
pense, about Feb. /, 1885.
| The contract is a simple four
page form, with the first signature
by the producer constituting an ap-
plication.
The temporary corn-hog organi-
cation committee. which will get
the Agricultural Adjustment Adj
ministration's work under way in
Stearns county, as announced by
! the state committee, is as follows: