The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-06
FARMERS Will RUN
ADJUSTMENT PLAN
IN own LOCALITIES
County Committees Will Be
Fundamentally important,
c. f. Monroe Says
SUCCESS RESTS ON THEM
Will Not Name BurIeigh Group
Until Specific instructions
Arc Received
SUCCESS RESTS ON THEM

North Dakota wheat farmers who
decide to accept the plan of the farm
adjustment administration will man
age their own county organizations, it
Is announced by G. F. Monroe, direc-
tor OF the extension service of the
state agricultural college.
Although there will be national and
state offices. the county groups will be
fundamentally important, Monroe
says. They are the key units in the
whole program and the administra-
tors of the plan frankly admit that its
success depends upon the cooperation
of the farmers of each county in
handling their own organization. The
county organizations will be built up
by the wheat farmers themselves"
Burleigh county's committee has
not yet been named, according to H.
o. Putnam, county agricultural agent.
Putnam says no committee will be Sc
lected until definite instructions are
received from administrators Of the
plan.
Upon direction, the county agent
or any other man who may be ap-
pointed to handle organization work
for each district will take the initia-
tive In calling preliminary meetings
in the local communities. County or
CARNATIONS and representative COM
mittees will develop from these first
meetings. with the farmers assuming
active direction themselves, accord
ing to Monroe.
The county and local associations Of
participating growers will gather the
records of each farmer who elects
to come under the plan. They will
take the county allotment, which will
be computed in Washington on the
basis of the official records for pro-
duction during the last five years. and
will direct the individual assignment
Of this county allotment on basis
Of each mans average production dur
ing the last three years. Benefit pay
mentS will be made according to the
Qualifications made by the local COM
mittees.
The cost of local county admins
tration will be carried by the partici-
pating growers themselves. each share
being estimated on the basis of the
individual farmers allotment.
The adjustment plan, under which
wheat farmers who agree to reduce
acreage In 1884 and 1885 will receive
cash benefits In 1888, 1894, and 1885,
is not price-fixing measure, nor does
it place restrictions on a farmer In
selling his own crop, or on any ele-
vator man or grain professor In buy
ing or selling wheat, M. L. Wilson,
wheat administrator says.
May Sell To Anybody
The farmer who comes under the
adjustment program can sell wheat
to anybody he wishes, for any price
he wishes, at any time he wishes.
There are no strings" to the con-
tract. The farmer reduces his acre.
age If reduction is required, and gets
the payments as provided in his con-
tract, but the sales Of the crop he does
raise are not under regulation.
Wilson points out that the amount
to be paid on the allotment of each
farmer Is fixed at the beginning Of
the season. It is the same per bushel
OF wheat for every farmer, regardless
Of when he sells his crop or what he
gets for 1t, or what kind Of wheat it
Is.
In calculating the payment for each
year, the administration will attempt
to make the payment sufficient to
bring the total return to the farmers
on his crop up to the point where it
will have as much buying power as it
did in the pre-war period, l909-l914.
However, II one farmer sells his
wheat for certain price, and his
neighbor sells for more or for less,
this will not affect the amount Of the
benefit payment Of either. The pay
ment Is fixed for each year and re-
mains at that figure during that year.