Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-03
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istration estimates that the expense
will average about two cents per
bushel. The deduction for local ex-
pense per bushel will be relatively
much smaller if all of the wheat
growers of the county join in the as
ISOLATION.
Benefit Payments.
Under the governments plan, CO.
operating farmers will receive two
thirds of their benefit payments with
in a short time after the contracts
are signed. In other words, they will
receive an initial payment this fall
of 20 cents bushel on their allot-
ment. The balance, less cost of local
administration, will be paid next
spring, after their fields have been
inspected to see that they rdeuced
their acreage in accordance with the
terms of their contract. The amount
which growers must agree to reduce
their acreage next year will not eX-
coed 20 per cent of their average
acreage for the last years. The
exact percentage of reduction will be
specified by Secretary Wallace.
Each county's allotment is based
on its average yearly production dur
ing the 5-year period above men
toned. Since it is estimated that
"a per cent of the average annual
wheat crop is domestically consumed,
the allotment for any county equals
"a per cent of its 5-year average pro-
duction. Likewise, the allotment to
an individual wheat grower will be
approximately "a per cent of his
average yearly wheat production for
the three years, 1880, 1881, and 1892.
AS the 5-year average, on which
county allotments are based, may diff
fer somewhat from the 3-year average
upon which the individual allotments
depend, adjustments may have to be
made.
In applying for a contract, each
farmer, therefore, must submit figures
showing the acres planted and the
amount of wheat produced on his
farm for each of the years 1880, 1881,
and 1882, and his acreage for 1888.
By compiling these records now and
having the figures ready, farmers who
intend to sign up agreements can
speed up the governments adjustment
program.
In the wheat statistics and allot-
ments issued by the government,
county allotments are assigned to sc
Minnesota counties. Cook county is
omitted because it raises no wheat.
The states total allotment is 11,166,-
S29 bushels. Five-year average fig
ures for the state are 1,425, 400 acres
seeded to wheat, with an average
yield of 14.5 bushels, and a total aver
age annual production of 26,679,5O
bushels.
During the past week, the wheat
administration at Washington has
cleared up one question which has
puzzled farmers not a little; namely,
what rights tenant farmers have with
regard to benefit payments. M. L.
Wilson, chief of the wheat produc-
ton section, says all growers who
plant or produce wheat for the 1893
crop may receive adjustment pay
ments even though they are tenants
and may move this fall. Mr.. Wilson
continues: THE problem is fairly
simple where tenants do not change
on a rented farm. The landlord and
tenant agree to reduce acreage and
the benefit payment is divided be-
tween them according to the share
each gets of the crop. The big prob
lem arises when the tenant is moving
from the farm this fall, as some are
already planning. Here the payment
for 1898 must be divided between the
landlord and the tenant who farmed
the land in 1888. The allotment right
is attached to the land and the owner
must see that succeeding tenants will
follow the contract. The owner re-
ceives a share each year, the remain
der going to the tenant who owns the
crop upon which payment is based"