Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-11-16
Allotment GROUP
Extending TIME
FOR ADJUSTMENTS
Big JoJ Ahead for Committee
Before Contracts are
Signed

me Aouhly Wheat Allotment
Committee has decided to extend
the period for correcting applica-
tons before the contracts will he
ready for signatures and the eer-
llied list OF applicants forwarded
20 the Wheat Sections at Washfnp-
ton, D. C.
me committee will allow annth-
CT week or ten days for those an
pilcan whose acreages nav have
peeh reduced by the Allotment
oohimittee an opportunity to an.
pear before them and submit ev;
uehee u a their stated acreaaes in
application were correct for fha
base period. While this NAV DELAY
Inc receipt Of the checks. It viii
give the allotment committee fur.
the time to adjust the differences
between the individual farms of
the county.
This will also give the State and
Federal Board of Review an On
portun1ty to check their own esti-
mates against the stated acreages
In the applications. Our own COM
mittee will also have further time
20 present their evidence In support
OF their claims.
The executive board, r. G. TYLER
or Homestead, Nels Olson Outlook
John Schoal of Westby and Harry
Ef1rmantraut Of Dooley, with d
clerical force Of nine assistants
have been busily engaged the pasr
Ten days checking applications and
contracts for each appli-
cant. During the past two days the
clerical force has mailed over five
Tor their signatures, and hundreds
OF applications have had TO be re-.
hundred applications to landlords
turned for slight corrections Every
correction that car possibly be
made at the central office Is taken
care OF there. Nearly two thousand
duplicate maps of farms have been
The Allotment Committee Is en-
1eavoring to accomplish the stu
5endous task of allocating to each
applicant his or her just share OF
ne county's allotment of approx
nately $4,000 and decide what
eacn applicants acreage shall be
n 1894 and 1885. The most diff.
'ult task Is that of reconciling the
Inference between the farmers
acreage and the official es.
imates during the base period.
Taking the non-cooperators' acre
&c into consideration the run over
mounts to nearly "a per cent
his. while much below adjacent
ounties. Is, nevertheless, a prob
I'm that c%onfronts the committee
is hoped that a flat cut other
han possibly for roads and fences
lay not be necessary. Some ad-
are being made where
pplicants have indicated recently
flax or some other crop was
roWn during one or more years on
acreage previously stated as
,eded to wheat.
The committee believes that
may have been some error In
Ie official acre estimates. particu-
rly for 1881. In an effort to sub
their claims a survey OF
10 farms has been undertaken to
stermine how accurate the appli-
!nfs' 1888 stated wheat acreage
e. The communities reporting to
tie seem 70 Indicate a fairly close
eek. No community has indicated
ore than an average of seven per
mt over run on the 1888 wheat
Ids.
Not all counties In the state are
err In acres. Some of the central
counties reported less OF
the same number OF
res as the Bureau of Crop estim-
-. Hence the difficulties CON
'nting the Board of Review In
lust1ng the differences between