White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-06-21
Corn-Hog Contracts
Ready For Growers
Board Urges stragglers to Complete
Their Records
(By w. w. skuse, County AGENT

The board of directors of the Benton
County Corn-Hog Control Association
has just recently met in the county
extension office in KenneWick to take
care Of further details in relation to
the completion OF this work.
The board consists of John Ferguson,
president, representing the KenneWlck,
Richland, Finley and Hover districts;
S. " Tanning, vice-presldent, repre-
senting the Priest Rapids Valley dis
tricts; and j. S. Albin, representing
the Prosser, Grandview, Whitstran,
Benton City ana Kiona districts. Harry
Forsyth, county treasurer, is acting as
treasurer for this association, as ne
did for the wheat association, and w.
w. Skuse, county agent, is secretary.
In addition to these men, there are SIX
other farmers in different parts OF
the county who are serving as per-
manent community committeeman
Out of 242 members Of the assocl-
alton there are % who have not yet
given all the information relative TO
their contracts, and these men nave
peen strongly urged to complete their
records, for after the county quota
Of hogs is once fixed by the state board
OF review it will be impossible to get
any further increase in the quota num-
Der.
At the present time contracts have
been put in complete order as we'll as
the other forms which contain lntor-
nation for all members, except the 40
Listing sheets have been sent III TO
Pullman giving all details. Meanwhile
County Agent Skuse, acting IN MS Ca
pacity as secretary of the association
is working with the different perman-
ent community committeeman on the
matter of the cerlification OF each anc
every contract. In many instances Il
is necessary for the committeeman o.
the secretary to cau on hog grower
| to clear up some question or piece O
! information.
AS soon as the community commit
tees have certified the various con-
tracts they are to be referred to che
board OF directors who also serve a.
the county allotment committee. Inc
county allotment committee will tner
have the task OF certifying the con
| tracts in their turn, passing on eVl
dence, making any adjustments neces
sary in numbers of hogs to be allowed
| in the payments to be made 10 I'M
growers. The state board OF review
will then determine the number
hogs on which payment will be allowed
in the county.
The contracts will then be draw
up on this basis in triplicate and pre-
sented at meetings of the growers TO
their approval, at which time the con
tracts will be signed and be ready t
be sent in to Washington, DC, 10
acceptance AS soon as the contract
are thereupon accepted by the Corn
Hog section of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration at Washingto
a check will be sent to the treasure
who in turn will issue checks to tf
growers.
, This will be the first payment, an
!; will be at the rate of $500 per no
produced for market for rs per Ger
) of the growers average production
3 1882 and 1885, and is not a paymel
for producing rs per cent less nos
2 than he normally would, but is
I partly compensate him for the IL
: creased price on market hogs durlf
r the transition period in which PR
g duction is being decreased to domest
S needs. There is processing tax
1925 a hundred weight and While
surplus of hogs still exists this tt
tends to decrease the price paid Il
farmer, hence the benefit paymen