Milford chronicle., 1934-12-14
CORN-HOG PRICES
WILL Be BETTER
tContinusd from First PaosJ

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per bushel of yield estimated for
the number of acres by which the
corn land area is kept below the
1928 average. This yield for bas-
| ing payments will be the average
yield as determined by tie sigLer
and the community committeeman
for all crop land in the farm WHICH
has been in corn at least once dur
ing the last five years. Under the old
contract the rate of payment was
thirty cents per bushel. With the
new contract the signer does not set
aside a definite tract of land on the
farm as CONTRACTED acres" The
contracted acres" have been drop
ped from the 1885 contract partly
to simplify the contract and also to
permit greater flexibility in farming
operations during 1885. The payment
in 1885 will be in two installments.
the first amounting to fifteen cents
per bushel on the estimated yield
from the number of acres that are
to be shifted from corn. This pay
ment will be paid as suon as the
contract is accepted. The second in
stallment. consisting of the remain
ing twenty cents per bushel. has
the producers pro rata share of the
local administrative expenses will
be paid about January /, 1896. The
second corn benefit will be the un-
restricted use of the land shifted
from corn production. In other
words a signer may use this rented
land for growing any crop other
than corn. The old contract limited
the use of this rented land; the
1885 contract will not limit the use
of the land.
The hog provisions of the new
1885 contracts differ i'm some re-
spects from the old one. In 1885 the
signer is being asked to hold the
number of hogs produced for mar
ket from the 1885 litters instead to |
90 per cent of the adjusted average |
number produced from the. 1882 1888 |
litters instead of IS per cent as Fro
yided in the 1884 contract. This new
allotment is about one-fifth larger
than the past year. The new con-
tract carries no limitation On pur-
chases of feeder pigs by cont act
signers from other contract signers.
For complying with the hog ad-
justment program, the producer
will receive a payment of $500 per
head on the number OF hogs repre-
,ented by the 10 per cent adjust
nent. One half of this amount will
1e paid as soon as the adjustment is
accepted by the Secretary of Agri-
culture and the final payment will
,e made about January 1. 1886.
The hog payment rate is the same
IS during the past year. In 1884, the
PRODUCER received $500 per head on
5 per cent of the two year base this
vas the equivalent of $500 per
lead on the 25 per cent of the ad-
ustment. Because a smaller per-
entage of adjustment Is required
or 1885, the total hog payment per
arm will not average as high as in
934, but the producers total income
including returns from the increas-
d number of hogs which he may
aise will be larger.
In 1885, as in 1884 this cOrn-hog
djustment program will he volun-
lry and will be carried out largely
v the farmers themselves as was
one in 1884. Any corn-hog produc-
r is eligible to sign the 1885 con-
ract. From all Indications. there
ill be many more contract signers
1 1885 than in 1884. Many of the
roducers did not attend the educa-
onal meetings held throughout the
tate early in the snring of 1884 and
,r that reason did not understand
,e object and benefits derived by
gning a contract. Now since they
nderstand the contract, many have
cen coming to'the County Agricul-
lral Agent and the officers OF the
ssociation telling them that they
ant to sign the 1885 contract.
hen notices are sent out about the
meetings In January all
roducers who are interested should
tend and sign II they think 1t best
do so. No one will be compelled
sign. This corn-hOg program will
art sometime in January and at
at time all producers In the State
III receive notices of the various
eetings.