Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-26
LISTS
TO BE PUBLISHED
Pond of University, Tells by Com
pariSOn, How Reduction
Plan Will Work.

Production statements made by Pine
county farmers in their applications
for corn-hog reduction contracts will
soon be published, according to Les
ter o. Gilmore, Emergency Agricul-
tural Agent.
required by the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration to permit farm
ers to check the accuracy of claims
made by their fellow producers. Com
plants should be made to the county
allotment committee, which will in
vestigate and adjust claims that are
found inaccurate. The county corn
hog control association will have
charge of publishing these lists and
the cost of printing. with other local
costs of administration, will be de-
Quoted from the farmers adjustment
payments.
Word from the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration indicates that
signers of corn-hog contracts. in COM
putting their 1892 or 1888 crop acre
age, may include land from which
wild hay was harvested in the year in
question. Producers will be permit
ted either to continue cutting hay on
such land in 1894 or pillow and plant
it to flax or other cash crops not
classed as basic commodities.
The Way it Works.
The price of hogs would have to
rise to ten cents per pound to COM
pensate farmers for remaining out of
the corn-hog reduction program, &C
cording to G. A. Pond of the Econom-
les Division of the University of Min
nesota Department of Agriculture.
Mr.. Pond illustrates this statement
by showing how the program would
apply to a typical southern Minnesota
hog farm of 100 acres, 80 acres of
which is planted to corn each year to
be used in fattening 124 hogs to a
market weight of 225 pounds. The
average yield of this corn is about 35
bushels per acre.
Under the reduction plan, this farm
Ier would reduce his corn acreage
one-fifth or 16 acres. and his hog pro-
duction one-fourth or 81 hogs. At 80
cents per buShel on the yield of Is
acres, his corn adjustment payment
would amount to $16S. His hog ad-
justment payment of SIS per head on
three-fourths of the average number
of hogs he raised for market during
the previous two years az 124 head)
or SO head would amount to $465.
Due to the difference between the
25 per cent reduction in hogs and the
20 per cent reduction in corn acreage,
he also would have about 147 bushels
of corn not needed for feeding, which
at 35 cents per bushel would be worth
S51.45. Adjustment payments and
value of the surplus corn combined
would give total of $684.45.
The total weight of the SO hogs
raised would be 20,925 pounds. At
four cents per pound, these hogs would
bring a total of 1897. Adding the
| $6S4.45 would increase the farmers
income who reduces his production to
$1.521.45.
If this farmer raised his usual
corn to feed them, he would have a
total of 27,90O pounds of hogs, which
at four cents per pound would bring a
total of $1,116. This is $4O5.45 less
than he would receive if he joined the
reduction program.
If the price of hogs should rise to
ten cents per pound, his total receipts
under the adjustment plan would be
$2,776.95 (20,925 times 10 cents plus
$6S4.45). If he did not join the re-
duction program, his total income
would be $3.50 (27,9OO times 1O).
Since both amounts are practically
the same, his only gain by joining the
reduction program, if the price of
hogs were ten cents per pound, would
be the saving in labor and miscel-
laneous expenses brought about by the
reduction plan.