The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-05-31
Greatest DrOuth Relief Plan in
History Launched in Min
nesOta This Week
RESTRICTIONS TAKEN OFF
Redwood, Renville Counties in
Secondary Dr0uth Area in
Classification

Secondary Drouth Area in
Classification
With rain still sorely needed as the
temperature runs to the high nineties
and early hundreds each day, many
farmers in the west section Of the
county are again forced to look to the
government for relief feed and seed.
Ten thousand pounds of sudan
grass seed, $4,000 pounds Of millet,
$50 bushels Of seed corn and two car
loads of oats were secured for the
county Monday by George A. Barnes,
county attorney and Nate H. Bovee,
county agent, who conferred with A.
T. Forsberg, director Of drouth relief,
in St. Paul.
Feed grain will be distributed at
once but the seed will not be issued
until rains make it advisable to do
further seeding. Unless rain is forth
coming, seeding would only be q
waste of seed.
Mr.. Bovee received a wire Thurs
day morning stating that contracted
acres under the wheat and corn re-
duction program are released for the
seeding of forage crops or can be
pastured. They are not to be plant
ed to fodder corn, however, although
fodder corn can be planted on fields
where other crops have dried out or
blown out.
The seed corn and oats will be ship
ped to Belview and Milroy and the
remainder will be sent to Vesta for
distribution. A list Of farmers act.
ually in need Of help is being compil-
ed.
Lyon and Yellow Medicine counties
as well as others to the north and
west have been designated as emer-
gency areas but the situation in Red
wood and Renville counties is regard
ed as slightly less serious and they
are among the secondary list.
The greatest drouth relief program
in American history will get under
way at once in Minnesota and other
drouth stricken states, with the fed
eral and state governments co-operat-
ing in drive to aid farmers by pur-
chase at fixed prices of cattle for
which they have no feed.
High lights of the plan are:
Farmers in drouth districts who
have no feed for livestock may con-
tract with the government to sell
their cattle to its Surplus Relief cor
poration.
The prices are to range from 81 to
500 per animal.
Both beef and dairy cattle are in
cluded.
Cattle that are diseased or too en-
aciated from lack of feed to be worth
much are to be slaughtered on farm.
For these animals, to be condemned
by appraisers, the federal price will
be from 81 to SIP head.
The remaining cattle will be mark
eted by the government or shipped to
some locality where there is feed for
them.
For each farmer who contracts
with the government and sells his
cattle, the AAA will set aside sub.
sistence herd of few animals, for
milking or breeding or botn.
These animals will be returned to
the farmer and be his property but
the government will retain title to
them under a mortgage that cannot
be foreclosed.
That safeguard is provided to pre-
vent the other creditors Of the farmer
in question from attaching his SUBJ
sistence herd and taking it away
from him.
In return for all this, the farmers
contracting for the emergency sale of
starving cattle must sign agreements
also to keep their herds so reduced
that the number Of cows and heifers
January /, 1886, shall not exceed 80
per cent of the average that they
owned in 1882 and 1888.
The schedule Of prices to be paid is
as follows: Cattle two years old or
more, SIP to $40 per head; one to two
years old, $40 to SIS; calves and heif-
ers less than one year, 81 to So.
As virtually all the drouth suffer-
ing cattle are mortgaged, it is stip-
ulated that the consent of the mort
gage or note holder must be obtain
ed, in accordance with the law, be-
fore the animals can be sold to the
government.
The prices, aside from those speci-
fed for the condemned animals, are
to be fixed by appraisers in accord
ance with the weight and condition Of
the animals.