The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-11-29
Wallace Outlines
Corn-Hog Contract

Provisions of the 1885 corn-hog
contract which the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration will offer
both to signers and non-signers Of the
1884 contract were announced by
Secretary Wallace and Administered
or Davis Monday as follows:
The largest corn acreage the pro-
Queer may plant under this contract
will be 80 per cent of the average
acreage planted on his farm in 1882
33. However, the producer may hold
out of (corn) production from 10 to
80 per cent of the two-year base
average and receive corn benefit pay
ments in proportion.
The corn adjustment payment will
be IS cents per bushel of yield esti-
mated for the number of acres by
which the corn land is kept below
the 1928 average. The yield will
be the average determined by the
community committee for all crop
land in the farm which has been in
corn at least once during the last five
years.
The new contract permits the use
of the shifted" acres for growing
any crop, other than corn, for any
purpose. 1t places no limitation on
the total area devoted to cultivated
crops, or on the total acreage of any
particular crop, excepting corn.
Neither does it limit the number of
livestock, other than hogs, which
may be kept or produced by the farm
er.
The individual contract signer will
be asked to hold the number OF
market hogs he produces from 1885
litters to 80 per cent of the adjusted
average number produced from 1882
and 1888 filters, instead of Is per
cent as provided in the 1884 contract.
Purchases of feeder pigs by contract
signers from other contract slgners
will be unlimited, but purchases OF
feeder pigs from non-signers Will re-
main limited to the average number
bought during 1882 and 1888.
The contract signer will receive
hog adjustment payment OF $15 Tor
each hog included in the 10 per cent
reduction. Although this payment is
at the same rate per hog reduced as
in 1884, the total hog payment per
farm will be less because smaller
reduction will be required.
Including returns from the in
creased number of hogs the produc-
er may raise, however, his total IN
come will be larger under this con-
tract than under the old one, the
Secretary points out. Contracting
producers who do not raise the full
number of hogs allowed under tne
contract viii have more corn to sell
or for future livestock feeding.
"a burdensome surplus OF corn In
the fall of 1885 is a virtual certain
ty unless large percentage OF farm
ers agree this coming spring to hold
paintings within reasonable limits"
saws A. G. Black, chief of the ADJUST
ment Administration corn-hog sec
ton. First, the normal response TO
severe, though temporary, feed short
ages and high feed prices is that OF
planting larger-than-average corn
acreage. Second, the marked ad-
iustment in both cattle and hog
numbers since a year ago has re-
duced corn needs. Third, severe
drouth damage to many new pasture
and meadow seedlings has released
much land for planting to some other
crop. Fourth, in many localities
seed corn will be relatively cheaper
and more plentiful than number OF
other farm seeds.
| can increase in. corn productlon
would be accompanied, after year
or two, with an increased production
of livestock, particularly hogs, which
increased existing conditions DO moi
yet warrant.
"The Offering off, new contract fol
1885 was endorsed by more than two
thirds of all producers voting in the
corn-hog referendum in October
DIR. Black says.
State and national Adjustment Ad-
ministration officials will meet In
kew cities soon after Thanksgiving
to discuss the contract. It is expect.
ed that local producer meetings viii
begin in January.
CAN GET CORN LOAN