Evening star., 1934-12-02
Last Years 40 Per Cent
Slash to Be Modified to
rs Per Cent Trim.
$4,000, ,000- BALE YIELD
FORECAST FOR HARVEST
Production Declared Likely to
Kite Carryover-Bankhead
Act Not Popular.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, December Viewing
with favor a continued program OF
regulation for the South's chief money
CROP leaders in the Cotton Belt agree
in principle with the proposal Of
Secretary Wallace for a reduction In
the 1885 output of the staple.
A poll today disclosed sentiment
among the leaders in sympathy with
Wallace's call for producers to hold
the crop reduction to 25 per cent OF
the 1928-1932 average, although some
pointed out it would mean an in.
crease over this years output.
Under the Governments control
program, the 1884 crop was cut by
40 per cent.
A definite stand in the proposal Of
the Secretary of Agriculture is ex-
pected to be taken at meeting OF
the Southern Association Of Commis-
sioners of Agriculture at New Or.
leans December 8.
Bankhead Act Opposed.
Opinion favorable to the Wallace
plan was expressed by the cotton trade
at New Orleans, but opposition was
general to the continuation of the
Bankhead act, to be voted on Decem.
Der IA.
Seth P. Storrs, Alabama commis-
sioner of agriculture, said he was in
full sympathy" with the Is per cent
cut. Naturally it will increase acre
age in Alabama. where we reduced 40
per cent this year, but if Washington
believes the price can be maintained
or improved with 25 per cent reduc.
tion. We are satisfied" Storrs said.
general manager Of that States cot
ton cooperative association, said:
Il believe the Is per cent reduction
in 1885 will be met with favor on the
part of the farmers. They are heartily
in accord with the plan as far as I
can learn. We live in hopes that it
will improve prices, certainly it will
do no harm"
Would Hold 1o-cent Level.
E. D. White, chairman of the Cotton
Allotment Board in Arkansas, said
farmers in recent meetings had over
whelmingly voted for a Is per cent
reduction If it takes that to main.
tain the price in 1885 around the To-
cent level.
''Of course" White added, farmers
would like to plant all they can, but
they expressed themselves as willing
to cut to whatever percentage neces-
sary to see that the price does not
fall below 10 cents"
A crop of around 100000 bales
was predicted by G. C. Henry. gen.
eral manager of the Mid-South Cotton
Growers Association, who estimated
the reduction would mean approxi-
mately 25 per cent more cotton next
year over 1884. Henry said he believed
the Wallace plan would please the
farmers.
"A good move in the right direc-
ton" was the way Gov. Ibra C..
Blackwood of South Carolina greeted
the proposition.
Carryover Is Cited.
Commissioner of Agriculture o. e.
Van Cleave of Tennessee said from
present indications of a carryover
with so few outlets, America will Of
ACSCooi1y DC lOlSCu W Cu1 CdA pIOOuC-
ton if she is to receive a good price
for cotton Whatever reduction Is
necessary should provide for certain
inequalities now found in the opera
ton of the program"
G. c. Adams, Georgia commissioner
of agriculture, said:
"A reduction of 25 per cent of the
1928-l932 average allows too much
acreage unless We have some baleage
restriction to supplement the acreage
restriction. Farmers will spread fertil-
izer on their fields and hike production
without a baleage restriction, such as
the Bankhead bill. For the first time
the farmer has sat at the banquet table
in Washington with the tariff protected
manufacturers of the East. under the
new agricultural policies. I think the
plan to increase parity payments Is
a good idea"
Tom Cheek, president of the Okla.
homa Farmers Union, said:
From the outlook at present, 7
think there will be a demand for the
amount which would be produced
under the Is per cent reduction plan.
I know that if the Government keeps
on making mattresses and gives a
cotton mattress to all the people who
are sleeping on shucks there will
be market for the cotton"