The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-01-17
Leaders Explain 1895
Corn-Hog Program
Project win Begin In Stearns
County Monday, January
Twenty-first

Provisions Of the 1885 corn-hog
adjustment contract and the plan
OF presenting 1t to farmers were
explained to state extension work.
ers and state corn-hog committee
men Of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa,
the Dakotas, and Montana, in q
conference at Minneapolis, Deem
Der 20 to n.
These workers, In turn, will ex-
plain the program to the county
agricultural agents and county
corn-hog committees OF their res
pective states, who will conduct the
educational and sign-up work Of
the program in their respective
counties. In Minnesota, the pro-
Queer meetings will probably not
begin until some time after jan
uary is.
The 1885 contract consists Of a
single sheet, printed on both sides,
and a supplementary booklet con-
tanning "a administrative rulings.
In general, 1t is similar to the 1924
corn-hog contract, except in the
following respects:
1. The yield on which the corn
adjustment payment will be based
will be the ten-year average yield
Of all land on the farm which has
been planted to corn at least once
during the past five years. The
corn adjustment payment under
the 1884 contract was based on the
ten year average yield of the par
ticular piece of LAND ACTUALLY
REQUIRED from corn production.
2. The 1885 contract permits the
producer to use the land he shifts
from corn production for produc-
ing any crop except corn. The 1884
contract placed many restrictions
on the use Of the contracted
acres"
8. The 1888 contract requires
the producer to reduce his 1895
corn acreage only ten per cent from
the average acreage he planted to
corn in 1928. The 1894 contract
required at least 20 per cent re-
duction from the same base acre
age. In 1885, as in 1884, the produc-
C1 may NJ hS WAShCo, fSouCC lllS
acreage as much as 30 percent, for
which he will receive a payment.
A. The 1895 corn adjustment
payment will be IS cents a bushel
on the appraised yield per acre,
compared with 30 cents a bushcl il,
1895.
5. The signer of the 1895 con-
tract is required to reduce the
number of hogs he produces for
market from his 1885 filters only
10 per cent from the average num-
Der he produced for market from
his 1928 Filters. The 1884 contract
required him to reduce his produc-
ton IS per cent from mis- 1928
base. The 1885 contract signer will
be permitted to buy an unlimited
number Of feeder pigs from other
corn-hog contract signers, but will
be restricted in buying feeder pigs
from non-signers to the average
NUMBER he bought in 1929.
6. The 1885 hog adjustment pay.
ment will be $500 a head on the
number reduced 30 per cel.t of the
base production). The 1894 contract
payment was at the same rate pei
hog reduced, but because of the
larger reduction required, the total
adjustment payment received by
each contract signer In 1884 was
larger than it will be in 1885. TIC
offset this difference, the 1885 con-
tract signer will have a larger
number of hogs to market.
7. Farmers signing the 1885 con.
tract will be eligible to take part
in any government corn loan pro-
gram that may be adapted foI
1885.
The 1895 corn-hog program will
begin in Stearns county on Monday
January 81. On that day, all of the
last years committeeman and mem.
bers Of the Allotment Committee
will be called together to go over
the new program. Meetings will be
scheduled from that day until close
to the end of January to acquaint
producers with the details of the
contract. Signing of the applica.
lions for contract will begin around
January 30 or 81.