The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-10-31
Farmers Vote Corn
Hog Control 7 To !
Stearns County Farmers Cast 10
to Ballot-Pork Production
Next Year $3.50 More

Returns as high as 60 to were
sweeping the corn-hog allotment
program Of the AAA into almost
supreme favor as county agents in
Central Minnesota began counting
votes cast in the general balloting
Saturday.
Stearns county farmers showed
heavy favor to the allotment pro-
gram, the vote averaging 10 to in
the early returns, announcement
of County Agent Ed Lenzmeier in
dictated. He said the vote would be
about 1880 to 1876 for the present
setup.
AAA officials expressing delight
at the overwhelming endorsement
of a 1896 corn-hog control pro-
gram in a nationwide farm refer
endum, made plans to increase
pork production next year.
They indicated the increase
would be Is to 80 percent over this
year. Present high prices Of pork
have been much under discussion
recently, with critics of the new
deal stressing them, and AAA Of
ficials saying that the shortage Of
hogs was caused by the drought,
not by the AAA policy Of controlled
production.
While the aim will be to increase
production Secretary Wallace was
quick to assert that efforts will be
made to avoid excessive over-pro-
duction in subsequent years"
Farmers in 48 states voted in the
referendum Saturday. Incomplete
returns recently showed that 317,-
994 favored an adjustment program
in 1886 to 45,178 opposed. These to-
tails included farmers who signed
contracts to control their produc-
ton in return for government bene-
fit payments and others who did
not
Commencing the producers for
their favorable vote, Wallace said:
"They realize their triple duty:
to consider the consumer; to the
cause of soil conservation, and to
the maintenance of a fair income
for themselves"
Chester c.. Davis, AAA admins
traitor, said the early returns indi-
Gated the total vote might exceed
the 579,716 ballots cast last year.
He also asserted the farmers
did not make a political issue OF
the question of whether there
should be a 1885 program, saying
they had voted economies, not
politics"
There was much speculation as
to what effect the referendum
would have on the 1885 political
campaign. Some Republicans have
been hammering away at AAA as
"un American RECOMMENDATION"
while others have shown dispos-
ition to refrain from attacking this
new deal policy strongly, or even
to favor some OF 1t.
In analysing me first returns,
Davis called attention to the fact
that non-contract signers voted
against program last year where
as this year they voted nearly two
to one in favor.
Taking the preliminary returns
as a final indication Of the out
come, Davis and his aides immed-
lately started work on the new
four-year corn-hog contracts ex-
pected to be offered producers.
Washington announcement OF
a 1885 government corn loan was
believed to be imminent Wednes-
day as officials rushed tabulation
of official returns from Saturdays
national corn-hog referendum on
1886 production control program.
There appeared no change in
tentative decision to offer 1885
loan of As cents bushel to ad-
justment contract signers, and 1t
was said authoritatively the loan
rate would be announced by
Thursday.
Official sources said there re-
NAMED a possibility that a 40 cent
loan might be offered.
Announcement Of the final offic-
ial vote in the referendum was
expected to appear about the same
time as the corn-loan rate.
Unofficial returns to date gave:
For a new program .--..-.----725,S7o