The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-01-02

Meets Open
January 18th
Series of Sign-up Meetings
To Be Held In Stearns
County
SCHEDULE NEXT WEEK
Contracts For 1867 Carry
Several New Features
Payment Same

During the week of January 18th
series of sign-up meetings will be
held throughout Stearns County at
which time applications for con-
tracts for the corn-hog program of
1936-37 will be taken.
The entire procedure of taking
applications bringing out the edu-
cational information and the hold
ing of community elections will all
take place in one meeting. In pre-
vious years three different meet
ings were held for this purpose. In
order to save time and get the pro-
gram under way more rapidly all
of the work will be completed in
the one single meeting. The sched-
ule of these meetings will be an
nounced this week.
Several new features in connec-
ton with the new corn-hog prd-
gram are worthy of the attention
of the corn-hog producers. The pay
ment schedule for corn for 1886
will be identically the same as for
1885, namely 35c a bushel on the
appraised yield for the number of
acres that the producer takes out
Of production. Anywhere from 10
30 per cent of the base acreage can
be taken out of production. For
1887 the maximum reduction that
can be called for will be 25 per cent
as far as corn is concerned and the
payments will be at least 30 cents
bushel.
The hog payments for the new
contract will be very similar to the
payments for 1885. A producer with
hog base of 80 hogs will be re-
quired to produce at least 40 hogs
and may produce up to 100 per cent
of the base or the full 80 hogs. In
other words no reduction for 1886
is required. The hog payments will
be at the rate of SLIPS a hog for the
entire number Of hogs in the base.
In other words a man with a base
of 80 would receive 500 for the
hog payments. Deductions will be
made at the rate of $3.50 per head
for each hog that the producer
falls short of reaching the so per
cent production. In other words if
his base is 80 and he produces only
"a the reduction would be 6 x $3.50
per head because he was short of
producing the required 40. Like
wise, should he produce more than
the maximum of 30, deduction of
$500 a head would be made for all
that he produces over the maxi
mum of 80 in the example just cit
ed.
Corn and hog bases will be es-
tablished in 1886 by appraisal in
accordance with standards pre-
scribed by the Secretary. This will
permit the assignment Of equitable
bases to all producers, regardless
Of whether or not they have prev
iously participated in corn-hog adj
justment programs. Under the pre-
vious two corn-hog adjustment con-
tracts, percentage reductions were
made from the historic production
base. This method proved effective
in an emergency situation when
the immediate aim was to remove
price-depressing surpluses. The
purpose Of establishing bases by
appraisal, rather than retaining
the historic production bases, are:
(1) to encourage participation,
since the more equitable bases will
make the program attractive to a
large number of producers, CD to
permit the use of more balanced
cropping systems and livestock
production, (3) to enable new pro-
ducers to participate in the pro-
gram.
The county agents office at st.
Cloud who will again take an ac-
tive part in handling the corn-hog
program also states that in the new
contract, corn for silage will be in
cluded in the corn base. In check
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