Evening star., 1936-12-03
FARM PROGRAM
CHANGES SLIGHT
Wallace Sees Revision OF
81 Original A. A. A. Impos-
= sibIe for 1887.
ID the Associated Press.

ID the Associated Press.
y Secretary Wallace predicts the 1887
Federal farm program will diner only
slightly from that in effect this sea-
con.
- He told his press conference yester-
day that rules and regulations under
which farmers would be paid $780,
3of0 900 would be announced on Decem-
ber IS, adding it would be impossible
10 revise the original A. A. A." for
the 1887 program. as asked recently by
farm leaders called here to discuss crop
Insurance.
/. Wallace also outlined these coming
developments:
s. A report between December 20 and
rs to the President on an all-risk crop
insurance plan limited to wheat the
.1lrst year.
4 First meeting of the National Ten
. ancy Commission here December 16 to
start work on a report on farm tenant
problems and possible solutions, asked
by the President before February 1.
- Wallace said demands Of some farm
leaders for revival of the old A. A. A.
production control plan"-invalidated
by the Supreme Court-were being
studied, but that the 1887 program
would stress "soil conservation" instead
of crop control.
- "Change or So" Made.
= He said the program next year would
have about the same differences from
the one this year as between the 1886
and 1887 automobile models"
I'VE have made a change or SO IN
the carburetor" he said with laugh.
The Secretary said the prospect OF
surplus crop yields were soaring some
farmers who think ahead"
Reviewing his recent tour, Wallace
said he wished he could take "the
thousand wealthiest families in the
u. S." to see the farm tenant families
who were on relief and were loaned
Federal funds to make them self
supporting.
Il wish everybody could see these
people and talk with them," he added
"They have been loaned few hum
dred dollars to buy a plow, a mule
and a few other things. They are
paying the money back and looking
ahead"
Sees Shift Logical.
Wallace said shift of the Resettle-
ment Administration to a place In the
Agriculture Department would be q
logical move.
Asserting that 80 per cent Of the
emergency Federal funds used by Re-
settlement had gone for relief Of farm
ers, Wallace said this was "agricul-
tural work and to make success OF
It, is not a job for the social worker
type, but for the county agent type.
Directors of tenant programs, he
added, should know farming, what
to pay for a plow and crops to plant. .
Earlier in the day Will w. Alexander
selected by Rexford G. Tugwell to Sue
ceed him as resettlement head, told
reporters he believed successful farm
tenant program could be developed
but he added this could not be &C
complished by magic"
Alexander later issued statement
which said 42.1 per cent of all farms
In this country were tenant operated
or 2,865, ,155 out Of 6,812,3 He saio
tenancy was lowest in New England
with about per cent, ranged near A
per cent in the corn belt and reached
height Of about rs per cent in some
parts OF the cotton belt.
Alexander said not all tenants would
be able to succeed as owners II given
farms and loaned money, but added
that many who appeared "lazy and
shiftless" would succeed.