Evening star., 1936-12-09
FARM REGULATION
PLANS ANNOUNCED
Corn Acreage to Be Limited
in Eleven States Under
Modified Law.

In modified form, the agricultural
regulation outlawed by the Supreme
Court, will be applied again next year
to the IL chief corn-growing States
of the country, the A. A. A. disclosed
today in its announcement of the ten
tative 1887 $50O,000. 900 soil conserva-
ton program.
A limit on corn acreage will be es-
tablished ON farms in the parts Of
those North Central States and Kan
sas, where corn Is the major crop. II
the limit is exceeded, deduction will
be made for each acre over the limit
at the rate paid for diversion from the
general soil-depleting base.
A. A. A. officials said this new plan
is an attempt to block the natural
tendency of farmers to increase pro-
duction next year. Drought clipped
about a billion bushels from the 1886
corn yield. and the grain has scared
in price BY limiting the acreage, OFF,
cials hope to prevent price-depressing
surpluses.
If farmers follow the program,
Claude Wickard, A. A. A. chief for the
corn-belt States, said acreage would be
cut from 54,500,O0O to 54,200,000 in
1887. He predicted normal weather
would produce $500, ,0Oo, 900 bushels Of
corn, more than billion bushels over
1896.
Base Plan Similarity.
This corn-belt restriction is similar
to base plan operating this year for
cotton, tobacco, peanuts, sugar cane,
sugar beets and rice
The chief difference between the
soil conservation crop limitation and
the crop limitation of the old A. A. A.
is that emphasis now is put on reward
for the positive action of devoting a
certain amount of land to soil building
practices or crops. Under the old Or
der the payments were made for the
more negative action of keeping a cer-
tain acreage implanted to marketable
crops.
A powerful group Of American farm
ers meanwhile threatened the quiet of
the Department of Agriculture with
Aeo ANAiAAANaso iOA q NbNAAA W eAAS VA .
inal progl with its more OPEN
handed distributor Of money. These
planters are members of the American
Farm Bureau Federation. which opened
three-day convention in Los Angeles,
Calf, this morning.
Edward r. O'Neal, president of the
federation, has been in disagreement
with Secretary Wallace for two
months. When Wallace called farm
leaders to Washington to sound them
out on their stand on crop insurance,
O'Neal told the Secretary he wanted
the old agricultural adjustment and
was not interested in insurance, which
is modified sort of crop control.
The farmers chief objection to the
new program is that the rain of money
is too light, although every one of the
country's more than 100000 planters
is eligible to participate The rub
comes with the fact that there will be
no large individual benefit payments
for the raisers of the main crops.
Two Practices Required.
The program emphasizes land SAL
vation and awards money to farmers
who follow one of two practices:
l. Shift from general depicting
crops and cotton, tobacco and peanuts.
2. Build up the soil.
The man with the smallest farm in
the United States would have an op-
portunity to earn at least $40 by CO.
operation with the suggested program.
which is $40 more than the minimum
for the current year. The A. A. A.
pointed out, however, that Congress
has yet made no money available for
the program.
The program follows the pattern
cut this year, but. nevertheless, many
important changes have been made"
H. R. Tolley, adjustment administra-
tor said
Although the A. A. A. took no for
NAL poll of farmers before announc-
ing the programmes was done under
the old law-the officials tried to ft
the plan around the wishes of farm
ers as expressed at countless COM
munity meetings.