The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-01-02
Give Provisions of
1936-1937 Corn and
Hog Contract in Jan,

plicationS will be offered to Wash
ington farmers in January, F. E.
Balmer, state extension director,
has been notified by the Agricultur-
al Administration.
The new contract follows closely
the recommendations made by pro-
misrepresentation and state ag-
ricultural specialists in conference
early last month in Washington,
MIR. Balmer said. Details of the
contract soon will be discussed at
a meeting of state corn-hog Off
Gals, and will be fully explained at
local meetings which will be held
during the application sign-up cam
paign in January.
The two-year contract, effective
as of December 1, 1885, requires that
the signer produce for market in
1896 at least so percent Of his mar
ket hog base and not more than 100
percent of his base if he is to re-
ceive the maximum hog adjustment
payment. The cooperating producer
also must plant to corn at least 25
percent of his corn base next year
but not more than a percentage
which is within the permitted OPP
tional range of 20 to 80 percent of
his corn base.
q Corn. and hog bases under the
new program will be established by
appraisal by community committee
men in accordance with standards
prescribed by the secretary. This
undertaking, new to commodity adj
justment programs, is designed to
permit the assignment of equitable
bases to all producers regardless of
whether or not they have previous
ly participated in corn-hog pro-
grams or farmed previous to 1886.
An additional major change from
1886 contract is the provision that
an acreage equal to the land held
out of corn production, known as
the adjusted corn acreage" un-
der the new contract, be devoted to
soil-improving or erosion-prevent-
ing crops. The area used for these
crops must be in addition to the
acreage normally devoted to such
uses on the farm.
For complying with the hog adj
justment provisions of the 1886
81 contract, the participating pro-
Queer will receive his entire hog
payment as soon as possible after
final compliance has been checked
after the close of each year. The
1886 rate will be at SIPS per head
for each hog in the base, less the
pro rata share of the local admins
trative expenses. Deductions will be
made at the rate of $3.50 per head
if the producer fails to raise so per-
cent of his base hog numbers and
$500 per head if he raises more than
his assigned base numbers.
Corn adjustment payments in
1886 will be made in two INSTALL
ments, about August and Deem
Der 81, at the rate of 35 cents a
bushel multiplied by the appraised
yield and the number of adjusted
acres. Deductions will be made for
local administrative expenses as
heretofore.
The rates of adjustment and rates
of payments for 1887 will be an
nounced by the secretary by Nov.
ember 80, 1896, and will be deter
mined from the outlook for supplies
and prices at that time. A con-
tract signer, however, will not be re-
quired to plant more than 25 per-
cent of his corn base nor make an
adjustment below IS percent of his
base in 1897. To secure the maxi
mum hog payment in 1887, the
signer will not be required to pro-
duce more than so percent nor ask
ed to produce less than IS percent
of the assigned market base. The
rate of payment on corn in 1887
will not be less than 80 cents per
bushel and the rate on hogs will
not be less than $1.25 per head on
the number in the base.
The new corn-hog contract is to
be in full force from December 1,
1885 through November 80, 1887, UNI
less the secretary: ~ terminates
all corn-hog contracts with respect
to 1897 by an announcement not
later than November 80, 1886, or
(2) approves an application made
by contract signer not later than
April l, 1897, for termination Of his
original contract, or (3) terminates
a contract because Of non-compi-
ance.
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