Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-07
Soil Program Kept And Sup
olemented By Dual Provisions
Continued from Page One.l

purpose of the new Farm Act. It seeks
to give farmers a larger and steadier
share in the National income. Spe-
officially the Act affords farmers the
following measures of income protec-
ton:
Payments to farmers who cooperate
in the AAA program.
Additional parity payments, if at
some future time funds over and
above the present authorization of
$50O,00O,O00 annually should be made
available.
National acreage allotments that
encourage paintings in line with
domestic demand, foreign markets,
and ample carry-overs, and that avoid
sudden and extreme acreage shifts.
Storage loans to enable farmers to
carry over unusually large supplies
until the market needs them and they
can be sold at a fair price.
Marketing quotas, together with the
storage loans, to hold unusual sur
pluses out of glutted markets and to
protect the value of commodities.
Provisions in the new Act are de-
signed to give additional protection to
emall farmers, to define the basis for
dividing payments between tenants
and landlords, and to apportion funds
among the different commodities.
They prescribe specific increases in
all soli-conservation payments up to
5000. The smaller the payment, the
greater the increase provided. The eff
feet of these provisions is to take
sums sufficient to make possible the
increases in small payments from the
unds available for all payments be-
ere the money available is distribut-
I'd.
PAYMENTS are to be divided between
landlord and tenant in proportion as
they share in the crop, except that
payments for soil-building practices
are divided in the proportion in which
.ndlord and tenant contribute to car
wing out the practices.
Funds available for payments will.
be divided among crops on the gen
vral basis of their average acreage
I'd average value in the past, and
ne extent of the adjustments being
:equired.
The Act contains a specific pro-
ision designed to protect dairy, lives
tock, and poultry producers against
Increased competition arising from
changes in land use urder the pro-
.s~em. In general, the Act is also ex~
,cted to help these producers by de-
teasing the likelihood that low price 5
ill drive producers of corn, wheat,
,tton. and tobacco into competition
TIN them.
National Acreage Allotments are es-
,blished for corn, wheat, and rice.
nd under the Soil-ConservatiOn and
Domestic Allotment Allotment Act,
or tobacco. The national allOtmentS
~e divided among the States produc-
these commodities. Ire State al
,.nents are divided among counties
nd the county allotments among in
ividual producers. The National cot
m allotment Gin bales) is converted
to acres and divided among Statoc.
.,unties, and individual farmers. All
%, uty allotmentS are apport1oned
mono individual farmers through the
,:al and county committees.
Marketing and Storage Quotas for
five listed commodities can b.
,me effective only when supplies ex-
eed normal by amounts definitely
pecified for each commodity, and
hen only when approved in a pro
ucers' referendum. The supply levels
yhich must be exceeded before quotas
an be put into use include reserves
nd carry overs larger than the US
al reserves and carry-overs. Sales lr'
xcess of marketing quotas are SUB
oct to a penalty per pound or per
.ushel. The penalty, together with
cams on stored commodities, protects
'arners who wish to hold products
n storage when markets are becom-
-7g glutted and prices are threatened
18th collapse. The marketlng-quota
rovisions apply to all producers.
Methods of using the marketing
uotas vary among commodities Cen
al procedure calls for determining,
efore the opening of the marketing
car. whether the total supply OF the
commodity available for. the coming
oar will exceed normal consumption
nd market requirements, plus carry
ever.
The Act requires that all acreage
,,lotments and marketing quotas be
';ept available for public inspection
md sets up a system of local commits
COS for reviewing the quotas OF any