The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-06-29
PIMA Gives instruction
On ExcessCotton
Planted In County
Penalties On 1850
Crop Cited BY
Holmes Official

The 1850 acreage and perform
ance procedure requires that the
State PIMA Committee shall APP
prove the amount of the deposit
REQUIRED for checking disposition
of overpanted cotton, according
to E. r. Trotman, county admin
strative office.
The State Committee has APP
proved the following:
For checking disposition of
overplanted cotton deposit of
$3.50 per farm plus an addition
al charge of twenty-five cents
per acre for all acreage to be
checked shall be made by the
operator prior to making the re-
check. In the event of a fraction
of an acre, the nearest whole
acre will be used to determine
the amount of the deposit requir-
ed. The smallest acreage to be
destroyed in a single plot shall
be five-tenths of an acre except
in the following cases:
/. When the total acreage to
be destroyed in less than S acre,
in which case the entire acreage
destroyed must be in one plot.
2. When the acreage to be
destroyed is more than S acre
and less than one acre, the acre
age destroyed may be in two
plots.
3. When the acreage to be de-
stroyed is over one acre, only
one plot out of the plots destroy
ed may be less than $ acre. For
example, IL acres to be destroy
ed could be destroyed in plots
of one and two-tenths acre, etc
a. All of any separate plot OF
cotton may be destroyed to come
within the allotment regardless
of the number or size of such
fields destroyed in so doing.
I'VE wish to call your atten-
ton to the law which requires
that the excess cotton acres
planted above the farm acreage
allotment must be destroyed
within IS dayssSrom the date OF
your notice, showing the number
acres planted in excess of your
allotment. You will receive this
notice through the mail. If the
excess acreage is not destroyed
within the Is days. your farm
viii be considered as overplant-
ed and no cotton produced on the
farm can be sold until the pre-
scribe penalties have been paid
on the cotton produced on the
excess acreage. You will not be
permitted to put your cotton in
the loan or to be eligible for any
support prices for any cotton pro-
duced by you or any cotton pro-
duced that you have an interest
in.
I'm addition to not being eligi-
bic to support price you will not
be eligible for any assistance of
fered through the ACP Program
as to conservation materials and
services. If you have received
such material or services during
1850 and your farm remains over
planted after the 15-day period
you will be requested to refund
the total amount of any assist
ance or granted you under the
1850 program.
Each producer that receives a
notice that the farm has over
painted the cotton acreage allot-
ment will also receive a mimeo-
graph form that you will fill out
and attach your plow-up check
to after you have destroyed the
excess cotton acreage. There will
be no one sent out from this Of
flee to measure or stake off the
excess acreage to be DESTROYED.
1iliS VIII De your responsibility
to determine the acreage, have
1t destroyed and notify the
Holmes County PIMA Office with
your remittance. We will then
send man to check up on the
acreage destroyed and if the de-
stroyed acreage equals or exceeds
the amount shown on your notice
you will receive corrected no.
tice stating that your farm is in
compliance.
We urge every farmer who
receives notice that he has ex-
ceeded his cotton acreage allot-
ment to destroy the excess acre
age and let as get his farm in
compliance at the very earliest
date. but in no event do not ex-
coed the l5-day notice, This law
was passed by Congress and the
MUST be followed"