The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-09
Counties Organize
Drought Groups
For Emergency
Coop Will Give
Service For Hay
To Local Farmers

herds in FIVE local counties rec
commended for federal aid by the
State Agricultural Mobilization
Committee, last month. These
counties are Amelia. Buckingham.
Cumberland, Nottoway and Pow
hatan.
Three Of these counties. Buck
ngham Cumberland. and Amelia
have named County United States
Department Of Agriculture
Drought Committees.
Under the first plan for emer-
gency feed, farmers who qualify
as eligible may buy Commodity
Credit Corporation feed stocks at
reduced prices through the Pro-
1uction- Marketing Administration
County Committees. This emer-
gency feed will be available at 81
per buShel for corn. Sl.1O per
bushel for wheat, so cents per
bushel for oats and S35 per ton for
cotton seed meal, cakes, or pei
let's
Other Plan
Under the other plan. ELIGIBLE
farmers may purchase mixed feed
and mixed dairy feed at reduced
prices from mixed feed diStribu-
tors The price of such feed to the
farmer Will reflect the reduced
prices to mixers for corn and cot
tonseed meal from CCC stocks.
The price 10 feed mixers for corn
is 81 per bushel and for cotton
seed meal is s35 per ton. both
prices less discounts for freight
and banding.
The mixed feed formula under
the drought emergency program
must contain 800 pounds of cot
tonseed meal and 1000 pounds of
corn per ton.
Mixed ICED manufactures NAV
obtain corn III carload lots from
the PIMA Commodity Office. Kan
sas City, Mo, and they may order
cottonseed meal in carloads from
the PIMA Commodity Office in New
orleans. 70 set the program un-
derWay quickly, feed distributor.
may sell their present stocks to
farmers us drought emergency
iced and later replenlsh then
stock in an equivalent amount
purchased from CCC.
To Be Eligible
To be eligible TO purchase TIKI
drought emergency iced. a farm
er must have less than a 30-dav
feed supply on hand Generally
orders VIII be approved for feed
supplies sufficient for no more than
80 days. Also orders will be ap-
proved only for feeding animals
N foundation herds. dairy or beef
cattle. and sheep.
Farmers vii! not be eligible ia
receive feed under this program
II they are financially able to buy
at prevailing market prices the
iced necessary to maintain their
basic foundation herds throughout
the drought period.
Eligibility provisions under eth
er OF the feed plans arc the same
and shall be determined by the
county USDA drought committees
The emergency feed program is
expected 10 last for about a
month.
Committees
Members Of Buckingham USDA
Drought Committee are r. n
Seay, chairman. r. S. Ellis
county agent, G. T. Cowheyd. r
|. Bruce and T B. Hall
Members of Cumberland Coun-
ty USDA Drought Committee are
b. c. Garrett. chairman. f. L.
Seay, county agent. G. T. Cow
herd, w r. Parker and j. A. Ha-
zlegrove.
Members of the Amelia County
USDA Drought Committee are ]
Is. Vance, chairman, ID. II. Spen
Ger, L. L. Wood county agent, J.
q. Dlckerson, and a farmer vet
to be named
Amelia county has not yet been
approved for emergency credit
loans according to E. L. Wood.
county agent However. the coun-
ty drought committee has made
application to the state drought
committee anC the state director
OF the Federal Housing Admin
Stratlon to he reconsldered for
long term, low interest rate loans.
Coop Aid
Another plan for emergency aid
Tor farmers in this area whose hav
and pasture crops have been SER
lousy damaged by the 1858
drought was announced this week
by Southern States Cooperative
IN the form Of hay purchasing
porgram through which high qua
lity hav will be supplied farmers
at minimum cost.
This emergency program bv
the farmer-oWnc examination to
aid not only its membership but
all farmers in the stricken areas
Of Virgin a, Kentucky. and Ten
nesee. was announced along with
the news that the cooperative was
establishing drought emergency
service This service Will be head
ed by Garland F.. Benton. of Bal
tlmore, and assisted by j. Eads
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