Show FEDERAL SUGAR QUOTAS WILL ASSURE DOMESTIC PRODUCERS PRODUCE RS OF MARK MARKET ET every per person s on in the united states will eat an average of 1042 pounds of sugar in 1939 that is in raw value or an equivalent of pounds of refined beet sugar the total consumption in the US U S will be tons raw value henry A wallace united states secretary of agriculture estimates beet growers in the 48 states will be able to provide about 2320 per cent bf the total amount required quiren and cane sugar growers in the states 62 per cent leaving per cent to be provided by wand island possessions and foreign countries ordinarily the united states imports about 75 per cent of the total to avoid domestic surpluses the agricultural adjustment administration has given each beet sugar factory a quota in in bags of sugar which it may produce and this quota has been translated into number of acres necessary to pro juco fcc ucc the allotment this acreage I 1 i set for each factory fa story district and county conservation committe betl i will divido the allotment among beet growers according to productivity of soi record of the farmer in past production and number of acres ap res planted in sugar beets on each farm during the past ten years 1939 acreage allotment is a as compared with in 1938 the lowest acreage of the ten year period was in 1936 and the highest was acres in 1933 the quotas have been established to guarantee a definite portion of the domestic sugar market to american producers this was not accomplished through tariffs as increases in tariff merely shifted offshore off shore competition from one country to another authorities point out all beet producers who do not plant in excess of allotments and who meet certain soil conservation and labor payment requirements will receive federal payments of about per ton of sugar beets produced under this program utah producers received in federal payments up to november 30 1938 for their participation in 1937 labor requirements state state that no farmer who receives payments may employ children under 14 years of age and no child between 14 and 16 years may be employed for more than eight hours in one day wage rates are set by the secretary of agriculture these labor requirements do not apply to the farmer nor his own family the secretary is also authorized to prescribe practices f for or preservation and improvement of soil fertility in 1938 the producer was wa a given his choice of the following practices per acre of beets maintain one acre of alfalfa clover or perennial grasses seed one acre of such grasses plow under one acre of green manure apply 8 tons of manure on land adapted to sugar beet growing apply 75 pounds of available commercial fertilizer to each acre of beet land |