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Show On Utah County Farms With Extension Agent gladly explain the proviso the plan to anyone who mak ' quiry, Director Peterson saH counties where there are no a hog growers may have thi visions of the contract csc by applying to agents in r? counties or by writing to ii. tension service at Logan ': : ing that their total volume o hog products so sold or exchanged does not exceed 1000 pounds per marketing mar-keting year: If the volume exceeds 1000 pounds the producer loses his exemption. County agents have detailed information in-formation regarding the benefit payment plan under the corn-hog contracts of the AAA. They will NEW RULING ALLOWS ALL HOG GROWERS TO SIGN UP A new ruling on the corn-hog reduction re-duction agreement permits all hog producers, regardless of the size of their base production average to qualify for hog reduction payments pay-ments by reducing their litter average and production of hogs for market by not less than 25 per cent, according to Director William Wil-liam Peterson of the U. S. A. C. extension service, who is manager of the AAA for Utah. The originial ruling specified that if the 1932-33 litter average was less than three, farmers signing sign-ing the agreement were not required re-quired to reduce hog production in 1934, and in any event were not eligible to receive any hog reduction payments under the agreement. The change was made in consideration consider-ation of an unexpected interest in the program among farmers producing pro-ducing an average fewer than three litters per year, and to give these farmers an opportunity to share in the proceeds from the processing tax which is collected on the slaughtering of all hogs for market, regardless of by whom sold. At the same time, a new regulation was announced exempting exempt-ing farmers from paying the processing pro-cessing tax on 300 pounds or less of hog products sold or exchanged in a marketing year, and derived from hogs of their own raising which they have butchered, provid- |