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Show On Utah CountTPa7m7 f With The Extension Agent I contract. These figures do not indicate that hog production in Utah has been handicapped by the signing of the contract. The reduction may have been . due largely to the drouth period, the high price i of grain and the very low price paid for hogs in the fall of 1934. At the present price, the hog busi- j ness ,is profitable but it will take some time for the farmers to accumulate ac-cumulate breeding stock which would allow production up to the maximum allowed under the contract, con-tract, which is 90. per cent of the hogs produced during the base period 1932-1933. To date there has been received; in, Utah, in corn-hog benefit pay-j ments $308,100. The coming vote1 permits an expression from any f - - . ITAH lAliMKKS MAKK LOANS TllliU STATU ASSOCIATIONS U(nh, farmers and livestock men have' received $-1,279,340 in short-term short-term crop loans through their three cooperative credit organizations, organiza-tions, the Utah Livestock Production Produc-tion Credit association, in Salt Lake City, and the newly or-canized or-canized Box. Elder County association, associa-tion, located In Tremonton. In a report containing this figure, which was issued this week by the production Credit corporation in Oakland, it was indicated that a large part of this volume of loans was made by the livestock association, as-sociation, though Utah farmers have also received a large volume of commitments. The total number of loans made from organization of the three associations to date is 427; of these 370 are outstanding in vblume of 52.020,636. By far the larger part of the business has been done since the first of the year, 304 loans having closed over that period. More than four-fifths of the land bank commissioner loans made to farmers throughout the United States have their matured interest installments paid up, according ac-cording to a report issued by the Washington offices of the Farm Credit administration. Payments total $27,139,000. . Farmers in the, eleventh district of the FCA tied with borrowers of the St. Louis district, comprising IMinoisrpo Arkansat, for filth place in the record of in-tuest in-tuest installment payments. They have repatd $2,474,000, or 90 9 per cent of their total interest obliga-t obliga-t ons the St. Louis district reach-Ni, reach-Ni, I6 f ""' Percentage record. Ninety-four, the highest percentile ating, was reached by southeastern southeast-ern and southern states, and the gieatest number of delinquencies occurred in states which have been alfected by adverse agricultural yeafs dUring the past few PI AN A'''0VS MOKE IIOCS FOB UTAH GKOWEKS By, Director William Peterson, u- .A- c- Extension Service Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-justment administration bava made a call for a referendum vote " October 26 to determine whether or not the corn-hog program pro-gram shall continue after November Novem-ber 30, 1935, the date when the present contract ends. The vote is intended to provide a free expression ex-pression for those who are in favor of .continuing the program and those who are opposed. Unfortunately, in Utah there is a supposition that the corn-hog program during the past two years has compelled a great reduction in the number of hogs produced. This statement seems to be contrary con-trary to existing conditions. In 1934 there were 2,666 producers pro-ducers who signed the corn-hog contract in this state. The first contract requested the signers to make a 25 per cent reduction of the average production of 1932-1933, 1932-1933, which .permitted a 75 per cent production. The contract contained no minimum. After reducing re-ducing 25 per cent of this average ave-rage production, the contract signers sign-ers were permitted a production in 1934 of 45,454 market hogs. They actually produced only 16,-S93 16,-S93 head, or 37 per cent of the total they could produce under the limitations of the contract. In 1935 there are 2,070 corn-hog corn-hog contract signers in Utah. The required reduction in the contract for 1935 is only 10 per cent below be-low the number of hogs raised during dur-ing the period 1932-1933. . The contract signers, therefore, have a permitted production after subtraction sub-traction of the ten per cent of the total, of 43,964 market hogs. The summer check up on the number of hogs that have been produced so far and the probable number of fall litters expected to be produced, pro-duced, is a total of 27,000 hogs for this year, or about 61 per cent of what they could produce under the limitations of the contract. These figures indicate that the production of hogs in Utah in 1934 and 1935 is not very different from what would have been the case had there been no corn-hog contract con-tract signers. - Only an occasional farmer has limited his production on account of the contract. Nearly all the signers have produced all they otherwise would if there had been no contract. The drop in the number of contract con-tract signers of 600 from 1934 to 1935 was caused partly because of the fact that in 1935 the production pro-duction required at least 25 per cent of the number of hogs produced pro-duced during the base period 1932-. 1933. A substantial number of contract signers have been compelled com-pelled to return the first benefit payment check because their production pro-duction has not met the 25 per cent requirement under the 1935 |