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Show WHEAT PUN NOW READY FOR FARMERS MEETING DATE CHANGED TO SEPTEMBER 23RD A preliminary meeting of the-, the-, Wheat Producers of Duchesne and (vicinity "was held in the County . Court Room Friday evening with I Uintah County Agent, E. Peterson in charge. Information concerning the Wheat Adjustment Plan, and I applications for Wheat Adjust-, Adjust-, ments, and other forms to be atud-, atud-, ied and filled in were passed out I to those present. j A meeting was set for Septem-of Septem-of the permanent local allottment ber 20th to effect the organization I been postponed, however, . and will t committee. This meeting has since be held on Saturday, September 23rd, at 7:30 p. m. . The following article by C. O. I Stott-State Extension Agricultural Agricul-tural Ecoomist, explains the purpose pur-pose of this meeting, and discloses . much valuable informaton: i Next Monday, September 25th, has been set by Secretary, of Agrl-. Agrl-. culture, Henry A. Wallace, as the final date on which applications for wheat allottment contracts can !be signed by wheat farmers. This simply means that unless a farmer signs the application by or before the 25th day of September he will not have another such opportunity . for three years, or until the expira-' expira-' tion of the present contract. Every farmer in the Uintah Basin Ba-sin who is elligible should sign an application for the wheat allottment allott-ment contract by next Monday, whether or not he has made up his mind to sign the contract," which he will do at a later date. The signing of the application does not bind you to sign the contract. You may sign the contract or not, as you choose, later. However.lf you fail to sign the application before the expiration date you can not possibly possi-bly come under the plan later.' Therefore, farmers, if you have not already secured an application see your local committee or county agent, E. Peterson, get the proper form, which is W-2a, fill In your farm on page one; on page three name, address, location of your farm on page one; on page three fill in the two tables of information the first being your crop acreage for 1933 and the second is your acres of wheat and total bushels threshed in 1930 1931 and 1932. There will be meetings held in every community in the Basin on Saturday night September 23rd at 7:30 o'clock, the purpose of electing elec-ting a permanent allotment committee com-mittee of three. Only those who have signed the application are eligible el-igible to vote for their committee members. The chairman of the comunity committee in each county of the county wheat Production constitute the Board of Directors Control Association. A Synopsis of the Wheat Adjustment Adjust-ment Plan The wheat adjustment plan seeks organized production control. With production uncontrolled, no government canr assure farmers a permanently higher and more stable sta-ble wheat price. Only farmers themselves can take the steps that will provide such assurance; but the Government can give them a chance, and encouragement, to do so. The Farm Act offers American Ameri-can farmers the chance to get together to-gether to plan their harvests, and to adjust production year by year to accord with actual, profitable demand. . The Plan. Each farmer who wishes to. cooperate in an adjust ment of -wheat acreage will register regis-ter his average acreage and pro duction for the past 3 to 5 years. About half of that average acreage acre-age and production for the past 3 to 5 years. About half of that average production-roughly, tho part on which we shall collect a processing tax-will be his farm allotment, and on this farm allotment allot-ment the Government will make him an adjustment, payment. His claimed allottment will be printed in the local paper for neighborhood scrutiny. Honest declarations may be expected, for it will soon bo realized that each individual, like (Continued on page ,4) payments will be made. They will be made regardless of what weather and world conditions may bring. The farmer who joins for 1 adjustment joins for price stability stabil-ity and for the security of the j American farm home. Total Benefits cannot be figured! in terms of immediate adjustment j payments. Far greater cash gains will come, in the long run, from a raised and stable price for wheat. But the immediate extra sum that the Government is offering in adjustment payments in order to reward cooperation and get the plan going is considerable. The individual grower wro wishes to estimate, roughly, the adjustment payment to which he is entitled this year can do so. Approximately Approxi-mately two thirds of the payment will be mode this fall; the remainder remain-der when he has demonstrated fulfillment of the coitract in sowing sow-ing the 1934 harvest. An example is given of a farmer whose average acreage seeded to wheat for the 1930, '31, and '32 is 60 acres, and whose average crop for the three years is 1000 bushels. The farmer will recieve this fall an adjustment on 54 percent or abuout half his crop, of 20c per bushels, and in the spring will re- cieve another 8 or 10c. This will make in all about 28c on 500 bushels, bush-els, or $140:00 less the expense of adminstering the plan. J THE WHEAT PLAN (Continued from page 1) each county, has an allotted production pro-duction and an allotted adjustment payment. Therefore, the man who makes an extravagant claim is not seeking to cheat the United States Treasury but his own neighbors. The Contract. When his application appli-cation is received by his local committee, com-mittee, the farmer becomes a mem- ber of his county wheat production I control association. The only busi- ness of this association is to ad-I ad-I minister allottments and adjustment adjust-ment payments, locally. The contract con-tract is simple. The farmer a-grees a-grees to cut his acreage for the 1934 and 1935 wheat crops by an amount to be designated by the Secretary of Agriculture, but the reduction required may in no case exceed 20 percent of his average sown , acreage in 1930, 1931, and 1932. On that part of his wheat crop which will be subject to the processing tax--about half of Vj total cropthe Government will pay the manner 20 cents a bushel in cash this fall, and between 8 and 10 cents a bushel next spring., These payments will be in addition to whatever the farmer can get for his wheat in the open market. If the current farm price of wheat per bushel for the crop year 1934 or the crop year 1935 is below the wheat parity price, adjustments will tend to give the cooperating farmer the parity price on his allotted al-lotted number of bushels will be made. ; The adjustment plan is intended to raise the farmer's return from wheat, for the long pull, so that taxable part of the crop will be worth as much, in terms of other goods as it was worth before the war. By the taxable part of the cdop" we mean that part on which processors will have to pay a pro- cessing tax. Half the crop may( be used as a rough working figure ( in estimating adjustment pay-! ments on the 1933 crop. If a reduction in sowing for the 1931 harvest is required, the farmer will- reduce on the bosis of . his 3-yeear average acreage (60, acres); and must put the land he', takes out of the wheat into soil-' building and noncompeting crop.' The Wheat Remains His Own j The Government has no interest in his crop once the acreage adjustment ad-justment has been made. The ad-' justment payment is distinctly ex-! tra-money. The man who cooperates cooper-ates in the adjustment program j gets this extra money in addition to the market price for his grain, j The man who does not cooperate gets the market price alone. Parity Assurance is one strong points the Government's offer. Adjustment payments will be made on the basis of average production in the years past. Provided that the man sows his allotted acreage .and takes good care of it these |