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Show CORX-HOG CONTRACT FOR TWO YEARS NOW IS BEING PREPARED Work has been started on the contract for the new two-year adjustment program for corn and hogs following conflerences in Washington of producers, state agricultural specialists, and Agricultural Ag-ricultural Adjustment administration administra-tion officials on fundamental details de-tails of the new program, according ac-cording to Director William Peterson Pe-terson of the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college. Since a major adjustment problem prob-lem is to prevent an excessive production of hogs in 1937, a contract of more than one year'B duration is necessary, it was pointed out at the Washington conference. A two-year contract, it was thought, would be welcomed wel-comed by farmers in order that they might plan their farming operations more than one year ln advance. The main objective of the new program will be to maintain a balance between the production and consumption of corn and hogs during the next two years. To accomplish this objective, it will be necessary to (1) prevent an excessive production of corn in 1936 and 1937, (2) allow an increase in next year's pig crop that would be at least as great as it is estimated would take place were no adjustment program pro-gram in effect, and (3) prevent an excessive increase in the 1937 pig crop. The Adjustment administration has recommended that corn production pro-duction next year be limited to 95 million acres, or about 10 million fewer than would be likely lik-ely to be harvested without adjustment. ad-justment. This would require an aggregate adjustment of approximately ap-proximately 20 per cent on the part of all contract signers. Depending De-pending upon the 1936 corn crop and the demand expected next fall for the 1937 crop, a maximum maxi-mum corn reduction of 26 per cent has been proposed for 1937. Proposed hog adjustments are calculated to provide for a 30 per cent increase in federally inspected in-spected slaughter in 1936-37 above the slaughter expected in the present marketing year which began October 1, 1935. It is believed that1 a permitted hog production equal to 100 per cent of the base will allow for the desired increase in hog numbers next year. The new corn-hog contract will require that an area at least equal to the number of acres held out of corn be added to the usual area of .the farm devoted to soil-improving and erosion-preventing erosion-preventing uses. This year more than 2100 farmers far-mers in Utah' signed contracts with the AAA to control corn-hog corn-hog production and the recent vote favored a continuation of the program in the state, Director Direc-tor Peterson pointed out. |