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Show Wheat Growers Protest Heavy Penalty Farmers Not Acquainted With Full Details States Co. Agent Call Wheat growers, stock and poultry men of Washington, Iron, Beaver and Millard met Saturday at 10 a. m., in Beaver with Senator Abe Murdock and other government officials to protest the enforcing of the 49 cents a bushel penalty which has been placed on the so-called so-called "hot wheat". Representatives from Washington Washing-ton county entered a strong protest pro-test over the measure declaring that they were not informed of the 49 cent penalty when they voted for the referendum program. It was pointed out that local farmers were under the opinion that they were voting on a 15 cent a bushel penalty which had been in the law. Government officials of-ficials called attention to the fact that Congress had passed the 49 j cent penalty prior to the election,! but growers of this county replied that it was not known in this section that a penalty had been voted through until Monday following fol-lowing the voting which had ended on Saturday, May 31. Dry Years Used As Basis Growers of this county presented present-ed the fact that due to a number of dry years previous to the 10 selected to be the basis of allotments allot-ments for farmers growing wheat, there had been very little wheat grown here. Consequently, this county has a very low quota for wheat making most of which is being grown this year come under the penalty class. Since most of the wheat is grown here to be used as feed for livestock and poultry it works a considerable hardship on the growers as the 49 cent penalty would make it prohibitive to feed the grain. Even with the larger amount of wheat that has been grown in the county this year it is pointed out that it will be necessary to import im-port more for feed. More moisture mois-ture this year had considerable to do with the .larger amount grown in the county, but new farming methods with tractors has also made it possible to bring more land under cultivation. Farmers Not Opposed It was pointed out to government govern-ment officials that most of the farmers in the county are not opposed to the program, but they are opposed to the 49 cent rather than 15 cent penalty. Anson B. Call, county agent, has written Representative Walter Granger regarding the problem, explaining in detail the many factors fac-tors that enter into the program here. He expressed the hope of Washington county farmers that some adjustment might be made for southern Utah farmers whereby where-by they would only have to pay the 15 cent penalty" (which they voted through) and not the 49 cent penalty. Those from Washington county who attended the meeting in Beaver were: State Senator Claud (Continued on page eight) Wheat Meetings (Continued from first page) Hirschi, Emil Graff, W. B. Mathis, E. J. Pickett, Anson B. Call, O. S. Fry and the county committee on the AAA program which includes, Wilford Schmutz, Wayne Wilson, George O. Holt and David Schmutz. |