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Show Wheat Marketing Quota Referendum To Be Voted On By Co. Farmers By ANSON B. CALL County Agent As provide in Section 335 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, the Secretary of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, whenever it appears that the total supply of wheat, as of the beginning of any marketing year, will exceed a normal year's domestic consumption and exports ex-ports by more than thirty-five per cent, not later than May 15, but prior to the beginning of such marketing year, shall proclaim a wheat marketing quota referendum. referen-dum. For the present marketing year the crop reports show that the 1941 wheat crop will equal approximately ap-proximately 817,000,000 bushels. In addition to this crop we have a carry-over from the 1940 crop of 400,000,000 bushels, making a total of 1,217,000,000 bushels as the amount of wheat on hand for the 1941 crop year. It has been estimated that the total use under this year, taking tak-ing into consideration human consumption, feed for livestock, seed, and probable exports, will be 680,000,000 bushels. This would then leave us a surplus of 570,-000,000 570,-000,000 bushels which exceeds by more than thirty-five per cent a normal year's domestic consumption consump-tion and exports. Therefore, under un-der the present Agricultural Adjustment Ad-justment Act, it has been mandatory manda-tory for the Secretary to declare a wheat marketing quota referendum refer-endum for 1941. To Be Held May 81 This referendum is to be held on Saturday, May 31, 1941. All wheat farmers in the United States will be eligible to vote in the referendum. If more than one-third of the farmers voting in the referendum oppose such quota the Secretary shall, prior to the effective date of such quota, by proclamation, suspend the operation of the national marketing quota with respect to wheat. If two-thirds of the farmers farm-ers voting in the referendum vote in favor of the marketing quota the individual farmer who has planted within his 1941 wheat acreage allotment will be issued a wheat marketing quota card which entitles to market, feed, or otherwise dispose of all wheat which he has produced on the acreage within his wheat allotment. allot-ment. If a man has exceeded his 1941 wheat allotment, and has produced over 200 bushels of wheat he will be subject, under the present law, to a penalty of fifteen cents per bushel times the normal yield per acre on the number num-ber of acres in excess of the wheat acreage allotment. If the man who has exceeded his allotment allot-ment does not wish to pay such penalty he may place the excess wheat under seal and take out a government wheat loan at sixty per cent of the regular loan rate or he may place the excess wheat under seal without taking out the loan. After he has either paid the penalty or placed his excess wheat under seal a wheat marketing card will be issued him which will make it possible for him to market, feed or ot.her-(Continued ot.her-(Continued on page fourl B.-P.W. Convention (Continued from first page) Simms, National International Relations Re-lations chairman, of Hastings, Nebraska Ne-braska will be the guest speaker. The St. George club will have a full delegation present in eleven of its members who are planning to attend. They are: Mrs. Price, Mrs. Jetta Snow, local retiring president and Mrs. Kate B. Em-pey, Em-pey, incoming president; Luetta Imlay, Mattie and Alice Pendleton Pendle-ton LaVera McArthur, Margaret Jones, Erma Bentley, Vivian Spencer Spen-cer and Ruth Falck. "St. George has been extremely fortunate in having three of its members besides myself holding state offices," says Mrs. Price. "We hope that we may be as well represented for the next two years". Those holding state offices now besides Mrs. Price are: Miss Mattie Pendleton, state corresponding corres-ponding secretary; Miss Alice Pendleton, Dixie district director, and Miss LaVera McArthur, state Bulletin editor. Those close to the workings of the organization felt that Mrs Price has had a very successful two years as president and that the club has grown in many ways during her tenure of office. |