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Show Farmers Organize To Control Wheat Individual farmers will have a direct tie-up with the federal wheat administration admin-istration under the plans of the agricultural agri-cultural adjustment act, through local wheat growers' production control associations as-sociations which will be organized in the near future, according to information informa-tion received at the extension service of the Utah State Agricultural college. col-lege. These meetings will be called by county agents or by men especially appointed to direct the organization work in counties not served by agents, Director William Peterson said. Representatives elected at each of these local meetings by the farmers who decide to cooperate with the reduction re-duction program will constitute the board of directors of the county wheat control association, the organization of participating farmers which will direct the local application of the wheat plan. This board of directors, or control board, will in turn elect, officers, of-ficers, including a president, vice-president, vice-president, and ' secretary. The secretary secre-tary will usually be the county agricultural agri-cultural agent or another man in direct di-rect charge of the organization features. fea-tures. An executive committee of three, with the president of the county board I of directors serving as chairman, will then be elected by the board of directors. direc-tors. This executive committee will function as the allotment committee for the county, representing the entire county adjustment association in deal-ng deal-ng with the state and federal wheat administrations and in checking and passing on local matters of administration. adminis-tration. The county allotment committee com-mittee will be the fundamentally im-poitant im-poitant administrative unit in the whole plan for applying the wheat reduction program. The organization will be self-governing. The farmer who wishes information infor-mation on the wheat plan before he is reached by the local organization work, can get this by communicating with his local county agricultural agent or with his state director of extension ex-tension work. |