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Show Strict Plans Will Regulate Planting Under the domestic allottment plan of the federal agricultural emergency act as applied to wheat, the United States government will, not fix the price of wheat nor will it take any of this product from the growers, according ac-cording to Director William Peterson of the Utah State Agricultural college col-lege extension service, who has been designated manager for the act in Utah. In its contract, copies of which will be placed before each wheat grower in the country to sign, the government govern-ment offers a commission of 30 cents a bushel for five-eights of the wheat yielded on farm in 1930, 1931, 1932, based on the average yields of the past three years, provided the farmers, farm-ers, agree to curtail their 1934 and 1935 plantings not more than 20 per cent below the average acreage of the base period. The government will not rent the land thrown out of wheat production, according to Director Peterson, but the secretary of agriculture may designate certain national crops that cannot be grown on this land. Forage crops, barley, oats or sugar beets may be grown in place of wheat. Federal officials or their representatives represen-tatives will make careful surveys in each locality to determine what portion por-tion of the wheat producing areas will i satisfy the curtailment decree of the secretary of agriculture. Wheat growers will be afforded an opportunity to sign the government contracts between July and October of this year. According to present plans there will be no contracts made following those dates. Farmers who break contracts before their fulfillment in 1935 will be classed class-ed as borrowers from the government and all commissions paid to them must be returned to the treasury at Washington, D. C, the manager said. |
