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Show Department Seeks i Further Wheat Cuts! Immediate reopening of the wheat program to give farmers of Utah who have not yet signed up an opportunity to join the adjustment plan of the AAA-,' is announced by Director William Wil-liam Peterson, manager of the administration ad-ministration for Utah. This announcement announce-ment was made following communications communica-tions from Secretary Wallace and Chester C. Davis, administrator of the AAA. Farmers who sign up now will be eligible for the final 1933 payment and the 1934 and 1935 adjustment benefits, but they will net receive the first payment of 20 cents a bushel on their allotments promised earlier signers, sign-ers, Director Peterson says. However, the new signers will begin receiving benefit payments when the second payment of 8 cents a bushel, less local costs, is paid. County control associations already in existence will provide the basis for the sign-up machinery and additional supplies, if necessary, will be furnished furnish-ed them by the deportment of agriculture agricul-ture at Washington, D. C. Signing up of farmers who wish to take advantage advan-tage of the opportunity will begin at once, Director Peterson says. Those who are interested should make inquiry in-quiry at the office of a, county agent or write directly to Director Peterson at the state extension office at Logan. In the original wheat adjustment r-ampaign approximately 209,670 acres ;f wheat-producing land in Utah ame under contract. This represents a 77 per cent sign-up. There- remains, according to AAA officials, 62,172 cres of wheat land not under contract : in this state. By reopening the wheat, -rogram.' it is hoped that the majority of the non-contracted acreage will ; come under the administration's re-1 duction policy. j |