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Show Show Total Wheat Program Benefits Utah producers cooperating in the wheat adjustment program had received re-ceived up to November 19 a total of $853,1G3.25, of which $454,513.20 wa3 paid in the first 1933 installment, $91,012.25 in the second 1933 installment, install-ment, and $307,037.80 in the first 1934 installment, announces William Peterson, director of state extension service. Wheat benefit payments for the entire en-tire country totaling $19,871,589, representing rep-resenting approximately half the sum due in 1934 to cooperating growers, have been paid, according to the wheat section of the agricultural adjustment ad-justment administration. In addition, growers have already received $67,-855,756 $67,-855,756 on the first 1933 installment, making total payments to growers in the wheat program to date of $117,-727,345. $117,-727,345. In addition to the benefits actually paid to date, cooperating wheat growers grow-ers of the United States are to receive re-ceive approximately $75,000,000 more on their 1933 and 1934 crops. This amount includes unpaid sums on payments pay-ments now due and the second installment install-ment on the 1934 crop which will be payable next season. Rapid distribution of the rest of the first installment on the 1934 crop is indicated by the fact that compliance com-pliance certificates on 521,000 of the 577,000 contracts signed by growers have been received in Washington. "It is now just a little more than a year since the first wheat checks went to farmers," says George E. Parrel, chief of the adjustment administration's ad-ministration's wheat section, "and in this year, payments which have actually ac-tually gone to growers averaged mora than $200 per contract." |