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Show f WHEAT INSURANCE i DEADLINE SOON Less than 10 days rc-nain for Franklin county winter wheat growers to take out federal crop insurance on wheat planted for harvest in 1941, Wilford Stokes, member of the county agricultural agricultur-al conservation committee in charge of crop insurance, wnrned today. "In order (o i "all-risk" pro tectibn agaiusi ciu,, loss noxi year, .winter wheat "rowers must sign up for federal crop insurance before they seed, but not laier than August 31, next Saturday," Stokes said. Next year will be the I bird for the nation-wide crop insurance program which is administered within the county by the agricultural agricul-tural conservation committee. About 1700 Idaho wheat growers insured their 1939 wheat crops, ! while GSO0 policies w-ere written ; on the 1940 crop. Stokes pointed out (here are three ways in which growers can pay for crop insurance. These are: 1'. A-ctual wheat in the form of warehouse receipts. 2. Cash equal to the premium at current market prices. 3. An offset, at the present cash equivalent of the premium to be deducted from the first 1941 AAA payment to the farm. Insurance up to 75 per cent of the average normal yield may be obtained for premiums which run between one-half bushel and two bushels per acre, depending on the loss history of the farm, the committeeman com-mitteeman said. ( Wheat producers can sign up for crop insurance with county and community AAA committeemen o-at o-at the county agricultural comer ! yation office at the Court House : m Preston. |