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Show Vheat Acreage Allotment Notices Due Wheat farmers will receive their 1954 acreage allotment notices no-tices within the next few days, in advance of the Aug. 14 referendum referen-dum on wheat marketing quotas, quo-tas, J. Leonard Topham, chairman chair-man of the Iron County Production Produc-tion and Marketing Administration Administra-tion committee said today. The wheat quotas announced by the Secretary of Agriculture on July 1 operate through acreage acre-age allotments, and every wheat grower who is affected by quotas quo-tas will be notified of his acreage allotment as soon as possible. Generally, all growers with more than 15 acres of wheat will be subject to marketing quotas and are therefore eligible to vote in the referendum. The quotas must be approved by at least two-thirds of the growers voting before they may be put into effect. However, acreage acre-age allotments will be effective whether or not quotas are approved. ap-proved. A national wheat allotment of 62 million acres was proclaimed by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson on July 15. This figure fig-ure will be apportioned among the states and counties according to the acreage seeded for the production of wheat during the past 10 years, with adjustments for abnormal weather and for trends in acreage. County allotments will be apportioned ap-portioned among individual farms according to tillable acres, crop rotation practices, type of soil, and the slope and lay of the land. Generally, any farm which grew wheat in any one of the years 1951, 1952 or 1953 will receive re-ceive an acreage allotment. |