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Show Sheep Owners Told of Incentive Pay I Sheep producers who want to; .add an estimated 41 extra to their 1955 net shorn wool earnings earn-ings were warned today that they have until Mar. 31 under normal conditions to apply for Incentive pajmrats. In issuing the warning, the Awriean Sheep Producers Council Coun-cil reminded producers that payments pay-ments would be made on all wool m4 lamb for which final set-tfetucnt set-tfetucnt was made during, the marketing year April 1, 1955 through March 31, 1956. No wool shorn before Jan. 1, 1955, however, how-ever, will be covered. T apply, a producer must deliver de-liver ta his country agricultural stabilization and conservation office of-fice twa copies of his accounts' of sale of shorn wool and fail-! wealed lambs for slaughter. Or arrangements (nay be made whereby cooperative associations' peols or dealers may make ap-' plications for their producer- j members or customers. All pay. ' ments, however, will be made! directly to each producer by sight I draftins by the ASC office. The county ASC officers will! also decide how much payment a producer should receive. Actually, Ac-tually, producers will not receive their money until next summer. After the close of the marketing year, the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture must collect all sales records and then determine what growers grow-ers on a national average were paid for their wool. Through the end of January, the S D A estimates, this was 14 cents a pound. This should be the final figure, for the annuaj average, the dif-' ference between 44 cents and the guaranteed 62 cents will be 18 cents, or 51 'fc Instead of each grower getting 18 cents a pound, however, he'd be entitled to 51 of his own net sales proceeds. j Incentive payments were putj on this basis to give growers am extra reason for growing and marketing their wool for the best prices. For instance, a grower who sells his wool for CO cents will receive an extra 25 cents a pound, if the national annual average price Is 41 cents'. The grower who gets 31 cents for his wool will receive 13 cents more. Incentive payments for pulled wool are calculated differently. For each 100 pounds of full wool -ed lambs sold for slaughter, a producer will be credited for four pounds of wool. If 18 cents a pound is the difference between the average shorn wool price and the guaranteed price, then the producer wiU receive 72 cents' per 100 pounds. i |