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Show DAIRY PAYMENT PLAN EXTENDED Subsidies Will Be Paid on April-June Milk The dairy production payment program, designed to help increase and maintain production of dairy products and offset the increase ! in feed costs since September, 1942, has been extended to cover eligible dairy products produced in April, May and June, Orville L. Lee, chairman of the Utah State AAA committee, announced today. The rates of payment for this period will be 35 cents per hundredweight hun-dredweight for whole milk and 10 cents per pound for butterfat Applications for payments must be filed with local county AAA committees between July 1 and August 31, Mr. Lee said. Applica- , tions cannot be accepted for the April-June period if filed after August 31, unless the producer was prevented from filing earlier due to causes beyond his control, such as confining illness, absence from the state or serious accident. Payments previously were auth' orized to cover production up to March 31. Applications for the January, February, March period must be filed between April 1 and May 31, Mr. Lee said. The payment pay-ment rates for this period are 70 cents per hundredweight for whole milk and 10 cents per pound butterfat. but-terfat. Subject to congressional action, the subsidy program will be continued con-tinued through the balance of 1945, Mr. Lee revealed. If approved approv-ed by congress, the payment rates for the third quarter will be 45 cents per hundredweight for whole milk and 10 cents per pound for butterfat; and production dur. ing the fourth quarter will be paid for at the rate of 70 cents per hundredweight for whole milk and 16 cents per - pound for butterfat. but-terfat. . i ... |