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Show 1 make a formal petition to Directs William Peterson, manager of th administration for Utah. In no cas will this grace period be continue after October 15, according to gov ernment officials. Preliminary reports from th agricultural and emergency agent in the 11 districts of the state, wh have notified the state office, shos the following results of the sign-U campaign: Cache, 1016 applications repre senting 799,415 bushels of wheat o: 80 percent of the county wheat pro duction; Rich, 37 applications rep ! resenting 18,450 bushels or 40 per I cent of growers; Box Elder, appli I cations representing 1,483,896 bush eLs out of a possible 1,749,629 bush !els; Utah, about 60 percent of growlers; grow-lers; Salt Lake, applications representing repre-senting 174,859 bushels or about 4' I percent of wheat; Tooele, about 8: percent of wheat acreage or 81,91! bushels; Wasatch, 136 applicationi or about 57 per cent of the growers; Summit, 83 applications representing represent-ing 1100 acres out of a total of 1445 or more than 75 percent of wheat production; Juab, 95 percent of the wheat growers or about 21,300 acres; San Juan, about 65 percent of growers; Emery, 75 percent; Wayne, 50 signers or 36 percent; Garfield, 17 signers out of 111 growers; Kane, 19 signers or nearly 100 percent; Sevier, 259 applications or about 40 percent of growers; Morgan, 63 applications ap-plications out of a possible 165. Although definite information is not available at this time, Director ! Peterson estimates that from 75 to ,90 percent of the wheat acreage of the state will be represented in applications ap-plications for contracts. Director Peterson pointed out the fact that the percentage of wheat growers who signed applications does not represent the percentage of wheat acreage to be taken out of production, inasmuch as the majority majori-ty of the large growers have signed while the small growers have shown their reluctance in signing. u WHEAT ADJUSTMENT MANAGER PREDICTS HEAVY SIGN UP By W. D. Porter, Extension Editor Now that the campaign for signing sign-ing applications for wheat allotment contracts is virtually closed, those in charge have turned their attention atten-tion to forming permanent organizations organi-zations in counties and districts to carry on the next steps in the benefit bene-fit payment plan of the federal government for the curtailment of wheat. In order that all growers may have a chance to sign applications, the agricultural adjustment administration administra-tion has made it possible for an ex-j ex-j tension of time provided the county or district wheat control associations |