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Show Farmers' Meeting On Crop Insurance To Be Held Friday Farmers of Lehi, American Fork and Pleasant Grove who want to know the cost of wheat crop insurance insur-ance on their own farms will be able to get this information at a meeting to be held at the Lehi Memorial 1 hall on Friday, June 17 at 8 p. m., it is announced by S. R. Boswell, county agent. ' In addition to the explanation of the method of determining the cost of insurance on an individual farm, information will be available on how to make application for insurance and on the benefits that will be available to the insured farmer. Application forms will be available avail-able July 1 at the office of the county committee. Insurance premium pre-mium payments must be made before be-fore the insurance policy will go into in-to effect- In order to insure the 1939 wheat crop it will be necessary to pay premiums before the crop is seeded this fall. Premiums for insurance on next year's crop can be paid with wheat from this year's crop. Owner-operators, landlords and tenants, in counties or areas where a substantial number of farmers take out insurance, may insure yields on farms on which good farming practices are being followed. fol-lowed. Policy holders who fail to earn AAA wheat payments for a farm because of exceeding wheat acreage allotments will not be eligible eligi-ble for crop insurance for the following fol-lowing year. Wheat crop insurance will give a farmer protection against loss .of yield resulting from unavoidable causes, guaranteeing either one-half or three-fourths of the farmer's average av-erage yield. The insurance policy will cover loss of yield resulting from drought, flood, hail, plant disease, di-sease, insect infestations and other unavoidable causes. n |