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Show 30 Per Cent Acreage Cut Required For Crop Loans Secretary of Agriculture Hyde Announces An-nounces Regulations Under Which Funds for This Year's Farm Operations Op-erations May Be Obtained. Reduction of 30 per cent in the acreage planted to cash crops will be required this year of farmers who procure crop production loans, Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde announced today in making public the regulations governing the 1933 loans. In making available for crop pro- not in excess of that planted in 1932, provided a first lien is given on all crops growing, or to be planted, grown and harvested in 1933 sufficient suffi-cient to cover the advance. In addition to the reduction required re-quired this year in acreage of cash crops, borrowers may agree to plant a garden for home use and a sufficient suffi-cient acreage of feed crops to supply feed for their livestock. Acreage taken out of cash crop production may be planted to any soil-building crop. duction loans this year $90,000,000 I of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Corpora-tion funds. Congress specified that the Secretary of Agriculture might require, as a condition of any loan, "that the borrower agree to reduce his acreage or production program on such basis, not to exceed 30 per centum, as may be determined by the Secretary." The Secretary's regulations, reg-ulations, however, stipulate that acreage reduction will not be required re-quired of farmers who, in 1933, plant no more than 8 acres of cotton; 2 acres of tobacco; 40 acres of wheat; 20 acres of corn; 2V4 acres of truck crops; 8 acres of potatoes; 30 acres of rice; 8 acres of peanuts. Loans will be made, the regulations further declare, "to farmers who are unable to obtain loans for crop production pro-duction during the year 1933 from other sources. These loans may be made to such individuals as are found by the Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture to have acreage fit for seeding and who are without means to purchase pur-chase the supplies necessary for crop production during the year 1933 ... No loans will be made to any applicant who has a means of livelihood liveli-hood other than farming . . . Loans will not be made for the purchase of machinery or livestock, or for the payment of taxes, debts, or interest on debts. Loans will not be made Farmers seeking crop production loans this year are advised to obtain application blanks and copies of the regulations in then- home counties, rather than from Washington. Field agents of the Crop Production Loan Office are now designating representatives repre-sentatives in each farming county to inform prospective borrowers of the requirements governing loans and to distribute application blanks and other necessary forms. These agents will assist farmers in filling out applications, without charge. Accompanying the required 30 per cent reduction in acreage planted to cash crops, above the established minimum, the 1933 regulations limit the amount available to any farmer to $300. In 1932, crop production loans were made to 507,632 farmers, averaging $126 each. No loan in excess ex-cess of $100 will be made to any applicant ap-plicant who is in arrears on as many as two previous loans made by the Secretary of Agriculture. As last year, interest is fixed at 5Vz per cent, to be deducted when the advance is made. All notes are due on or before be-fore October 31, 1933. Advances to borrowers may be made in installments, install-ments, the regulations state, inasmuch inas-much as expenditures for crop production pro-duction are usually made over a considerable con-siderable period. One million dollars of the $90,000-000 $90,000-000 funds is available for livestock feed in drought or storm stricken areas. for the feeding of livestock other than workstock used in crop production." produc-tion." An application for a loan, accompanied ac-companied by the necessary crop hen, will be passed on first by county advisory committees. If the county committee and the field inspector in-spector certify the application, it will be forwarded to one of the several sev-eral regional field offices for final approval and disbursement. The location lo-cation of the regional offices, is as follows: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, for California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho (portion south of Idaho county) coun-ty) and Western Colorado, to a line running east of Jackson Routt, Eagle, Pitkin, Gunnison, Sagauche, Alamosa and Costilla counties. Local Inspector Ready to Help Farmers Farm-ers Apply for Crop Loans. Regulations for 1933 governing crop production loans have been issued by the Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture and are now available to farmers farm-ers in this county upon request to M. E. Kartchner, Field Inspector of the Crop Production Loan Office. Mr. Kartchner's office is in City Hall American Fork every Thursday until April 27th. Instead of writing to Washington or to one of the regional offices, Mr. Kartchner announced, farmers can obtain the necessary application blanks for loans, and detailed information infor-mation about the requirements, direct di-rect from him. Applications will then be reviewed by the county advisory ad-visory committee, then certified and forwarded to the regional office at Salt Lake City for final approval and action. Charging a fee for the preparation of a borrowers' application is ( expressly ex-pressly forbidden this year in Section Sec-tion 3 of the Act of Congress authorizing author-izing the crop production loans. Congress Con-gress further declared these loan funds "to be impressed with a trust to accomplish the purposes provided for by this resolutionand it shall Ibe unlawful for any person to make any material false representation for the purpose of obtaining any loan or to assist in obtaining such loan or to dispose of or assist in disposing of any crops given as security for any loan made under authority of this resolution, except for the account ac-count of the Secretary of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, and for the purpose of carrying carry-ing out the provisions of this resolution. reso-lution. Teeth for Section 3 are provided in a clause which orders a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both, for any person found guilty of violating vio-lating the above provisions. The remaining regulations announced an-nounced by Secretary Hyde are similar sim-ilar to those in force last year. An absolute first lien on all of the crops grown by the borrower in 1933 is required by the act. In counties where fertilizer' is not commonly used, the rate of loans must not exceed ex-ceed $3 an acre for general field crops and $12 an acre for truck crops, including potatoes. In counties coun-ties where fertilizer is commonly used, according to the testimony of representatives of the Department of Agriculture, the rate must not exceed ex-ceed $6 an acre for general field crops, $10 an acre for tobacco, and S20 an acre for truck crops, including includ-ing potatoes. Not to exceed $1 an acre of loans made at any of these rates may be used for repairs and miscellaneous expenses of crop pro-auction pro-auction other than seed, fertilizer, feed for workstock, and fuel and oil for tractors. SXjcia provision is made for addi-:ional addi-:ional loans within the maximum illowed per farmer for the purchase )f materials for .spraying and dutst-ng, dutst-ng, to protect crops from insects ind diseases; for payment of water :harges, electric power, etc. necessary neces-sary to crop production on irrigated irrigat-ed land; for production expenses in-;lud:ng in-;lud:ng employment of hand labor, jn sugar beets, sugar cane, hops, md rice. Loans may also be made his year for .summer fallowing, not o exceed $2.50 an acre for acreage |