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Show AAA to corr.rol corn-hog production I ! and the recent vote favored a con- I tinuation of the program in the ' state, Director Pet-erson pointed out. I Corn-Hog Contract For Two Years Work has been started on the contract con-tract for the new two-year adjustment adjust-ment prctrram for corn and hogs following conferences in Washington of producers, state agricultural specialists, spec-ialists, and Agricultural Adjustment administration officials on fundamental funda-mental details of the new program, according to Director William Peterson Peter-son of the Utah State Agricultural college. Since a major adjustment problem is to prevent an excessive production produc-tion of hogs in 1937, a contract of more than one year's duration is necessary, it was pointed out at the Washington conference. A two-year contract, it was thought, would be welcomed by farmers in order that they might plan their farming operations op-erations more than one year in advance. ad-vance. The main objective of the new program will be to maintain a bal- ance between the production and consumption of corn and hogs during dur-ing the next two years. To accomplish accom-plish this objective, it will be necessary neces-sary to (1) prevent an excessive production pro-duction of corn in 1936 and 1937, (2) allow an increase in next year's pig crop that would be at least as great as it is estimated would take place were no adjustment program in effect, ef-fect, and (3) prevent an excessive increase in-crease in the 1937 pig crop. The Adjustment administration has recommended that corn produc- ' tion next year be limited to 95 million mil-lion acres, or about 10 million fewer than would be likely to be harvested without adjustment. This would require re-quire an aggregate adjustment of approximately 20 per cent on the part of all contract signers. Depending Depend-ing upon the 1936 corn crop and the demand expected next fall for the 1937 crop, a maximum corn reduction reduc-tion of 25 per cent has been proposed for 1937. Proposed hog adjustments are calculated cal-culated to provide for a 30 per cent increase in federally inspected slaughter in 1936-37 above the slaughter expected in the present marketing year which began October 1, 1935. It is believed that a permitted per-mitted hog production equal to 100 per cent of the base will allow for the desired increase in hog numbers next year. The new corn -hog contract will require that an area at least equal to the number of acres held out of corn be added to the usual area of the farm devoted to soil-improving and erosion-preventing uses. This year more than 2100 farmers in Utah signed contracts with the |