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Show Lamb Producers j Urged to Keep Adequate Records Chairman Claude Hunting of the Utah County Agricultural Stabilization Stabil-ization and Conservation Committee Commit-tee today urged producers who market lambs this fall to obtain and save adequate records of their sales in order to make proper applications ap-plications for payment under the j vool incentive program. Records ! of all purchases are also required. Chairman Hunting pointed out that next spring when the payment applications are due may be too late to get sales records which must include the name of the buyer, buy-er, his signature, and the number and liveweight of the lambs sold with the description "unshorn" showing. Payments are made only on lambs which have never been shorn. Although the final date for filing payment applications for 1957-58 marketings is April 30, 1958, producers may submit payment pay-ment applications to ASC county offices at any time between now and then. L a m b feeders, particularly, should keep accurate records of the length of time they have owned own-ed a specific lot of lambs. Lamb payments are made only to those producers who have owned the lambs for 30 days or more. Accurate and adequate records of lamb sales and purchases are required because each owner who markets unshorn lambs is eligible for a payment based on the weight produced during his ownership. The rate of payment is a fixed amount per hundredweight based on the shorn wool incentive payment. The payment for the past marketing year (1956-57) was 71 cents per hundredweight. The rate for the 1957-58 marketing year, which runs from April 1, 1957 through March 31, 1958, will be determined early in the summer of 1958 when the wool Incentive rate becomes known. Lamb payments are authorized by the National Wool Act of 1954 and are designed to encourage normal marketing of lambs with the wool on. The Act provides for an incentive payment on wool to encourage increased production. |