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Show Government Will Not Fix Price Of Wheat Under the domestic allotment plan of the federal agricultural e-mergency e-mergency act as applied to wheat, the United States government will not fix the price of wheat nor will it take any of this product from the growers, according to Director William Peterson' of the Utah State Agricultural college exension service, ser-vice, who has been designated manager for the act in Utah. In its contract, copies of which will be placed before each wheat-grower wheat-grower in the country to sign, the government offers a commission of 30 cents a bushel for five-eighths of the wheat yielded on farms in 1930, 1931, 1932, based on the average aver-age yields of the past three years, provided the famers agree to curtail cur-tail their 1934 and 1935 plantings not more than 20 per cent below the average acreage of the base period. The government will not rent the land thrown out of wheat production, produc-tion, according to Director Peterson, Peter-son, but the secretary of agriculture agricul-ture may designate certain national nation-al crops that cannot be grown on this land. Forage crops, barley, cats or sugar beets may be grown in place of wheat. Federal officials or their representatives repre-sentatives will make careful surveys sur-veys in each locality to determine what portion of the wheat producing produc-ing areas will satisfy the curtailment curtail-ment decree of the secretary of agriculture. Wheat growers will be afforded an opportunity to sign the government govern-ment contracts between July and October of this year. According to present plans there will be no contracts con-tracts made following those dates. Farmers who break contracts before be-fore their fulfillment in 1935 will be classed as borrowers from the government and all commissions paid to them must be returned to the treasury at Washington, D. C. the manager said. i |