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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
RELATIVE TO COTTON AND
ACREAGE PLANTING ALLTOMENT
In an effort to help Georgia
ers understand the Farm Plan
The Covington News asked the
Georgia Agricultural Extension Ser
vice to answer a series of questions
relating to the new program and
how it affects cotton.
If you are a cottpn farmer study
these questions and answers.
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every effort to determine how
as would, now affect you individual
ly and how they would affect all
producers, consumers and the coun
try generally. The recent vote of
farmers and land owners proved
thei r interest in the farm program
Here are the questions and an
swers;
GENERAL FEATURES OF ACT
Q. What is the Agricultural Ad
justment Act of 1938?
A. An Act of Congress, approved
:y the President February 16, 1938
...lich, among other things, contin
ics, amends, and strengthens the j
Soil Conservation and Domestic Al- j
iotment Act and provides authority
for the control of burdensom sur-
pluses in five major commodities.
Q. What are the five commodities?
A. Cotton, tobacco, rice, corn, and
wheat.
Q. In what v-ay does the Act pro
vide control of surpluses of these
crops?
A. After supplies reach certain
levels, marketing of the crops is reg
ulated through the imposition of
quotas.
Q. Who will put the quotas into
affect?
A. The Act puts them into ef
fect, but they are subject to rejec
tion by referendum vote of produc
ers.
Q. How will this control surpluses?
A. By providing penalties on sales
in excess of quotas.
MARKETING QUOTAS FOR
COTTON
Q. When will cotton marketing
quotas be put into effect?
A. Whenever the supply of cotton
exceeds the normal supply by more
than 7 percent, unless quotas are
opposed by more than one-third
of the producers. Quotas will be
effective in 1938, unless disapproved
by more than if-third of the cot
ton producers voting in the referen
dum to be held on March 12.
Q. What is a "normal supply” for
1938?
A. Approvimately . , 18 ______ 200,000 _ bales. ,
Normal supply is defined in the
Act as a normal year s domestic
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consumption and exports, plus 40
percent as an allowance for a nor
mal carry-over.
Q. What is the present supply of
American cotton?
A. Almost 25,000,000 bales, result
ing largely from the record crop
of 18,700,000 bales In 1937.
Q. If marketing quotas are approv
ed for cotton, what steps will be
taken to put them into effect on
individual farms?
A. The national cotton allotment
proclaimed by the Secretary of Ag
riculture in terms of bales will be
allocated to the States, in terms of
the acres which, with average yields,
would produce the national allot
ment, and the acreage allocated to
the States will be apportioned to
counties or administrative areas in
the States and ultimately to farms,
Q. What is the total cotton acre
age which will be allotted to States,
counties, and terms in 1938?
A. Approximately 26 300,000 acres,
Q. On the basis of average yields,
how much cotton is expected to be
produced on this number of acres?
A - Between 10,500,000 and 11,500,
000 hales.
Q. How do cotton marketing quot
as under the Adjustment Act of
differ from the quotas under the
Bankhead Act?
A. Under the Bankhead Act each
cotton producer received a poundage
a u 0 tment and paid a tax on all
cotton Binned in excess of that allot
ment . under the Adjustment Act
of i 938i each cotton farm will re
j ce i ve an acreage allotment, and all
\ cotton produced on the acreage al
lotment may be sold without any
penalty.
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I Q. Will marketing quotas apply
I to all cotton?
A. Yes, except that they will not
apply to cotton with a staple of 1
1-8 inches or longer, such as Geor
gia’s Sea Island cotton.
REFERENDUM
Q. When will farmers vote on
1938 cotton quotas?
A. On March 12, 1938.
Q. Who will be eligible to vote in
the cotton referendum?
A. All farmers who produced cot
ton in 1937.
i Q. Who will be in charge of the
voting in the cotton referendum?
A. The County Committee and the
county agent. They will select a
voting place in each community and
will select three local farmers to
hold the referendum.
1 Q. Will the ballot be secret?
A. Yes.
Q. If two-thirds of the farmers
taking part in the referendum vote
for cotton quotas, will they apply
to States, counties, and communi
ties where they are not approved?
A. Yes, the cotton problem is a
national problem and not confined
to any State or county. Consequent
ly, the quotas will apply wherever
cotton is produced.
APPORTIONMENT OF ALLOT
MENTS
Q. How wilt the national cotton
iHctment be divided?
A. The national allotment will be
Uvided among the cotton-growing
'tetes on the basis of the produc
.on of cotton in each State
he preceding five years, taking
ito account the acres diverted from
otton.
Q. How will the State cotton al -
ctments be divided?
A. Each State’s allotment
! .erms of bales is translated into
acres and divided among counties
| on the basis of the acreage planted the
j to cotton in each county during
years 1933-1937, incusive, taking into
I consideration the acres diverted
from cotton, but whatever addition
al allotment is necessary will be
made to assure that no county shall
i receive less than 60 percent of the
1 sum. of the acreage planted in
and the acreage diverted from cot
ton under the 1937 program,
Q. How will the county cotton al
Iotment be divided among farms?
A. It will be divided among
farms on which cotton has been
planted in any of the past three
years as follows. All farms which
Lmve not planted and diverted as
muc ^ as 5 acres of cotton in any
°* three years, will receive as
their allotments the largest num
ber of acres planted and diverted in
ar *y one °t the three years,
All farms on which 5 acres or
more of cotton were planted and di
verted in any of the three years,
will receive as their allotments five
acres and an additional amount
which will bring the total allotment
up to a percentage of the farm crop
land (excluding acreages devoted tc
wheat, tobacco, and rice) which
will be the same for all farm,-, in the
county, or administrative area. Pro
vision is made for a small county
reserve which may be allotted to
farms receiving 5 to 15 acres under
the above provision.
q f arms producing cotton
m 1938, but which did not produce
cotton during any of the past three
years, receive allotments?
A . Y es, a small reserve acreage
wll! be available in each State to
be divided among these farms,
Q. What is the marketing quota
of the individual cotton farmer?
A It ls the cot ton produced on
his allotted ac res , 0 r the normal
whiche ve r is the greater.
PENALTIES
Q. What is the penalty for mar
keting cotton produced in 1938 in
excess of the farm's marketing
quota?
A. Two cents a pound on the ex
cess production sold, to be collect
ed by the buyer.
Q. If quotas are in effect, what is
the disadvantage to a farmer if he
knowingly plants cotton on his farm
in excess of the farm acreage allot
ment?
A. He loses (1) all soil conserva
tion payments; ( 2 ) his cotton price
adjustment payment; and <3) the
oportunity to obtain a loan on the
marketing quota for the farm. How
ever, he may receive a loan on cot
ton produced in excess of his mar
keting quota at 60 percent of the
rate to cooperators,
Q. Do all farms have to pay the
penalty on excess cotton?
A. No, the penalty does not apply
to cotton produced on any farm
which has received a cotton acreage
allotment and on which the
duction is 1000 pounds of lint cotton
or less,
PAYMENTS
Q. What payments may cotton
producers receive in 1938?
A. Producers , 7 ho comply with the
program will receive conservation
payments and those otherwise eligi
ble will receive cotton price adjust
ment payments on a portion of their
1937 crop. No additional payments
have been provided in connection
with marketing quotas.
LOANS
Q. Does the program provide for
cotton loans?
a. Yes.
Q. Are loans to be available in
1938?
A. Yes, but only if marketing quot
as are in effect. If quotas are reject
ed on March 12 by vote of the
ducers, loans will not be available
before August 1, 1939.
Q. What will the cotton loan rate
be?
A. The Act provides tjjat the loan
rate for 7-8 inch middlnig cotton
is to be fixed between 52 and 75 per
cent of the parity price of cotton,
The loan rate may be increased or
decreased in relation to grade and
j staple.
j Q. Under what conditions
cent of parity or (2) when the Aug
ust crop estimate for cotton i, great
er than a normal year’s domestic
consumption and exports, unless
marketing quotas have been rejected
during the preceding marketing
year; or are later rejected during
the current marketing year.
SAFEGUARDS
Q. What provision is there for a
review of a cotton producer’s mar
keting quota which seems unfair to
him?
A, Provision is made for appeals
to a review committee of a farmers
other than members of the local
committees which made the allot
ment.
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may ’ under certain conditions, ter
ruinate quotas or he may increase
p y a uniform per entage the amount
of cott/0n proc } Ucers may market in
or der to make a normal supply of
co tton available,
Farmers are interested in the beef
cattle industry because they make
some money from it. Prices were fav
orable and pastures were successful
throughout last year and most farm
ers realized a profit from their beef
enterprise.
Experiments prove that a good
crop of legumes turned under in the
spring will add an equivalent of from
two to four hundred pounds of ni
trate of soda per acre. In addition
to improving the soil, these crops
make excellent feed and grazing for
livestock.
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