Regulating Production On American Farms
CORN LAW PROGRAMME United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copy rig'n t. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. The Secretary for Agriculture, Mr H. A. Wallace, announced that MidWest farmers will next, year be asked to keep corn acreage and hog numbers only 10 per cent, below the 1932-33 average production, assuming that normal weather conditions will permit the production of 250,000,000 bushels of corn in excess of the estimated requirement for livestock feeding.
This excess, if produced again, will be sealed under the corn loan programme which will be in force next year. The reductions compare with the present 20 to 30 per cent, corn reduction and 25 per cent, hog numbers reduction.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 274, 22 November 1934, Page 9
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