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U.S. WHEAT ACREAGE RESTRICTIONS LIFTED (Received March 21, 2 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 20. The Agricultural Adjustment, Commission has lifted the. restrictions on the planting of spring wheat, and farmers Have reported that, 17,847,000 acres will ae planted, an increase of 8,557,000 acres over 1934. , The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry Wallace, said he would permit farmers who had agreed to reduce production by 10 per cent, to plant the full acreage, and compensate for it by a larger reduction of acreage in 1936. I'he action was taken to avoid a reduction of the yield and possible importations of wheat resulting from a possible recurrence of droughts in several major wheat producing States where the rainfall and subsoil moisture were still .subnormal.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18661, 22 March 1935, Page 6
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