Henderson Daily Dispatch

South Holds
Answer For
Farm Puzzle
Vote Next Saturday
May Make or Break
Administration Crop
Control Program
Washington,
Dec. 6.-(AP)-The
South, called by some the nation's
economic problem child, holds the
power this week of boosting or blasting
the administration's farm program.
Three separate regional ballots next
Saturday will determine whether cotton,
rice and tobacco farmers want
marketing quotas for those crops next
year. From these referenda will come
answers to questions more sharply
stated. and with a more direct bearing
on administration policies than
some presented by the November elections.
The farmers will be asked, in effect:
Do you want to go ahead with efforts
to get more for what you grow
by holding down production?
If two-thirds of those voting answer
"Yes," quotas will be set for the
amount of cotton, rice and three types
of tobacco to be sold next year. These
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quotas are figured on the basis of the total crop and are divided, first, among the states, next among the counties, finally among the farmers.
Those who plant or produce more than their quotas will be taxed on the amount they sell outside the quotas.
If the producers say "No," they may plant and sell all they wish. The price will be left to take care of itself in a market that already has swaying surpluses. Cotton farmers would get no loans. Benefits would be trimmed for rice and tobacco growers.