Williams Sees
Loss to Farmers
(By S. Clay Williams, of the R.
3. Reynolds Tobacco Co.)
"Greatly benefited as the pro
ducer of flue-cured tobacco has
been under the Agricultural Ad
justment Act he is now face to
face with the proposition that the
adoption of proposed amendments
to that Act may easily cost him
some $15,000,000.00 of possible
return from his 1935 crop.
The most unobserving proces
sor knows that these amendments
will pass or not according to the
attitude of producers toward them
and that Congress now believes
producers want the amendments
because they know they like the
present Act and Its results.
The secret of what Is about to
happen to the riue-cured tobacco
grower under the proposed amend
ments is that flue-cured tobacco
? different from practically all
other commodities covered by the
Act but like Its companion pro
duct cotton ? has to look to the
export trade for sale of about six
ty per cent of the volume pro
duced. That fact makes the pro
posed amendments affect the cur
rently good results to the grower
more than anybody connected with
AAA has been willing to admit,
though everybody saw the effect
of this difference In tha fall of
1933. With flue-cured tobacco
then selling at an average of 10
cents. domestic manufacturers
entered Into a marketing agree
ment to lift to at least 17 cents
the 40 per cent of the crop which
they would normally bay. Under
this agreement about $20,000,
000.00~of additional money was
put Into the market, the effect
of this was that, with tobacco for
domestic consumption and that
for export selling side by side
on the market, the lifting of the
one served to lift the other.
Through domestic manufacturers
putting $20,000,000.00 additional
into the market, the producers
drew out of it $38,000,000.00
more than they would have got
ten had the 10 cent average not
been lifted.
II pulling aauuiuuni yuuuaoc
money into the domestic side of
the market thus multiplied the
good effect for the growers, it
is to be expected that taking
money out of the domestic side
of the market will likewise mul
tiply the bad effect for the grow
ers. Until two weeks -ago the
Tobacco Admministrator - was as
suring manufacturers that the
processing tax on flue-cured to
bacco would be wholly removed
at October 1, 1935. Processors
have regarded the tax as tempor
ary and therefore there was no
reason for them to adjust inven
tory or buying policies to the
continuing burden of such a tax.
With the tax removed they would
have been able to spend on the
market floors this fall all of the
money that is available from their
cost sheets for purchase^ of leaf
But if the amendments as passed
by the House are passed by the
Senate, processors will be forced
to set aside from the amount
available to pay for leaf tobacco
enough to cover the unexpected
ly continue* tax. That reduces the
amount that they can spend on
the warehouse floors and, of
course, establishes a pressure
downward on price of tobacco for
domestic consumption. If the
tax thus to be made permanent is
the present 4.2 cents per pound
and it pushes down by 4.2 cents
the price which tbe domestic pro
cessor could otherwise pay, the
grower will presumably suffer a
similar reduction in the price he
will get for his tobaccos that are
bought for export.
True, government would have
the 4.2 cents to be collected on
tbe domestic purchase? whieh on
a 600,000,000 pound crop would
amount to about $10, 0?o, 000.00
? to distribute back to the farm
er, but with the export price mov
ing with the domestic price, the
farmer would presumably lose in
price on the export end . of his
crop the same 4.2 cents, or about
llfi, 000, 000. 00, for which govern
ment could make him no reim
bursement whatever. That's the
simple arithmetic of these "&m4nd
ments as demonstrated by What
happened in the fall of 1983. They
Can hurt tbe market price $25,
000,000.00 in order that AAA
may collecj,- $10,000,000.00 to
give bsck \o the growers months
after they could otherwise have
had it from the markets. And even
then the growers would be $15,
000,000.00 short.
The original Act has proved
highly beneficial to flue-cured, t?^
bacco growers, the control pro
gram is established, hu the sup
port of the growers and is not
WILDROOT
WAVE POWDER
Drought Daw Are Forgotten
DE8 MOINES, II ... Oe&arou rain* aad ebundant auaahine through
nut America '? foAd belt, Texas to Minnesota, now indicate bumper 'crop*
this j ear with drought week* and duat atonna of laat year forgotten. Photo
ihow June Caldwell, former lows 4-H Club qacea, waiat deep in a heavily
Oiled wheat field near here.
necessarily dependent on these a
mendments. It is known that Mr.!
Hutson, Tobacco Administrator,
whatever the proper price of to
bacco, would be to have only part
of this price paid to the growers
on the market and the balance
paid to them by AAA. That's all
right for the grower until parity ,
Is attained, but after parity is at
tained and control established,
baring these amendments force
on him a loss In the price of ex
port tobaccos which loss govern
ment cannot possibly reimburse
him for, presents a different situ
ation.
It is also known that Dr. Tug
well and Dr. Mordecai Etekiel,
Economic Advisor to AAA. want
to force curtailment of advertis
ing. Even if these amendments
increase the chance of their ac
complishing that purpose the
growers know that it was large
ly through advertising that the
market tor the high-priced to
baccos sold through cigarettes was
developed from 31,500.000 pounds
in 1811 to SCO, 000. 000 pounds in
1930, and that liberal advertising
Is necessary to sustain consump
tion and market.
Through being included in a
mendments covering many other
commodities that are not so much
affected by the special circumst
ances that affect tobacco, the
growers of it are about to have
these amendments put on them
because the Congress thinks that
growers generally want the a
mendments."
Timely Farm
Questions
Answered at State College
Question: How should land be I
prepared (or the first seeding of!
alfalfa?
Answer: A well prepared seed
bed Is necessary for best results!
in growing alfalfa and for this
reason the land should be plowed
fairly deep and be thoroughly pul
verised with a disc and harrow.
The land should be allowed to
stand at least a month after this
preparation in order that it may
settle. Frequent harrowings dur
ing that period will give good re
sults. As fall seeding is usually
more satisfactory in the Piedmont
and Coastal Plain sections the
land should be prepared the last!
of July or early August so that!
it wilj be ready for seeding froml
September 1 to 30.
Question: When should cock
erels be caponlzed to be ready!
for the Easter market!
Answer: Cockerels that are to
go to market as capons next Eas
ter should be caponlzed as early
as possible In July. It takes from
eight to eleven months to properly
develop and finish a capon and
those birds caponlzed In early
July should be ready for the mar
ket it proper development takes
place, ('art- should be taken that a
only healthy cockerels be selected I
an unhealthy birds either die t
from the operation or make poor >
development. ?
Question: How often should 1
dust my cotton to control boll i
weevil? ' (
Answer: Where there is as
much as a ten percent damage ,
the dustings should not be over
five days apart as long as this
damage remains. However, weath
er conditions will govern, to a
large extent, the actual number
of dustings to be made. Frequent!
showers and cloudy weather In
creases the damage and the ap
plication should be repeated if a
heavy rain falls within 24 hours
after any dusting. Aa long as
there are ten percent of the
squares punctured dustings should
be made every five days and in;
between if a heavy rain occurs. I
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