per acre. By crowding the tobacco rows closer and closer together, and u. ::ig more and more fertilizer, farmers have been able to raise moie tobacco per acre, but the to bacco is generally pale and without the aroma wanted by the buyer. Thus the tobacco goes into the gov ernment support price pool. Several of the farmers opposed the plan because it penalizes per sonal incentive and “subsidizes for the lack of it." Senator Scott told the larmers at the meeting that they will be given another year to study the program befori it i; -en-d upon. It will be voted on by a referendum. Scott said each type of tobacco will be voted on separately. Another group that opposes Scott's idea is the Little Farmers Protec tive Association that was organized February 28 at Chatham. They went on record at that time “as opposing Senator Scott's bill regulating to bacco production by both poundage and acreage.” That group was organized to cor rect what they called “flaws in the existing system of allocating tobacco acreage." They charged that federal authorities have been unfair in dis tributing acreage allotments and have taken acreage from the small farmer and given it to the large grower.

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