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production, was in operation for the one year 1950.
Here is the reason for the referendum, as explained by P. A. Lewis, State Chairman of the Production and Marketing Administration, under whose direction the wheat vote will be conducted in Virginia.
“The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938,. as amended, required the Secretary of Agriculture to proclaim” wheat marketing quotas on a crop when the total supply at the beginning of the procedihg marketing year exceeds the normal supply by more than 20 per cent,” Lewis said. On July 1, the beginning of the 1953 marketing year, there was 1,717,000,000 bushels of wheat already harvested or in prospect of being harvested. This is the largest supply in the Nation’s history.
“The Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates that a normal supply for this year would be 1,156,000,000. This means that our total supply of wheat exceeds our' normal supply by 48 per cent. Under such condition it is mandatory that the Secretary -call upon farmers to vote on the imposition production controls in the form of marketing quotas.”
For quotas to be in effect, they must be approved by at least twothirds of the eligible growers voting in the referendum. Lewis explained that an eligible voter will be one who has a 1954 wheat acreage allotment' larger than 15 acres or a farmer who states that he intends to plant more than 15 acres of wheat for grain for 1954. Farmers who grew wheat in one of the past three years will receive an acreage allotment before the referendum date, as well as new farmers who grew no wheat the past three years but who applied for an allotment before June 30, 1953.
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