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Committee
Duties Listed
ASC farmer-committeemen, who will soon be ele'cted by their -neighbors for the coming.year, have Important program responsibilities, accord ing to H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee. “This makes it all the more important that representative farmers be elected to the job," he declared. ASC com m ittees have cha rge j of local field administration^ of such national farm programs as acreage allotments, marketing quotas, commodity loans, the feed grain program, the National Wool program, the Agricultural Conservation Program, and farm storage facility loans. Other duties are assigned to the committees by the Secretary of Agriculture as the need arises. The Chairman explained that each year, farmers who are taking part or are eligible to take part in one or more of the farm programs which the committees administer elect a community committee from among their own number. The chairman, vice chairman, and regular member of this committee also serve respectively as delegate, alternate delegate and second alternate delegate to a county convention, where the ASC county committee is elected. In Rappahannock County, the farmers who are eligible to vote for the community committee will cast their ballots' by m^il.1 Final date for ballots to be postmarked or returned in person is October 15, 1963. When you receive your ballot be sure to vote and return it to the ASCS office.
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