Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, First-[second] SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - Agriculture |
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Page 52 - The purpose of the county committee shall be to direct the administration of sections 7 to 17, inclusive, of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act...
Page 47 - Market", in the case of corn, cotton, rice, tobacco, and wheat, means to dispose of, in raw or processed form, by voluntary or involuntary sale, barter, or exchange, or by gift inter vivos, and, in the case of corn and wheat, by feeding (in any form) to poultry or livestock which, or the products of which, are sold, bartered, or exchanged, or to be so disposed of...
Page 48 - Such powers shall not be used to discourage the production of supplies of foods and fibers sufficient to maintain normal domestic human consumption as determined by the Secretary from the records of domestic human consumption in the years 1920 to 1929, inclusive, taking into consideration increased population, quantities of any commodity that were forced into domestic consumption by decline in exports during such period, current...
Page 57 - The several district courts of the United States are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this act; and it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States, in their respective districts, under the direction of the Attorney General, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations.
Page 136 - The acreage allotment to the county for corn shall be apportioned by the Secretary, through the local committees, among the farms within the county on the basis of the tillable acreage on such farms.
Page 4 - ... and marketing the products thereof. Except for preliminary investigations, the amount expended by the Federal Government under this section in cooperation with any State or other cooperating agency during any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount expended by the State or other cooperating agency for the same purpose during the same fiscal year, and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make expenditures on the certificate of the appropriate State official that the State expenditures,...
Page 133 - The national acreage allotment for any crop of wheat shall be that acreage which the Secretary determines will, on the basis of the national average yield for wheat, produce an amount thereof adequate, together with the estimated carryover at the beginning of the marketing year for such crop...
Page 54 - If application is made to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence, and it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that such additional evidence...
Page 54 - If the farmer is dissatisfied with the determination of the review committee, he may, within fifteen days after a notice of such determination is mailed to him by registered mail, file a bill in equity...
Page 51 - Amount of farm marketing quota, (c) The farm marketing quota for any farm for any marketing year shall be a number of bushels of wheat equal to the sum of — (1) A number of bushels equal to the normal production or the actual production, whichever is the greater, of the farm acreage allotment; and (2) A number of bushels equal to the amount, or part thereof, of wheat from any previous crop which the farmer has on hand which, had such amount, or part thereof, been marketed during the preceding marketing...