8 ■ GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



C National baleage allotment 



1. When proclaimed. — If cotton marketing quotas are proclaimed the Secretary 

 is required to proclaim a national baleage allotment for cotton. Such allotment 

 may also be i^roclaimed even though the supply situation is such as not to require 

 a proclamation of marketing quotas. In either event, the national baleaee allot- 

 ment for any calendar year must be proclaimed not later than November 15 of the 

 preceding calendar year (sec. 343 (a)). 



2. Amount. — The national baleage allotment is reouired to be expressed in 

 terms of standard bales of 500 pounds gross weight. The amount of such allot- 

 ment is the number of bales of cotton adequate, together with the estimated carry- 

 over as of August 1 of the succeeding calendar year and imports, to make available 

 a supply of cotton for the marketing year beginning in such succeeding calendar 

 year equal to the normal supply. In'no event, however, may the national allot- 

 ment be less than 10,000,000 bales plus a number of bales eciual to the production 

 from the additional number of acres which must be allotted to provide minimum 

 State, county and farm allotments (sees. 343 (b), (c), and 344 (i)). 



3. State baleage and acreage allotments. — The national baleage allotment (less the 

 amount added by reason of minimum State and countv acreage allotments) is re- 

 quired to be apportioned among the several States on the basis of cotton produced 

 in the State during the five calendar years preceding the year in which such na- 

 tional allotment is determined. The State baleage allotment must then be con- 

 verted to acres on the basis of the average yield of cotton in the State during the 

 five calendar years used in computing the State baleage allotment. Each State 

 that produced at least 3,500 bales of cotton in any one of the five calendar years 

 preceding the year for which the State acreage allotment is made must be allotted 

 not less thali 5,000 acres. The number of acres thus allotted to the State is re- 

 ferred to as the "State acreage allotment" (sec. 344 (a), (b), (e) (2)). 



4- County acreage allotment. — The State acreage allotment (less the amount set 

 aside for "new" farms) is required to be apportioned to the counties in the State 

 on the basis of the acreage planted to cotton in the five calendar years preceding 

 the calendar year in which such apportionment is made, with adjustments for 

 weather and trends in acreage during such 5-year period. The Secretary is re- 

 quired, however, to allot to each county a number of acres eoual to not less than 

 60 percent of the sum of the acreage planted to cotton in 1937 p^us the acreage 

 "diverted" from cotton in 1937 under the adjustment and conservation program 

 (sec. 344 (c), (e) (1)). 



5. Farm acreage allotment — (a) Old farms. — The county acreage allotment is 

 required to be apportioned to farms on which cotton has been produced during 

 any one of the three preceding calendar years as follows: (1) each farm must first 

 be allotted the smaller of 5 acres or the highest planted plus "diverted" acreage 

 in any one of the three base period years; (2) not to exceed 3 percent of the re- 

 mainder of the county acreage allotment must then be allotted, upon such basis 

 as the Secretary deems fair and equitable, to farms which receive 5 acres under 

 step (1) above but not more than 15 acres under step (3) below; and (3) the 

 remainder of the county allotment must then be apportioned to farms receiving 

 5 acres under step (1) so as to give each such farm an allotment (including the 

 5 acres) which bears the same relationship to the cropland (as defined) on the 

 farm in the preceding year as the county allotment bears to the cropland on all 

 such farms in the county in the preceding year, except that tlie allotment so 

 calculated may not exceed the highest planted plus "diverted" acreage on the 

 farm in any one of the three base-period years. These "initial" farm acreage 

 allotments are required to be increased (i) by apportioning an acreage equal to 

 4 percent of the State acreage allotment to certain small allotment farms and to 

 farms on which allotments «are inadequate or unrepresentative for stated reasons; 

 and (ii) by allotting to each farm an acreage equal to not less than 50 percent of 

 the sum of the acreage platited to cotton in 1937 plus the acreage "diverted" 

 from cotton in 1937 under the adjustment and conservation program, but in no 

 case may the allotment be increased under this "50 percent" provision above 40 

 percent of the acreage of cropland on such farm. 



(6) New farms. — Not more than 2 percent of the State acreage allotment is 

 required to be apportioned to farms in the State on which no cottoTi was produced 

 during any one of the three base period years. '^ The new farm allotments are 

 to be made on the basis of land, laljor, and equipment available for the production 

 of cotton, crop-rotation practices, and the soil and other physical facilities affecting 

 the production of the cotton on the farm (sec. 344 (c) (2), (d), (g), (h)). 



" Undor public law 12, 79th Cong., any farm with a 1942 cotton allotment may qualify as an "old" farm 

 if certain designated war crops were produced thereon during the war emergency years 1945, 1940, and 1947. 



