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The second part of the Agricultural Adjustment program 

 comes under the heading of the ever-normal granary plan. This 

 plan is made up of three main ideas, the commodity loan, crop 

 insurance, and marketing quotas (see page 70). These three 

 projects were designed to adjust agriculture to the problems 

 that may come with future droughts, bumper crops, and similar 

 unpredictable changes of nature. The marketing quotas par' 

 ticularly were supposed to keep a balance between world 

 production and world markets. They apply only to wheat, 

 cotton, corn, tobacco, and rice, and, as we have seen, can only 

 be used when two thirds or more of the producers of these 

 crops agree to accept them. 



In addition to these two programs, the new Agricultural 

 Adjustment Administration has charge of handling surplus 

 crops which reduce prices in the regular farm markets. This 

 puts the Surplus Commodities Corporation directly under the 

 Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The majority of 

 these surpluses are distributed through relief programs to the 

 needy and unemployed. Another job of the new Agricultural 

 Adjustment Administration is to work out better marketing of 

 crops so that the producers will get more for what they grow. 

 Finally, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has been 

 given the control of the government division which is trying to 

 find new markets and uses for agricultural products. 



The Farm Security Administration has the job of making 

 the farmer secure on his land. It makes loans to farmers for 

 rehabilitation (see page 75). It administers that part of the 

 Bankhead Jones Farm Tenancy Act (see page 76) which helps 

 tenant farmers to make long term leases with landowners, or 

 buy land of their own. In the case of farmers on hopelessly 

 unproductive land, the Farm Security Administration has 

 the power to grant relief money. The important thing about 

 the loans offered by the Farm Security program is that no loans 



