Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXVII, Number 34, 4 March 1936 — FARM PROGRAM GETS APPROVAL [ARTICLE]

FARM PROGRAM GETS APPROVAL

CQngresg last Thursd.ay completed action on the admmistration's farm bill and sent . the measure to the White House.

President Roosevelt was expected to sign the measure without delay in order to put into early effect the New Deal prograin ,to combiue the eeonomie' assistance o£ farmers with sciontific conservation of the nation's soil resourcosi. The program provides for large seal& managenient without precedent in modern history.

Both the Senate and Houjse has adopted tlie conference report of the ineasure. A ta.x progranx to provide funds for putting the measure iuto full effect is expected to be submitted to Congress this wc«k.

The Agrieultura! Ailjustment Administration, it was expected >vill be the agency used to make payments to the farmers for taking the land out of production and~tf> see that sueh oporntion is coordinateiī with the intended purpose of avorting crop surpluses and nuiintiiining an adetiuale level of farm conimodities prices.

T{\\; n»'sv fnrin plaai the fovm of ;iu mondmont <o (iie ex\Hting act of 1935 "to provido for the pio(.ection of land resourees against soil erosion." This act \vas originally adopted to prevent any recun-enoe of the wholosa!o disaster that threatened large western agricnltural regions after the devasting drouth of 19"4. The ieehniea.l foroes of the soil eonservation services, alreudy «uiuhering 800 expvrts, wil] be e.Ni>anded to assist loeal agricultura.l offieials in the fanu scetions in detenuining wlmt !and shou!d be taken* out of produc- J lio». I A<nuiuistration scientists exi\ressed ct)Ufidenee the «e\v farm uid i'rofiram in coordiuation with seieutific soil coftservution will prove ouo of ihe most imt>ortant iiinovatlons on Uuko scalo land Huuvagement that luts bceu in moiteru timos. '