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 75TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION-CH. 898-SEP TEMBER 1, 1937 911 quota (and provide a normal carryover inventory) estimated by the Secretary for such area for the calendar year during which the larger part of the sugar or liquid sugar from such crop normally would be marketed. (b) In determining the proportionate shares with respect to a shges, ie r termlnation farm, the Secretary may take into consideration the past production of. on the farm of sugar beets and sugarcane marketed (or processed) for the extraction of sugar or liquid sugar and the ability to produce such sugar beets or sugarcane, and the Secretary shall, insofar as practicable, protect the interests of new producers and small pro- ducers and the interests of producers who are cash tenants, share- tenants adherent planters, or share-croppers. (c) i'ayments shall be effective with respect to sugar or liquid Payments, w hen sugar commercially recoverable from sugar beets and sugarcane grown on a farm and which shall have been marketed (or processed by the producer) on and after July 1, 1937. SEC. 303. In addition to the amount of sugar or liquid sugar with deticnees ' etc respect to which payments are authorized under subsection (a) of section 302, the Secretary is also authorized to make payments, on the conditions provided in section 301, with respect to bona-fide abandonment of planted acreage and crop deficiencies of harvested acreage, resulting from drought, flood, storm, freeze, disease, or insects, which cause su ch damag e to all or a sub stantial part of the crop of sugar beets or sugarcane in the same factory district (as established by the Secretary), county, parish, municipality, or local producing area, as determined in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary, on the following quantities of sugar or liquid su ga r : (1) With respect to such bon a-fide abandonment of each planted acre of sugar beets or sugarcane, one-third of the normal yield of commercially recoverable sugar or liquid sugar per acre for the farm, as determined by the Secretary ; and (2) with respect to such crop deficiencies of harvested acreage of sugar beets or sugarcane, the excess of 80 per centum of the normal yield of com- mercial ly recov erable s ugar or liquid su gar for such acr eage for the farm, as determined by the Secretary, over the actual yield. SEC. 304. (a) The amount of the base rate of payment shall be 60 Rate of payment. cents per hundred pounds of sugar or liquid sugar, raw value. (b) All payments shall be calculated with respect to a farm which, computation for the purposes of this Act, shall be a farming unit as determined in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary, and in mak- ing suc h determ inations, the Se cretary s hall tak e into c onsidera tion the use of common work stock, equipment, labor, management, and other pertinent factors. (c) The total payment with respect to a farm shall be the product of the base rate specified in subsection (a) of this section multiplied by the amount of sugar and liquid sugar, raw value, with respect to which payment is to be made, except that reductions shall be made from such total payment in accordance with the following scale of Scale of reduetians. re duc ti ons Red ucti on in the base rate That portion of the quantity of sugar and liquid sugar which is of pay ment included within the following intervals of short tons, raw per hun dre d- weight of value : such porti on 500 to 1 .500 $0 .0 50 1,500 to 6,000 5 6,000 to 12,000 .100 12,000 to 30,000 .1 25 More than 30 .000 .3 00