Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 52.djvu/73

 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 30 -FEB. 16, 1938 utilization of local, payment is made. In carrying out the provisions of this section in etc., ommtteesthe continental United States, the Secretary is directed to utilize the services of local and State committees selected as hereinafter provided. Administrative The Secretary shall designate local administrative areas as units for areas; restriction administration of programs under this section. No such local area shall include more than one county or parts of different counties. Selection of local Farmers within any such local administrative area, and participating commaittees. or cooperating in programs administered within such area, shall elect annually from among their number a local committee of not more than three members for such area and shall also elect annually from among their number a delegate to a county convention for the elec- eounty committee, tion of a county committee. The delegates from the various local election, composition, de etc. areas in the county shall, in a county convention, elect, annually, the county committee for the county which shall consist of three members tselectiongbsecre- who are farmers in the county. The local committee shall select a county agent. secretary and may utilize the county agricultural extension agent for such purpose. The county committee shall select a secretary who may be the county agricultural extension agent. If such county agricultural extension agent shall not have been elected secretary of such committee, he shall be ex officio a member of the county com- mittee. The county agricultural extension agent shall not have the power to vote. In any county in which there is only one local committee the local committee shall also be the county committee. State committee, In each State there shall be a State committee for the State composed of not less than three or more than five farmers who are legal resi- Et officio members dents of the State and who are appointed by the Secretary. The committees. State director of the Agricultural Extension Service shall be ex officio a member of such State committee. The ex officio members of the county and State committees shall be in addition to the number of members of such committees hereinbefore specified. The Secre- tary shall make such regulations as are necessary relating to the selection and exercise of the functions of the respective committees, and to the administration, through such committees, of such pro- Protection of inter- grams. In carrying out the provisions of this section, the Secre- sharecroppers. tary-shall, as far as practicable, protect the interests of tenants and sharecroppers; is authorized to utilize the agricultural extension Producer-controlled service and other approved agencies; shall accord such recognition cooperati ve associa- tions. and encouragement to producer-owned and producer-controlled coop- erative associations as will be in harmony with the policy toward cooperative associations set forth in existing Acts of Congress and as will tend to promote efficient methods of marketing and distribu- ndPowe t au'eenc tion; shall not have power to acquire any land or any right or interest therein; shall, in every practicable manner, protect the inter- ests of small producers; and shall in every practical way encourage and provide for soil-conserving and soil-rebuilding practices rather Rules, etc., govern- than the growing of soil-depleting crops. Rules and regulations governing payments or grants under this subsection shall be as simple and direct as possible, and, wherever practicable, they shall be classi- fied on two bases: (a) Soil-depleting crops and practices, (b) soil- building crops and practices. apcreageallotment s, "(c) (1) In apportioning acreage allotments under this section in the case of wheat and corn, the National and State allotments and the allotments to counties shall be apportioned annually on the basis of the acreage seeded for the production of the commodity during the ten calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year in which the national acreage allotment is determined (plus, in appli- cable years, the acreage diverted under previous agricultural adjust- Adjustments. ment and conservation programs), with adjustments for abnormal weather conditions and trends in acreage during the applicable period. 32 [52 STAT.

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