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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 30 -FEB. 16, 1938 Acreage allotment. Post, pp. 202, 205. Apportionment of acreage allotment. Proviso. Limitation. County allotment. Part Ill-Market- ing quotas-Wheat. Legislative findings. the Secretary shall ascertain and proclaim the commercial corn- producing area. The ascertainment and proclamation of the com- mercial corn-producing area for 1938 shall be made not later than ten days after the date of the enactment of this Act. ACREAGE ALLOTMENT SEC. 328. The acreage allotment of corn for any calendar year shall be that acreage in the commercial corn-producing area which, on the basis of the average yield for corn in such area during the ten calendar years immediately preceding such calendar year will pro- duce an amount of corn in such area which the Secretary determines will, together with corn produced in the United States outside the commercial corn-producing area, make available a supply for the marketing year beginning in such calendar year, equal to the reserve supply level. The Secretary shall proclaim such acreage allotment not later than February 1 of the calendar year for which such acreage allotment was determined. The proclamation of the acreage allot- ment for 1938 shall be made as soon as practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act. APPORTIONMENT OF ACREAGE ALLOTMENT SEC. 329. (a) The acreage allotment for corn shall be apportioned by the Secretary among the counties in the commercial corn-pro- ducing area on the basis of the acreage seeded for the production of corn during the ten calendar years immediately preceding the cal- endar year in which the apportionment is determined (plus, in applicable years, the acreage diverted under previous agricultural adjustment and conservation programs), with adjustments for abnormal weather conditions and for trends in acreage during such period and for the promotion of soil-conservation practices: Pro- vided, That any downward adjustment for the promotion of soil- conservation practices shall not exceed 2 per centum of the total acreage allotment that would otherwise be made to such county. (b) The acreage allotment to the county for corn shall be appor- tioned by the Secretary, through the local committees, among the farms within the county on the basis of tillable acreage, crop-rotation practices, type of soil, and topography. PART III--MARKETINO QUOTAS-WIIEAT LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS SEC. 331. Wheat is a basic source of food for the Nation, is pro- duced throughout the United States by more than a million farmers, is sold on the country-wide market and, as wheat or flour flows almost entirely through instrumentalities of interstate and foreign commerce from producers to consumers. Abnormally excessive and abnormally deficient supplies of wheat on the country-wide market acutely and directly affect, burden, and obstruct interstate and foreign commerce. Abnormally excessive supplies overtax the facilities of interstate and foreign transporta- tion, congest terminal markets and milling centers in the flow of wheat from producers to consumers, depress the price of wheat in interstate and foreign commerce, and otherwise disrupt the orderly marketing of such commodity in such commerce. Abnormally defi- cient supplies result in an inadequate flow of wheat and its products in interstate and foreign commerce with consequent injurious effects to the instrumentalities of such commerce and with excessive increases in the prices of wheat and its products in interstate and foreign commerce. 52 [52 STAT.

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