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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3 D SESS.-CH. 30 -FEB. 16, 1938 In no event shall the farm marketing quota for any farm be less than the normal production of half the farm acreage allotment for the farm. (d) No farm marketing quota with respect to wheat shall be applicable in any marketing year to any farm on which the normal production of the acreage planted to wheat of the current crop is less than one hundred bushels. REFERENDUM SEC. 336. Between the date of the issuance of any proclamation of any national marketing quota for wheat and June 10, the Secre- tary shall conduct a referendum, by secret ballot, of farmers who will be subject to the quota specified therein to determine whether such farmers favor or oppose such quota. If more than one-third of the farmers voting in the referendum oppose such quota, the Secre- tary shall, prior to the effective date of such quota, by proclamation suspend the operation of the national marketing quotas with respect to wheat. ADJUSTMENT AND SUSPENSION OF QUOTAS SEC. 337. (a) If the total supply as proclaimed by the Secretary within forty-five days after the beginning of the marketing year is less than that specified in the proclamation by the Secretary under section 335 (a), then the national marketing quota specified in the proclamation under such section shall be increased accordingly. (b) Whenever it shall appear from either the July or the August production estimates, officially published by the Division of Crop and Livestock Estimates of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department, that the total supply of wheat as of the begin- ning of the marketing year was less than a normal year's domestic consumption and exports plus 30 per centum thereof, the Secretary shall proclaim such fact prior to July 20, or August 20, as the case may be, if farm marketing quotas have been announced with respect to the crop grown in such calendar year. Thereupon such quotas shall become ineffective. TRANSFER OF QUOTAS SEC. 338. Farm marketing quotas for wheat shall not be trans- ferable, but, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secre- tary for such purpose, any farm marketing quota in excess of the supply of wheat for such farm for any marketing year may be allo- cated to other farms on which the acreage allotment has not been exceeded. PENALTIES SEC. 339. Any farmer who, while farm marketing quotas are in effect, markets wheat in excess of the farm marketing quota for the farm on which such wheat was produced, shall be subject to a penalty of 15 cents per bushel of the excess so marketed. PART IV-MARKETING QUOTAS--COTTON LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS SEC. 341. American cotton is a basic source of clothing and indus- trial products used by every person in the United States and by sub- stantial numbers of people in foreign countries. American cotton is sold on a world-wide market and moves from the places of pro- 55 Minimum farm marketing quota. Small crop farms. Referendum. Effect of vote on quota. Adjustment and suspension of quotas. Transfer of quotas. Penalties. Part IV-Market- ing quotas-Cotton. Legislative findings.

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