| Summary: | Washington Farmers To Receive $1,750,000. Washington Farmers To Receive $1,750,000 Farmers in twenty Washington counties by January 1 will have received $1,750,000 from the federal government for the 1936 "moral obligation" payment under the former wheat adjustment program of the AAA, announces A. M. Camp, commodities representative, Extension Service, State College of Washington. This will be the final payments under the commodity control programs. The "moral obligation" payment is made to farmers who had signed contracts for the 1936 program and seeded fall wheat prior to January 6, 1936, when the control programs were suspended by the U. S. Supreme Court. More than 7,000 farmers will receive payments. When all payments are made on the 1936 contracts, the totals received by farmers in the state on the AAA wheat programs will amount to $18,000,000. The first program started in 1933. Counties involved include: Adams, Asotin, Clark, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Island, Klickitat, Lewis, Spokane, Walla Walla, Yakima, Benton, Okanogan, Stevens, Lincoln, and Whitman. Farmers in the first 14 named had received checks by Thanksgiving.
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