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Washington, Saturday, March 25, 1950

TITLE 7- AGRICULTURE
Chapter VIII Production and Market ing Administration Sugar Branch, Department of Agriculture Subchapter D Determination of Farms
Sugar D etermination 827.2 .
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827 P uerto R ico
DEFINITION OF A FARM

Pursuant to the provisions of section 304 b of the Sugar Act of 1948, the fol lowing determination is hereby issued:
827.2 Definition o f a farm in Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico the term farm
means all land which is farmed by one or more producers as a single farming unit with cropping practices, work stock, equipment, labor, and management sub stantially separate from that of any other such unit: Provided, how ever, That such term shall include a proportional profit farm which is organized pursuant to the provisions of Title IV of the Land Law of Puerto Rico, supervised by a man ager with headquarters on the farm, and operated with work stock, light equip ment, farm buildings, and labor substan tially separate from that of any other such farm.
STATEMENT OF BASES AND CONSIDERATIONS

Section 304 b of the Sugar Act re quires that a farm be determined in ac cordance with regulations issued by the Secretary, taking inter Consideration the use of common work stock, equipment, labor, management, and other pertinent factors. The definition of a farm is im portant because proportionate shares and conditional payments, including abandohment and deficiency payments, are determined on that basis.
During the past few years, many thou sands of acres of sugarcane farm land have been acquired by the Land Author ity of Puerto Rico, a governmental agency, created by local law. This agency has responsibility for the opera tion of this land for the benefit of the agricultural workers who are employed thereon.
Under the determination of a farm issued January 1, 1944, administrative units within proportional profit farms of the Land Authority were designated as farming units for purposes of the Sugar Act. Since that determination was is sued there have been several years of experience in the actual sugarcane
operations of the Land Authority. A
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recent examination of the operations shows that each of the several projects of Agriculture Department the Land Authority is broken down into S ee Production and Marketing proportional profit farms ranging in size Administration.
from about 500 to 3700 acres and aver-
Civil Aeronautics Board aging approximately 1600 acres. These farms are operated under a formal con Notices:
tract entered into by and between the Hearings, etc.:
Land Authority and a manager. The Arrow Airways____________
manager resides on the farm and super Inter-American Airways, Inc_
vises the day-to-day operations in con Coast Guard nection with the planting, cultivating, and harvesting of the sugarcane crop.
Notices:
The Land Authority assigns to each of Approval of equipment_______
these farms the necessary work" stock, Term ination_______
light farm equipment,- fertilizer, and Rules and regulations:
other such items required to carry out Engineering equipment, specifi the farming operations. Heavy equip cations; flame arresters, presment, record keeping, supervision, and sure-vacuum relief valves, other facilities required for large scale and spill valves for tank vesand efficient operations are provided by sels________________________
the Land Authority on a unit cost basis.
Federal Power Commission Title IV of the Land Law of Puerto Notices :
Rico which provides for the establish ment of proportional profit farms also Hearings, etc.:
specifies that the net income therefrom Northern Natural Gas Co___
shall be computed by deducting from the T e x a s G a s.T ran sm issio n gross income, certain fixed charges, costs Corp_____________________
of operation, and other expenses as de Federal Security Agency termined by the Land Authority. After the managers share in the net profits . Rules and regulations :
and the reserve fund, as determined by Tort claims against Govern the Land Authority, have been deducted ment; form of claim and re the balance of such net profits is dis consideration of decisions___
tributed to the workers employed in the Interstate Commerce Commis production and harvesting of the crops.
sion In view of the actual operation of the proportional profit farm, under the Notices :
supervision of a manager, and the calcu Applications for relief :
lation and distribution of net profits de Coal from Duluth, Minn., and rived from the proceeds of the crops Menominee, Mich_,_______
marketed therefrom, it is deemed apCottonseed products from proprite to designate such proportional South to Southwest and profit farm as the farming unit for the West___ i__ __;____________
purposes of the Sugar Act.
Paper articles from Pensacola This determination supersedes, begin and Cantonment, Fla., - to ning with the 1949-50 crop, the Deter New Orleans, La___________
mination of a Farm in Puerto Rico Sulphuric acid Southwest to pursuant to the Sugar Act" of 1937, as South_________ ;_________
amended, Revision 1, 9 F. R. 51 issued Syrup, flavoring, from B alti January 1, 1944..
more, Md., to North Caro-, Sec. 403, 61 S tat. 932; 7 TJ. S. C. Sup., 1153.
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Interprets or applies sec. 304, 61 S tat. 931;
7 U. S. C. Sup., 1134

Issued this 22d day of March 1950.
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C h a r les F . B rannan ,
S ecretary o f Agriculture.
P. B . Doc. 50-2491; Filed, Mar. 24, 1950;
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Maritime Commission Notices:
Trans Pacific Freight Confer ence Hong Kong et al., member lines ; agreements filed for approval____________
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