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Tuesday , February 1, 1949
Texas & New Orleans Railroad Co.
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis.
Texas & Pacific Railway Co.
Union Pacific Railroad Co. South-Central District Wabash Railroad Co.
Western Pacific Railroad Co.
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Co.

FEDERAL REGISTER

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SOUTHEASTERN REGION

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.
Norfolk Southern Railway Co.
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Rail road Co.
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co.

Atlanta & West Point Railroad Co.
Western Railway of Alabama Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.
Central of Georgia Railway Co.
Florida East Coast Railway Co.
Georgia Railroad Co.
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co.

F. R. Doc. 49-788; Filed, Jan. 28, 1949;
6:14 p. m.

RULES AND REGULATIONS
TITLE 6 AGRICULTURAL
CREDIT
Chapter IV Production and Market ing Administration and Commodity Credit Corporation, Department of Agriculture Subchapter C Loans, Purchases, and Other Operations
P art 648 P otatoes, I rish SUBPART 1 9 4 9 POTATO ACREAGE GOALS

GENERAL

See 648/71 Applicability of 648.71 to 648.85.
648.72, Definitions.
648.73 Extent of calculations and rule of fractions.
648.74 Instructions -and forms.
NATIONAL AND STATE ACREAGE GOALS AND
COUNTY LIMITS

648.75 Establishment of the national acre age goal and apportionment among the States.
648.76 Apportionment of the State commer cial goal among the counties as county limits.
ACREAGE GOALS FOR COMMERCIAL FARMS

648.77 Determination of preliminary acre age goals of three or more acres for old farms.
648.78 Final acreage goals for old commer cial farms.
648.79 Determination of acreage goals of . three acres or more for new farms.
ACREAGE GOALS FOR NON-COMMERCIAL FARMS

648.80 . Goal for non-commercial farm.

APPROVAL AND CORRECTION OP GOALS

648.81 Approval.
648.82 Correction.
NOTICE AND APPEALS

648.83 Notice.
648.84 Appeals.
648.85 Request for consideration.
A u t h o r it y : 648.71 to 648.85 issued un der Pub. Law 897, 80th Cong.
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GENERAL

Applicability of 648.71 to 648.85. Sections 648.71 to 648.85 shall govern the establishment of farm acre age goals for Irish potatoes for use in connection with United States Depart ment of Agriculture price support opera tions relating to the 1949 crop of such potatoes. The planting of potatoes in ex cess of the 1949 goal established for any farm, or, where separate goals are estab lished for early and late potatoes, the planting or potatoes in excess of either of such goals, shall, subsequent to the date of such excess planting, render any person having an interest in such farm 648.71

as operator, owner, landlord, tenant or partner ineligible to participate in 1949
potato price support operations. Such ineligibility shall extend also to any cor poration or corporate stockholder whose operations are subject to substantially the same management, ownership, or control as those of a corporation or cor porate stockholder planting potatoes in excess of an acreage goal. Potatoes which are produced on a farm owned or operated by a partnership shall be in eligible in case any partner plants pota toes on any other farm in excess of the acreage goal for such farm. The entire interest in potatoes planted within a non-commercial farm goal must be in the owner, or in the owner and the operator, of such entire farm. Any person having an interest, other than as owner or opera tor of the entire farm, in potato produc tion from one or more non-commercial farms, shall be ineligible to participate in 1949 potato price support operations.
Publicly owned experiment stations planting potatoes for experimental pur poses only do not come within the scope of this program; no goal shall be estab lished for such experimental plantings nor shall the potatoes produced thereon be eligible for acquisition under price support operations.
648.72 Definitions. As used in 648.71 to 648.85 and in all instructions, forms, and documents in connection therewith, the words and phrases defined in this section shall have the meanings herein assigned to them unless the con text or subject m atter requires otherwise.
a Committees: 1 County com mittee means the group of persons elected within a county to assist in the administration of the Agricultural Con servation Program in such county.
2 State committee means the group of persons designated as the State committee of the Production and Market ing Administration charged with the re sponsibility of administering Production and Marketing Administration programs within the State.
b Farm means ah adjacent or nearby farm land under the same owner ship which is operated by one person, including also: 1 Any other adjacent or nearby farm land which the county committee, in accordance with instruc tions issued by the Production and Mar keting Administration, determines is op erated by the same persons as part of the same unit with respect to rotation of crops and with workstock, farm machin ery and labor substantially separate from that for any other lands; and 2 any field-rented tract whether operated by
the same or another person which, to gether with any other land included in the farm, constitutes a unit with respect to the rotation of crops. A farm shall be regarded as located in the county in which the principal dwelling is situated, or if there is no dwelling thereon it shall be regarded as located in the county in which the major portion of the farm is located.
c New farm means a farm on which potatoes have not been planted since 1945 and on which the 1949 farm operators personal history of potato pro duction since 1945 is not used in deter mining the farm goal.
d Old farm means a farm on which potatoes have been planted in one or more years since 1945 or on which the 1949 farm operators personal history of potato production since 1945 is used in determining the farm goal.
e Commercial farm means a farm for which a preliminary 1949 goal of three or more acres is established.
f Non-commercial farm mems a farm on which potatoes are planted in 1949 and for which a preliminary 1949
potato acreage goal of three or more acres is not established.
g National goal means the total number of acres of Irish potatoes estab lished by the United States Department of Agriculture as necessary to produce a 1949 crop sufficient for all domestic and export requirements without unduly cur tailing production in any area.
h State goal means the number of acres out of the National goal allocated by the Production and Marketing Ad ministration to be planted within a par ticular State.
i Commercial goal means th at part of the total goal which is made available for apportioning to commercial farms.
j Non-commercial goal means that part of the total goal which is attributed to non-commercial farms. No direct ap portionment of the non-commercial goal to any farm is provided.
k Preliminary goal is the acreage which the county committee preliminar ily determines to be the proper goal for a farm, in view of the county limit as here inafter defined, past goals on the farm, topography, crop rotation practice, and land, labor, and equipment available for the production, handling, and market ing of potatoes grown on the farm.
l Final goal for a farm Is its pre liminary goal after such goal has been adjusted by the county committee so th at the total of all final goals in the county shall not exceed the county limit, pur suant to the procedure specified in 648.73 and 648.78.