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75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 107-APR . 7, 1938 SEC. 7. Section 334 (b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 is amended by striking out the word "net". SEC. 8. Section 343 (c) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 is amended by striking out "for 1938 and for 1939" and inserting in lieu thereof "for any year". SEc. 9 . (a) The second sentence of section 344 (b) of the Agricul- tural Adjustment Act of 1938 is amended to read as follows: "Such number of acres plus the number of acres allotted to the State pur- suant to subsection (e) (2) is referred to as the 'State acreage allotment'.". (b) Section 344 (d) (3) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 is amended by inserting after "excluding from such acreage the acres devoted to the production of" the following: "sugarcane for sugar,"; and by inserting after "rice for market or' the following: "wheat or rice". (c) Section 344 (e) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 is amended by inserting after "(e)" at the beginning of such sub- section "(1)" and by adding at the end thereof the following: "(2) The Secretary shall allot to each State to which an allotment is made under subsection (b), and in which at least three thousand five hundred bales were produced in any of the five years immediately preceding the year for which the allotment is made, a number of acres sufficient to provide a total State acreage allotment for such State of not less than five thousand acres." (d) Section 344 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: "(g) For each of the years 1938 and 1939 an acreage equal to 4 per centum of the State acreage allotment shall be apportioned by the Secretary, to counties and farms in the State receiving allot- ments under this Part, in the following manner: "(1) An amount of the additional allotment provided for in this subsection sufficient to allot to each farm the acreage allot- ments provided for in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) of subsection (d) of this section shall be used for making such acreage allotments as therein provided. "(2) In counties in which the allotment is not sufficient to pro- vide adequate and representative allotments to other farms in the county as a result of the allotments required, by section 344 (d) (1) (A) arnd (B), an additional acreage shall be allotted to such farms to make the allotment to each of such farms as nearly equal to the allotment which would have been made to such farms in the absence of the provisions of (A) and (B) of subsection 344 (d) (1) as the remainder of the 4 per centum will permit. "(3) After making the allotments provided for in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection the remainder of the 4 per centum may be apportioned in amounts determined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable to farms or counties receiving allotments which the Secretary determines are inadequate and not repre- sentative in view of past production of cotton on the farm or in the county. "(h) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, the cot- ton acreage allotment for any farm for each of the years 1938 and 1939, after making the allotments provided in subsection (g), shall be increased by such amount as may be necessary to provide an allot- ment of not less than 50 per centum of the sum of the acreage planted in cotton in 1937 and the acreage diverted from cotton production in 1937 under the agricultural conservation program, as determined for State acreage allot- ment, wheat. Ante, p. 64. Amount of national allotments, cotton. Ante, p. 57. "State acreage allot- ment", cotton. Ante, p. 57. Lands excluded from tilled acreage, com- modities added. Ante, p. 58. Ante, p. 58. Cotton; State allot- ments. Ante, p. 58. County and farm acreage allotment. Basis. Increased allotment for 1938 and 1939. Post, p. 5886. 203 52 STAT.]