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Title
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United States Department of Agriculture Extension Service Division of Cooperative Extension Envelope, Letter, and Contact, Washington, D.C., 1935
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Accession Number
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2024.16.2.208.1
2024.16.2.208.2
2024.16.2.208.3
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Accession Date
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11 November 2025
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Accession Creator
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Meadow Knapp
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Description
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208.1: Envelope from the United States Department of Agriculture Extension Service Division of Cooperative Extension, Washington, D.C., to Mr. W.Z.M. Wilson
208.2: Letter about checks from Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics, State of South Carolina, to Mr. W.Z.M. Wilson
208.3: Distribution of 1935 Parity Payment Under 1934 and 1935 Cotton Acreage Reduction Contract
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Creator
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208.3: U.S. Government Printing Office
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Contributor
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208.1: United States Department of Agriculture Extension Service Division of Cooperative Extension
208.2: W. H. Stallworth, County Agent
208.3: W.Z.M. Wilson
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Date
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208.1: December 26, 1935
208.2: December 30, 1935
208.3: December 27, 1935
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Storage Location
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Box 28, Folder #6
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Text
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208.1:
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EXTENSION SERVICE DIVISION OF COOPERATIVE EXTENSION WASHINGTON, D. C.
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Mr. W. Z. M. Wilson
Rt. 1, Greer, S. C.
U. S. Govt. checks
208.2:
COOPERATIVE EXTENSION WORK IN AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE COOPERATING
EXTENSION SERVICE
Spartanburg, S. C.
Dec. 30, 1935
Mr. W. Z. M. Wilson
Rt. 1, Greer, S. C.
Dear Sir:
Find enclosed Treas. of U. S. check
N umber 20950546 / 20967970 for $ 41.54 / 12.24 made payable to _________. This check represents parity payment on 1935 cotton acreage reduction contract # 3623-2729.
Very truly yours,
W.H. Stallworth
W. H. Stallworth
County Agent
P. S. You returned all four copies of form 135, therefore we are returning three of them so that you you may complete them. Upon receipt of your check, please have your tenants sign opposite their names on page 3 after they have received the designed amount. You will then sign on lines designated for producer at bottom of page before witness and return two copies to this office.
208.3: Front:
Form No. Cotton 135
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ADMINISTRATION
Division of Cotton
Form approved by Comptroller General, U.S.
October 23, 1935
56-042.
S.C......Spartanburg 3623 (Stamp State and county code and enter contract serial numbers above)
DISTRBUTION OF 1935 PARITY PAYMENT UNDER 1934 AND 1935 COTTON ACREAGE REDUCTION CONTRACT
NOTICE
This form, containing the rule for distribution under the contract of the parity payment, the instructions for applying that rule, and report of the distribution made, is hereby approved this 19th day of September 1935, and strict compliance with said rule and instructions is required.
All concerned are advised that it is the primary purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Act and of the Cotton Acreage Adjustment Program to place increased purchasing power in the hands of cotton producers in the form of improved prices and direct cash payments. Under the terms of the cotton contract, parity payments could not be assignment or pledged. The portion of the parity payment which is due to a share tenant or share cropper should not be credited on any old account and should be credited on the current crop account only with the full knowledge and consent of the tenant or cropper.
Henry A Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture.
INSTRUCTIONS.- This Form No. Cotton 135 is a combination with certain revisions of Forms Nos. Cotton 34 and 35, which were used in 1934, and should be executed on a typewriter or in ink or indelible pencil. Every signature is required to be in ink or indelible pencil.
Where division with one or more share tenants or share croppers is required.- If one or more share tenants or share croppers engaged in producing cotton in 1935 on the farm, the producer is obligated under the contract to divide the parity payment with him or them, and section I is to be used to procure the producer's receipt for the parity payment check and also his declaration of trust to distribute the proceeds of such check in accordance with the provisions of the contract and the instruc-tions set forth in section II hereof for distribution of parity payments among producers, share tenants, and share croppers. Section I is to be executed in quadruplicate; the original is to be retained by the county agent in his office files (subject to being forwarded to Washington on instructions) and the three executed carbon copies delivered to the producer, together with the parity payment check. When section III has been properly executed by the producer in triplicate and filed with the county agent and has been examined by him and found by him to be correct, the copy of this form which contains the duplicate of section I and original of section III shall be forwarded to Washington by the county agent through the State Board of review, the duplicate retained by the county agent in his office files, and the triplicate delivered to the producer.
Where there is no division.- In case a separate check is issued to the landlord of a managing-share tenant for his share alone, or in case the producer in 1935 has had no share tenant or share cropper on the farm, this form is not to be used but the receipt for the parity payment check will be taken on Form No.12, Disbursing Unit, Receipt for Checks Delivered.
(1) 8-9331
208.3:Back:
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I. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT OF 1935 PARITY PAYMENT CHECK
1. I hereby acknowledge the receipt from the Secretary of Agriculture of check no. 20950546 for $41.54 constituting the 1935 parity payment made to the undersigned under the 1934 and 1935 Cotton Acreage Reduction Contract, the serial number of which is shown above.
2. I hereby accept said parity payment in trust (a) to pay to each share tenant and/or share cropper who planted cotton (or was prevented from planting or harvesting cotton as set forth in section II hereof) on the farm covered by said contract in 1935 (except such share tenants and/or share croppers as have abandoned said farm prior to this date and cannot be found by me after diligent search) the amount of the parity payment to which he is entitled under the terms of said contract and the instructions and rule of distribution of parity payment which each share tenant and/or share cropper who has aban-doned said farm and cannot after diligent effort be found by me would have received in cash at the time of distribution except for such abandonment.
3. I hereby agree to complete the execution of and file with the county agent this Form No. Cotton 135 in triplicate within 30 days after this date and to secure thereon in section III the signature of each share tenant and/or share cropper who has received in cash and/or advances or furnishings his part of the 1935 parity payment, evidencing such receipt.
4. The specific undertakings contained herein shall not be construed to relieve the undersigned of any obligations assumed under the terms of said contract.
Dated [Check Mark] Dec 27, 1935 [Check Mark] WZM Wilson (Signature of payee named in check- same as in check)
Witness: [Check Mark] JO Hendrix Duncan/#1 SC (Signature and address)
II. INSTRUCTIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF 1935 PARITY PAYMENTS AMONG PRODUCERS, SHARE TENANTS, AND SHARE CROPPERS
Rule of Distribution
Application of Rule
Failure to Produce Crop on Account of Uncontrollable Natural Causes
208.3: Inside:
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III. DISTRUBTION OF PARITY PAYMENT
Column 1 to 5, inclusive, shall be executed for every tenant or cropper who is or was on the farm in 1935 even if he has abandoned the farm.
Total Parity Payment to Farm $ 41.51
Each tenant or cropper on farm in 1935|Land in cotton in 1935| Amount distributed (Dollars)| I hereby acknowledge receipt 1 of each amount set opposite my name (a) in cash handed me at the time I sign this receipt or (b) its equiv-alent value in cash or supplies or other bene-fits advanced to me for 1935 2
Name (1)
W.A. Hendrix
Cliff Hendrix
Acres oper-ated by ten-ant or cropper (2)
15
2
Share of crop to tenant or cropper (3)
1/2
1/2
Credited for supplies (4)|Paid in cash (5)|
17.33
2.31
Signature 3 (6)
Keys
TOTAL|17|XXX|_ _ _|19.64|XXXXXX
Producer 4 W.Z.M. Wilson|1|XXX|_ _ _|21.90|XXXXXX
TOTALS FOR FARM|18|XXX|_ _ _|41.54|XXXXXX
1 Where receipt is by nearest of kin of a tenant or cropper who has died, the signature is followed by word "Kin."
2 Deductions are only for actual cash advanced toward making of 1935 crop or for actual cash value of supplies or other benefits advanced for 1935 for same pur-pose and do not include excessive interest charges or excessive profits on furnishings. The amount of cash in column (5) is the amount of cash actually in hand paid to the tenant or cropper at the time of distribution of the parity payment and does not include any cash advanced previously for the 1935 season, such cash being in-cluded under "Credited for supplies" in column (4). If no cash or supplies or other benefit was advanced for 1935 a line is drawn through the part of column (4) relat-ing to the tenant or cropper referred to. Likewise, if no cash is actually paid in distributing the parity payment to a tenant or cropper a line is drawn through the part of column (5) relating to him.
3 Each signature to be in ink or indelible pencil. Where tenant or cropper signs by mark, 2 witnesses are required; they may be other tenants or croppers able to write or an persons not parties o this contract. His signature by mark and witnesses' signatures should be arranged as in this example:
William Smith
John his X mark Doe
John Brown
CERTIFICATE OF PRODUCER
Date: 1/4, 1936 W.Z.M. Wilson (Signature of producer-same as in contract)
Witness: (Signature and address)
Correct to the best of my knowledge and belief:
Date: ,193 (Signature of County Agent)
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 8-9331
