Chapter 149. Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to issue semimonthly cotton crop reports and providing for their publication simultaneously with the ginning reports of the Department of Commerce
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CHAP. 149.— An Act Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to issue semimonthly cotton crop reports and providing for their publication simultaneously with the ginning reports of the Department of Commerce. May 3, 1924.[[S. 2112](/us/bill/68/s/2112).][[Public, No. 114](/us/pl/68/114).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Con press assembled, * Cotton statistics.Farmers’ acreage re-ports discontinued.Semimonthly reports of condition, progress, and probable production to be issued.Subject to approval of designated board.
That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture shall discontinue acreage reports based upon farmers’ intention to plant cotton and shall cause to be issued between July 1 and December 1 semimonthly reports as to the condition, progress, and probable production of cotton. No such report shall be approved and released by the Secretary of Agriculture until it shall have been passed upon by a cotton crop reporting committee or board consisting of five members or more to be designated by him, not less than three of which shall be supervisory field statisticians of the Department of Agriculture located in different sections of the cotton-growing States, experienced in estimating cotton production and who have first-hand Knowledge of the condition of the cotton crop based on recent field observations, and a majority of which committee or board shall be familiar with the methods and practices of *Proviso*.Dates of simultaneous issue with Census ginning reports.producing cotton: *Provided*, That the foregoing reports as of the following dates, August 1, August 16, September 1, September 16,116 October 1, October 18, November 1, November 14, and December 1, shall be released simultaneously with the cotton-ginning reports of the Bureau of the Census relating to the same dates, the two reports to be issued from the same place at eleven o’clock antemeridian of the eighth day following that to which the respective reports relate.
When such date of release falls on Sunday or a legal holiday, the report shall be issued at eleven o’clock antemeridian of the next succeeding workday. Sec. 2. Inconsistent laws repealed. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency. Approved, May 3, 1924.