Your Gmaw was not a crook.......  :-)   Her conduct was permissable and remains so.  As Lee will tell you, a tobacco quota is assigned to an individual, not to any particular tract of land.  Thus, if you have a 2000 lb. quota, that is all you are allowed to sell, and therein lies the control factor.  Are there cheats?  Of course.  Right, Lee?      
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bettye Davis 
  Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 11:57 PM
  Subject: Fw: Another Question for Paul Drake


  Paul, thought you might be interested in this:  my Mother had a tobacco
  allotment for her farm.  The government paid her NOT to plant tobacco....yet
  she rented the land to her neighbor who planted tobacco on the land.  I
  suppose you could call it the government's right hand not knowing what it's
  left hand was doing or perhaps the opposite.  I surely hope it was all
  legal!

  Bettye



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