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 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html