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Excerpts: An adjustment program to increase dairy farmers' income, to hold dairy production at or near the seasonally low levels of recent months until purchasing power in cities recovers sufficiently so that consumers can buy larger quantities of milk products at better prices, and to provide benefit payments to farmers who agree to cooperate, is being submitted to the dairy industry by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Additional features of the plan supplementing its production-control provisions, include relief distribution of surplus milk to underfed children in cities, transfer of healthy cows from surplus dairy areas to needy farm families which have no cows, and provision for eradication of bovine tuberculosis and possibly also Bang's disease. The proposed program is a $165,000,000 plan, so devised that it can be extended to constitute a $300,000,000 undertaking, if Congress adopts pending legislation to aid the dairy and beef-cattle industries.