Mulford v. Smith

The appellants, producers of flue-cured tobacco, assert that the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938,1 is unconstitutional as it affects their 1938 crop.

The portions of the statute involved are those included in Title III, providing marketing quotas for flue-cured tobacco.2 The Act directs that when the supply is found to exceed the.level defined1 in the Act as the “reserve supply level” a national marketing quota shall become effec-. tive which will permit enough flue-cured tobacco to be marketed during the ensuing marketing year to maintain the supply at the reserve supply level. The. quota…