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Show SOIL-CONSERVING RATE FOR COUNTY AVERAGE IS GIVEN The soil-conserving (Class 1) payment rate for Washington county in the 19 3 6 Agricultural Conservation program will average aver-age $15.40 an acre, Director William Peterson, in charge of the program in Utah announced this week. County Agent Anson B. Call, Jr. says that the rate for individual indi-vidual farms may vary considerably consider-ably from the average rate for the county, ,for the reason that the rate per acre for individual farms will depend upon the productivity prod-uctivity of the farm as compared with the average productivity of all farms in the county. This rate for the county is an average rate. It ' has been determined de-termined on the assumption that no summer fallow will be included; in the total of ttie Soil-depleting base acreage for the county. The inclusion of summer fallow will result in lower rate, depending upon the proportion which summer sum-mer fallow is of the total of the soil-depleting bases. For instance, if 25 percent of the total soil-depleting base acreages is made up of summer fallow, then the actual ac-tual county rate will be 25 percent per-cent less than the rate indicated above. This rate should not be confused con-fused with the rates for soil-building soil-building (Class 11) payents, previously prev-iously announced. Neither should it be confused with soil-conserving payments to be made with raspect to sugar beets. The county rates were worked out by the Agricultural Adjusts ment Administration on the basis of the yields of the principal soil-depleting crops raised in the county in the 10-year period, 1923 to 1932 inclusive. The average $15.40 per acre rate for this county compares with the average rates for the adjoining counties, as follows: Beaver, $12.80; Iron, $13.40; Kane, $12.20; Sevier, $17.10; and Washington, $15. 4a. |