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Show Manager Lists Uses For Retired Lands Farmers who sign the adjustment contracts with the government have seven different methods of handling the acres taken out of wheat produc- tion under the terms of the contract, ' according to Director William Peterson, Peter-son, manager of the agricultural adjustment ad-justment administration for Utah. ' Under the approved practices, a farmer may permit his retired acres (to lie unplanted, which gives him an opportunity to control noxious weeds, level the ground, or give other improvement. im-provement. He can practice summer fallowing to enrich his soil. Experiments Experi-ments have proved that by keeping the land in fallow for two successive years, the production, when the land is again cropped, is increased from four to six bushels per acre. The farmer may plant a nurse crop and plow it under to build up the fertility fer-tility of the soil or he may plant to I permanent pasture, with the provision that the land so planted is not eligible to be counted as contracted acreage during the second season when used for pasture or a hay crop is harvested. Other acres must then be substituted and used to conform with the wheat contract. Or he may plant to crops for feeding dairy cows and hens whose products are to be used for home consumption; con-sumption; to crops for feeding poultry, poul-try, beef animals and hogs which are to be slaughtered for home consumption consump-tion and for horses used in operating the farm, Director Peterson said. Planting such crops on contracted acres must not be permitted to release other lands on the farm where garden and feed crops would normally be raised. The acres may be planted to forest trees for windbreak or farm use, and comply with the terms of the contract. If a farmer lets his land lie idle, the allotment received is fully enough to compensate him for doing so, Director Di-rector Peterson pointed out. If the land is high enough in quality to pro-I pro-I duce 50 bushels of wheat per acre, the allotment provision would be 54 per cent of 50 bushels, which would allow 27 bushels on which the allotment allot-ment is made. For each of the 27 bushels, 28 cents will be paid which would amount to a payment of $7.56 for 15 per cent of one acre put out of production. Fifteen per cent is approximately ap-proximately one-seventh, or the farm-j er is paid $52.92 per acre per annum for the land taken out of wheat production. pro-duction. I The arrangement is really better if the same rate is continued for the next two years, which will be the case unless parity is reached. The farmer is also paid for his 1933 allotment; therefore, three times $52.92 amounts to $158.76. By dividing this amount by two, for the two years for which the acreage has been reduced, the amount is $79.38 per acre per annum for the two years the land has been taken out of production. Lower producing acres will bring corresponding lower allotments but in each case the amount is compensatory to the land values. |