Show AAA OFFERS TREE UPKEEP PAY ON ALL APPROVED PLA iniNa farmers who planted trees originally furnished iby by a government agency or who themselves provided the trees may earn the tree maintenance payment ot of 4 an acre in the 1937 AAA program director direct W william m P peterson e in charge ot of tha AAA A p program ro gr a in a this state saya the payment f for or maintaining a planting ot of trees applies only to trees planted between january 1 1934 and january 1 1937 this does not conflict with the provision that no payments will be made tor for a practice tor for which labor seed or materials are furnished by a government go agency director peterson says as the cost for the maintenance in 1937 would have to be borne by the farmer the practice payment is thus a callable val lable to any farmer who maintains approved tree ly by proper care and by replacement of dead trees with live ones so that the total number of living trees Is at least per acre this decision has been made la in answer to questions from farmers who received the trees tree at the time ot of planting but who wish to participate in the maintenance part of 0 the 1937 program A farm population ot of i persons as of 0 january 1 1937 was f estimated today by the bureau of 0 agricultural economies economics compared with on january 1 1836 1936 the net loss of persons represents the first decrease in farm population since 1929 the bureau reported that persons left farms last year and that moved to carmi from villages towns and cities but the net migration oft off the farms was almost entirely offset by an excess ot of farm births over deaths births were estimated at deaths at |