| Show wian a manager M ager lists uses for retired lands farmers who sign the adjustment contracts with the government have seven different methods i of handlir handling 9 the acres taken butof out of wheat wada production under the terms of the contract according to director william peterson manager of the agricultural adjustment 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 pro he can practice summer fallowing following fal lowing to enrich his soil experiments 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 a nurse crop and plow it under to build up the fertility of the soil or he may plant to 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 cropis crop is harvested other acres must then be substituted and used to conform with the wheat contract or he may plant to crops for or feeding dairy cows and hens whose products are to be used for home consumption sum eption to crops for feeding poultry beef animals arid hogs which are to be slaughtered for home consumption and for horses used in operating the farm director peterson said planting such crops on contracted acres must no not be permitted to fco 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 peterson pointed out if the land is high enough in quality to produce 50 bushels of wheat per acre the allotment provision would be 64 54 per cent of 50 bushels which would allow 27 bushels on which the allotment is made for each of the 27 bushels 28 cents will be paid which would amount to a payment of for 15 IB per cent of one acre put out of production fifteen per cent is ap proximately one seventh or the farmer Is paid per acre per minum annum for the land taken out of wheat production the arrangement is really better if the same rate is continued for th the next two years which will be the case unless parity is reached the farmer i Is also paid for his 1933 allotment therefore three times 52 92 amounts to by 61 dividing viding this amount by two for the two years for which them the acreage has been reduced the amount is per acre per annum for the two years the land has been taken out of production j lower producing acres will bring corresponding lower allotments but in each case the amount Is compensatory compensator to the land values |
