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Show Soil Conserving Rate Fixed For County The county soil-conserving' (Class 1) payment rate for Utah county in the 1936 Agricultural Conservation Program will average $16.30 an acre, Director William Peterson, in charge of the program in Utah announced this week. County Agent S. R. Boswell says that the rate for individual farms may vary considerably from the average rate for the county, for the reason that the rate per acre for individual farms will depend upon the productivity of the farm as compared with the average productivity produc-tivity of all farms in the county. This rate for the county is an average rate. It has been determined deter-mined on the assumption that no summer fallow will be included in the total of the soil-depleting" base acreages for the county. The inclusion in-clusion of summer fallow will result re-sult in a lower rate, depending upon up-on the proportion which summer fallow is of the total of the soil depleting bases. For instance, if 25 percent of the total soU depleting deplet-ing base acreages is made up of summer fallow, then the actual county rate will be 25 percent less than the rate indicated above. This rate should not be confused with the rates for soil-building (Class 11) payments, previously announced. an-nounced. Neither should it be confused con-fused with soil-conserving payments pay-ments to be made with respect to sugar beets. The county rates were worked out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration Ad-ministration on the basis of the yields of the principal soil-depleting crops raised in the county in the 10-year period 1923 to 1932 incul-. sive. r |