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Show A. A. A. Range Program To Continue In 1939 With Slight Changes Utah's range conservation program, pro-gram, under iwihich cooperating ranchers will receive payments for carrying out practices designed to improve t'he grass and conserve soil cf range land, will be continued this year on the sai.me general plan as in 1938, A. G. Kilburn, acting state AAA executive officer, informed in-formed Elmer H. Gibson, agricultural agricul-tural extension agent for Sanpete county. A maximum, range-building payment pay-ment will be established for each ranch participating in the program Mr. Kilburn's communication shews, and the rancher can earn up to the .maximum by carrying out approved practices at a speci-iled speci-iled rate of payment for each practice. prac-tice. Deferred grazing; development develop-ment of watering places for livestock, live-stock, construction of tanks, reservoirs, reser-voirs, and daims; erosion and runoff run-off control by contour listing, furrowing, fur-rowing, and. other similar methods, are among the principal practices for which payment will be aliased. One important change in connection connec-tion with, the deferred grazing practice Is that the rancher may earn 40. per cent of his range-building range-building allowance by carrying out deferred grazing practices and an additional 20 per cent by carrying out additional requirements in connection con-nection with tlias practice (which county agricultural conservation committee members will prescribe. To comply with, the deferred grazing graz-ing requirement, the rancher .must wittr.iold 25 per cent of the range and on his ranch from. gra2ing for e normal period from the start of fcrrge gr.wth to seed ..maturity. 3L-'ore the practice . of deferred . r nrng is started, the area to be deferred rr.ust to designated rn writing by the ranch operator and ,-v-ovcd by t .e county committee. Pny. rent rates for various practices prac-tices fcllrw: artificial rcseedins of n&e land with adapted varieties, :0 cents per i ound of seed; artifi-soddiuij', artifi-soddiuij', $3 per acre; contour ic'-irg, 10 cents per 100 linear feet; spreader dams, 15 cents per .ubic yard of material moved; spreader terraces, 50"cents per 100 inear feet; earthen tanks or reservoirs, reser-voirs, 15 cents per cubic yard material ma-terial moved in excess of 5000 y.rds; concrete or rubble masonry iaxs. $6 per yard; excavation for Jevelc ing springs or seeps, 30 feet -vide, 5 cents per 100 linear feet. |