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Show Soil-Building' Allowance Is "Expense Fund" " . s Every farmer who participates in tlie 1937 agricultural conservation program wul have for Iris farm a I oil-building allowance which may be consid.red as a sort of expense Hind, according to George E. Far-rell, Far-rell, director oi the AAA for the we.tern region. The sU-buildini$ S allowance limits th? amount of money which a farmer may earn by unplc. ing approved soil-building j practices. "This i because every farmer will know b:fore he begins his farming operations this year approximately ic.v big the fund, or soil-building allowance, will be for his farm," Mr. Fa.rell says. He will know that he can not earn or draw upon this account unle s he actually performs certain soil-building practices. "The amount of the soil-building allowance depends upon the size and type cf the individual farm. The allowance will be set up for each farm out of the funds available avail-able for the national program," Mr. Farrell says. "Practice payments may b3 earned earn-ed from the : oil-building allowance by planting soil-conserving crops, such as crested wheatgnass and alfalfa, alf-alfa, or by any cf a number cf such practices a-' strip cropping, te-racing and contour listing. They are in addition, to the diversion payments, which will average $6 an acre for the country as a whole. "Soil-building allowances this year will be larger than last year i'or most farm.". "The s-il-buiiding allowance for diversion farms (all farms except small farms with les than 20 acres in the roil-depleting base or which ars classed as non-diversion farms tor other reasons) will be figured by adding up as many of the following fol-lowing items as apply to the farm: "$1 an acre for each acre in roil-conserving roil-conserving crps on the farmi this y.ar, up to the total acres in the scil-coneerving base. (This base is the total number of acre? in cropland, crop-land, less the soil-depleting base any orchard and vinyard acreage. $4 an acre, adjusted to the productivity pro-ductivity of the land, for acreage diverted for payment. "Orchard allowance of 80 cents an acre, adjusted to productivity, for the acreage in ni'cnaras, vinyard;, vin-yard;, nut trees, and bu'h trees. "Flat orchard allowance of $1 an acre for land in orchards, vinyards, nut trees and bush fruits, and $1 an acre for land in commercial vege-i vege-i tables if single-cropped in. 1936 and S2 an acre if double-cropped in 1930. "Pasture allowance cf 50 cents io each animal unit (over 5) which ti.e non-oiop pasture land on the farm will carry during the normal pa.ture season. "On the smaller, non-diversion farms, . the soil-building allowance will be rigured by adding up as many of the fallowing1 items as appiy : "80 cents an acre, adjusted to pi ductrity, for the total acreage in cropland. "A flat oichard rate of $1 an acre 'or land in orchards, vinyards, nut trees, bush fruits, and $1 an acre for land in commercial vegetables; $2 an acre for land in commercial vegetables if double-cropped in 1936. "Pasture allowance cf 50 cento-for cento-for each animal unit (over 5) which the non-crop pasture land cn the farm will carry during the normal pasture season." |