Show range program t to 0 continue in 1939 with slight changes range conservation program under which cooperating ranchers will receive payments for carrying out practices designed to improve the grass and conserve soil of range land will be continued this year on the same general plan as in 1938 A G kilburn acting state AAA executive officer informed dave evans agricultural ri U ral extension agent forsan for san juan county A maximum range building payment will be established for each ranch participating in the pro gram ram mr Kil burns com coni munica tion mon shows and the rancher can earn up to the maximum by carrying out approved practices at a specified rate of payment for each practice deferred grazing development of watering baten ing places for livestock construction of tanks reservoirs and dams erosion and runoff run off control by contour listing furrowing and other s similar i m i I 1 a r methods are among the principal practices for which payment will be allowed one important change in connection tion with the deferred grazing practice is is that the rancher may earn 40 per cent of his range building allowance by carrying out deferred grazing practices practice and sand an additional 20 per cent by carrying out additional requirements in connection with this practice which county agricultural conservation committee members will prescribe to comply with the deferred grazing requirements the rancher must withhold 25 per cent of the range land on his ranch from grazing for the normal period from the start of forage growth to seed maturity before the practice of deferred grazing is started the area to be deferred must be designated in writing by the ranch operator and approved by the county committee payment rates for various practices follow artificial re seeding of range land with adapted varieties 20 cents per pound of teed seed artificial sa 3 per acre contour ridging 10 cents per linear feet spreader dams 15 acts per cubic yard of material moved spreader terraces 50 cents per linear feet earthen tanks or reservoirs ervo irs 15 cents per cubic yard of material moved in excess of yards concrete or rubble masonry dams 6 per yard excavation ca for developing springs or seeps 30 cents per cubic foot if soil and 50 cents if rock fire guards not less than 10 feet wide 5 cents per linear feet |