orn*to Grass 



No payments will be made on any 

 farm unless minimum requirements for 

 1936 plantings of soil-conserving crops 

 are made. The minimum requirement 

 is that the total acreage of soil-conserv- 

 ing and soil-building crops shall at 

 least equal either: (a) 20 per cent of 

 the farm's soil -depleting base or (b) 

 the percentage on which a soil-conserv- 

 ing payment can be made. 



The rates of soil-conserving pay- 

 ments for soil-depleting crops such as 

 corn, small grains, soybeans, potatoes 

 and others common to Illinois are an 

 average of $10 per acre. This varies 

 among states, counties and individual 

 farms according to productivity. The 

 average in Illinois may be higher than 

 $10. The maximum acreage with re- 

 spect to which payment will be made is 

 15 per cent of the base acreage for the 

 farm, of soil -depleting crops. In the 

 case of cotton, tobacco etc. which are 

 not grown to any extent in Illinois, 

 the rates of payment are different. 

 Soil-depleting Crops 

 Among the common soil-depleting 

 crops grown in Illinois are corn (field, 

 sweet, broom and popcorn), potatoes, 

 commercial truck and canning crops, 

 melons and strawberries, small grains 

 harvested for grain or when seeded 

 alone and harvested for hay (wheat, 

 oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, flax, etc.). 

 Soil-conserving crops include (1) an- 

 nual legumes, including: vetch; bien- 

 nial legumes, including sweet, red, al- 

 sike and Mammoth clovers; perennial 

 legumes, including alfalfa and white 

 clover; and annual Icspedeza. 



2. Perennial grasses, including blue- 

 grass, Dallis, timothy, redtop, or- 

 chard, Bermuda, carpet, brome, 

 crested and slender wheat grass, 

 or grass mixtures, when on plow- 

 able crop land and not classified 

 as permanent pasture. 



3. Snudl grains, including wheat, 

 oats, rye, barley, or small grain 

 mixtures, when seeded as a nurse 

 crop, pastured or not, and chpped 

 green; or when grown alone, pas- 

 tured or not. and turned under in 

 1936 as a green manure crop. 



Soil -Building Crops include: 



1. Annual legumes, including vetch, 

 winter peas, bur and crimson 

 clover, when turned under in 1936 

 as a green manure crop. Acreage 

 seeded to these crops in the fall of 

 1935 and turned under in 1936 will 

 qualify. 



2. Biennial Legumes, including sweet, 

 red, alsike, and Mammoth clovers; 



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, perennial legumes, including al- 

 falfa, kudzu, sericea, and white 

 clover; and annual varieties of 

 Lespedeza, when seeded in 1936. 



3. Summer legumes, including soy- 

 beans, velvet beans, field beans, 

 crotalaria, field peas, and cowpeas, 

 when turned under in 1936 as a 

 green manure crop. 



4. Perennial grasses, including blue- 

 grass. DaUis, timothy, redtop, or- 

 chard. Bermuda, carpet, brome, 

 crested and slender wheat grass, or 

 grass mixtures, when seeded in 

 1936. with or immediately follow- 

 ing a harvested crop. 



5. Small grains, including wheat, 

 oats, barley, rye, or small grain 

 mixtures, when grown as a win- 

 ter cover crop, turned under as 

 green manure in 1936 and fol- 

 lowed in the summer of 1936 by 

 an approved soil-conserving crop. 

 Small grain acreage seeded in 

 1935. turned under in 1936 and fol- 

 lowed in the summer of 1936 by 

 a soil-conserving crop will qualify. 



6. Forest trees planted on crop land 

 in 1936. 



The payments will be divided be- 

 tween landlord and share tenant in the 

 same proportion tHat they share in the 

 principal soil-depleting crop under 

 their lease or operating agreement. The 

 principal soil-depleting crop has been 

 defined as the one \vith the greatest 

 acreage in the farming unit. 



Administration of the soil-conserva- 

 tion program in the states and coun- 

 ties will be through state committees, 

 county associations, county and com- 

 munity committees, and the Extension 

 Service of the Land Grant Colleges. 



These committees will be largely 

 made up of farmers representing the 

 major types of farming of the state. 



The state committee will be made up 

 of from three to five members with a 



President Eerl Smith, left, end Gerald B. Thorne, 

 director north central division for administra- 

 tion of Soil Coniervation Act. 



majority of the members practical 

 farmers. Every farm owner and opera- 

 tor in the county will be eligible to 

 membership in the county association. 

 Community committees will aid the 

 county committees in establishing di- 

 rect contact with individual farmers. 



In addition to funds available for 

 payments under the soil conservation 

 program. Congress has made available, 

 under various provisions of the Agri- 

 cultural Adjustment Act and related 

 legislation, funds for the removal of 

 surplus dairy products, for diversion 

 of products from the normal channels 

 of trade, expansion of domestic and ex- 

 port markets, and for payments in con- 

 nection with that portion of commod- 

 ities used for domestic consumption. 



As we go to press state-wide meet- 

 ings are being called for county leaders 

 where the program for Illinois will be 

 explained. Community and township 

 meetings will be held the first week 

 in April and thereafter. 



Pigs in 

 Rye Pasture 



_A Soil- 

 Building or 



Soil- 

 Conserving 



Crop De- 

 pending on 



How It Is 



Handled. 



