It's A "Figgerin" Job 



(Continued from page 6) 



.. attached against payments when the 



• ■ total of soil-conserving and soil- 

 . building crop acres is less than 15 per 



■'•■ cent of the 1935 soil-depleting crop 



'^ base. 

 *. " 

 ' Low Acreage in Soil -Conserving and 



Soil-Building Crops (C) 



1935 Crops 



Com 40 acres) Soil-Deplet- 



! . Oats 40 " ) ing Base 



>' Soybeans 40 " ) 120 Acres 



\ Alfalfa 10 " 



■■■ Totbl ....130 " 



■■.rV Vi..-''v'"-- i::'i6 Crops .'■■.; - 



'. Com 40 acres) Soil-Deplet- 



. Oats (seed- ) ing Crops 



ed to ) 113 Acres 



clover) 33 " 



* Soybeans 40 " .-; ■ ■, 

 ,: Alfalfa 17 " 



: Total ....130 " 



In (C) above let us assume that the 

 / farmer reduces his soil-depleting crops 



■ in 1936 only seven acres. He does this 

 by increasing the alfalfa acreage seven 



'. acres, reducing oats the same amount. 

 Class I payment is figured seven acres 



■ times $10, or $70. Class II payment is 

 figured at 17 acres (alfalfa) times $1 



■ equals $17— total $87. But the 17 acres 

 ; of soil-conserving crops in 1936 fails 



by one score to equal 15 per cent of 

 the 1935 soil-depleting base (15% of 

 120 equals 18). The penalty in this 

 case is one acre times the Class I rate 

 per acre ($10) times 1.5 equals $15. 

 Fifteen dollars substracted from $87 

 leaves a total payment of $72. The 

 factor of Ih^ is arbitrary and is used 

 only in computing payments where 

 soil-conserving and soil-building crops 

 are short of the required 15 per cent. 

 —Editor. 



, New Rulings in Con- 

 servation Program 



Recent modifications in the soil con- 

 servation program announced by H. R. 

 . Tolley, acting administrator, follow: 

 (1) The requirement that at least 15 

 per cent as much crop land in soil con- 

 serving crops in 1936 as the 1935 soil- 

 depleting base to be eligible for pay- 

 ments is repealed. But there will be a 

 penalty where the soil-conserving acre- 

 age is less than 15 per cent of the soil- 

 depleting base. This penalty per acre is 

 1% times the per acre rate of Class I 

 payments. Thus if the Class I payment 

 happens to be $8 an acre (depends on 

 fertility of soil) the deduction rate for 

 that farm would be $12 an acre. 



Life Begins 

 at 62 



JOAN BRISSENDEN TAKES 

 granddaddy, L F., for a r!de. 



HER 



Life begins at 62, not 40, if you ask 

 L. F. Brissenden, former I.A.A. dis- 

 trict organization manager, and 

 member of the Clay County Farm 

 Bureau. 



Before the war, Mr. Brissenden 

 bought and paid for four farms in 

 Clay county totaling 524 acres. Then 

 came the post-war deflation which 

 caught him long on cattle. Cattle 

 prices fell almost overnight, and L. 

 F. mortgaged the farms to meet his 

 losses. 



Virtually broke and the farms 

 deeded to the land bank, Brissenden 

 s'arted his comeback two years ago. 

 As a renter, he loaded up on cheap 

 cattle from drouth-stricken areas. 

 Cattle prices soared, and Brissenden 

 was in the money again. Last year 

 he bought back the farm, and at 62 

 he is well on the road to financial 

 security. 



Three days after the deed was re- 

 ceived, a family reunion was held on 

 the old homestead near Flora. Pres- 

 ent were Mrs. Saunders, his only 

 daughter who lives at Sandoval, 

 Oscar D., of the I.A.A. field staff, 

 Paul, a lawyer at Vancouver, British 

 Columbia, Harry, a salesman, and 

 Bob, who is graduating from the 

 teachers' coUege at Carbondale. 



"My work in organizing farmers 

 with a definite program gave me the 

 heart and courage to buy the old 

 farm back again and start life anew 

 at 62," says Mr. Brissenden. 



(2) Farmers who have a large soil- 

 conserving acreage and a moderate or 

 small soil-depleting base may qualify for 

 the Class II or soil-building payments 

 without reducing their soil-depleting 

 acreage. If the soil-depleting acreage is 

 increased, however, from 1935 to 1936 

 a deduction will be made from the Class 

 II payment by an amount equal to the 

 per acre rate of the Class I payment 

 for the farm multiplied by the number 

 of acres in excess of the soil-depleting 

 base. Both this modification and that 

 above are covered in the examples "B" 

 and "C." 



(3) Crops heretofore designated as 

 soil-building and soil-conserving will be 

 classified in one group hereafter called 

 "soil-conserving." 



(4) The definition of crop land has 

 been broadened to include orchards or 

 vineyards planted between January 1, 

 1930 which had not reached bearing age 

 by January 1, 1936. 



(5) Two or more farms in the county 

 owned or operated by the same person 

 may participate in the program as if they 

 were one farmer, and payments may be 

 made with respect to the net diversion 

 or net performance on all the farms. 



The owner may not receive payments if 

 he offsets his soil-conserving perform- 

 ance on one farm by increasing his soil- 

 depleting acreage on another. 



(G) Diversion of payments in the east 

 central region (does not include Illinois) 

 has been changed so that 16 2 '3 per cent 

 will go to the landowner, 16 2 '3 per cent 

 to the person furnishing the work, stock 

 and tools, and 66 2/3 per cent to be 

 divided between the landlord and ten- 

 ant as the crop or proceeds from crops 

 on which Class I payments are made are 

 divided. Change may be made in the di- 

 vision of payments in other regions if 

 recommended by the State Agricultural 

 Conservation Committee and approved by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture. 



(7) The Secretary of Agriculture has 

 authority to withhold payments from 

 any producer who while technically eli- 

 gible for grants has adopted practices 

 which tend to develop the aims of the 

 program. For example, some producers 

 might keep or increase their average 

 acreage of more intensive soil-depleting 

 crops and shift only those crops which 

 while classified as soil-depleting, are in 

 reality less injurious to the soil and the 

 crops remaining in cultivation. 



I. A. A. RECORD 



