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Soil Conservation Program 

 For '37 Different From '36 



There are three classes of payment 

 available to farmers who meet the condi- 

 tions set up under the 1937 Agricultural 

 (Conservation Program. First, the diver- 

 sion payment for the diversion of acreage 

 from a soil-depleting base. Second, the 

 conserving payment for the increase of 

 .soil-conserving acreage. Third, the soil- 

 huilding payment for carrying out an ap- 

 proved soil-building practice. 



Like the 19.36 program, the 1937 Agri- 

 cultural Conservation Program provides 

 that: for each county, a county nite of 

 payment per acre for diversion from the 

 general soil-depletmg base be established 

 by the AAA. The average county rate 

 for the United States is $6 per acre. 

 The rate for Illinois counties has not yet 

 Ixen announced. County diversion rates 

 vary with the productivity or average 

 crop yields of counties. 



Diversion payments will be paid for 

 reducing the acreage planted to corn or 

 other cultivated crops and wheat or other 

 non-cultivated grain crops, below the 

 total soil-depleting base for each farm. 

 And the total soil-depleting base for any 

 farm will be the total soil-depleting base 

 which was or could have been established 

 for the farm under the 1936 Agricultural 

 Conservation Program. Bases are subject 

 to changes in classification of land in 

 1937. 



Soil-conserving payments will be made 

 for acreage planted to soil-improving 

 crops, above the soil-conserving ba.se for 

 any farm. The soil-conserving base is 

 found by substracting the total soil-de- 

 pleting base from the total acreage of 

 crop land in the farm. The rate per acre 

 for conserving payment will be 50 per 

 cent of the diversion payment. 



Soil-building payments will be made 

 only when the operator has carried out 

 soil-building practices by conforming to 



good farming practices. Soil-building 

 payments will be based on scedings of 

 adapted legumes, seedings of adapted 

 perennial grasses, application of lime- 

 stone, application of phosphates, applica- 

 tion of potash, planting and protection 

 of trees, and terracing. A definite sched- 

 ule of payments has been established for 

 tliese soil-building practices. 



Corn farmers who comply with the 

 conditions of the Agricultural Conserva- 

 tion Program can qualify for a corn limit 

 payment. This payment will be five per 

 cent more than the diversion payment. 

 To qualify for the corn limit payment the 

 cooperator must keep his corn acreage 

 within the corn limit set up for his farm 

 by the county conserv.ition association or 

 committee. 



Noteworthy provisions ol tlic \'i'->~ 

 program are as follows: di\ersion pay- 

 ments will be made for decreasing the 

 soil-depleting crops below the soil-deplet- 

 ing base for 193"". Conserving payments 

 will be made only when the ai:rcs on 

 which diversion p.iyments are made are 

 matched by increased acres of soil -con- 

 serving crops. Two-thirds of the pos- 

 sible total payment for diversion .and con- 

 servation will be represented by the 

 diversion payment. One-third of the 

 maximum total payment will be repre 

 sented by the conserving payment. The 

 maximum on which conserving payments 

 may be made is limited to 1 "i per cent of 

 the soil-depleting base. 



In the hands of the county conserva- 

 tion committees are such matters as, the 

 soil-depleting base for each farm ; corn 

 limits; pasture grazing capacities for non- 

 crop plowable acreage ; county rates of 

 payment for diversion, conservation, and 

 soil-building practices; determination of 

 eligibility for payments, and division of 

 payments between tenants and owners. 



In most ways the 193" program is like 

 the 1936 program except that greater 

 stress has been placed on growing soil- 

 conserving and soil-building crops. 



Rural Youth Radio Forums 



Adults \\ho tuned in on the Youth 

 Radio Forums, April 2^, were surprised 

 at the intelligent discourses they heard 

 delivered by farm youngsters who dis- 

 cussed the farm tenanc)' problem and its 

 effext on future generations, says Frank 

 Gingrich, director ol young peoples' ac- 

 tivities for the lAA. 



On May 2, another group is to present 

 views on the question. "Vi'hat should 

 farmers aim to accomplish througli C)r 

 ganization?' 



Hefore any one of the speakers at- 

 tempts to .answer the question, he or she 

 obtains opinions from at least two farm- 

 ers, one business man and one home- 

 maker, lath memlxr of the radio forum 

 compares the answers of the persons w ith 

 whom he talked, to the conclusions 

 drawn by the Ixst students of the prob 

 lem to be- found in the country. 



On .May 9. -4- young folks, .six speak- 

 ing from each of seven radio stations. 

 will an.ily/c the Illinois property tax and 

 its elicit on the future of farm youth. 

 How interdependent are .igriculture, 

 business and industry.' " will be the ques 

 tion under examination by anotlicr set of 

 42 young men and women from all j^arts 

 of the stale on May 16. 



I'he following stations v^ill broadcast 

 the Rural Youth Radio Ibrums each Sun- 

 day, beginning April 2") and continuing 

 through May 16. at the time indicated: 

 8:30 - 9:00 A.M. \\T)Z Tuscola; 

 ::0() - - 2:^0 P.M.. WMBD Peoria. 

 ::00 2:30 P.M.. WROK Rockford; 



2:30 3:00 P..M., VCTAD Quinc)-; 



6:00 - 6:1 "> P.M.. \VJBC Blooming- 

 ton; 7:00 -- 7:30 P.M., W'CBS Spring- 

 field; and. -:00 -:30 P.M. WTBQ 

 Harrisburg 



Spanish rebels destroy cooperatives 



by shooting the technical otlicials. a 

 news report savs. 



