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25.00 General Soil Depleting Pay't 

 15.00 Soil Conserving Payment 



J359.00 Total Pay't for Full Compliance 

 The soil conserving payment is 

 earned by completing ten soil building 

 units which is the soil building goal 

 for the farm. The soil building goal 

 is the number of units of soil building 

 practices equal to two-thirds of the 

 number of soil conserving dollars com- 

 puted for the farm. 



Example: 2/3 of 15 (dollars in the 

 soil conserving payment) or 10 units. 

 The following is a partial list of soil 

 building units: 



1. Each acre of the following 

 shall be counted as one unit : 



A. Seeding Biennial legumes, 

 perennial legumes, peren- 



, nial grasses (other than 

 timothy or red top) or 

 mixtures (jrirer than a mix- 

 ture consisting solely of 

 timothy and red top) con- 

 taining perennial grasses, 

 perennial legumes, or bien- 

 nial legumes. (Seeding 2 

 acres of timothy or red top 

 also counts as one unit.) 



B. Seeding winter legumes, an- 

 nual lespedeza or annual 

 sweet clover. 



2. Application of 2,000 pounds 

 of ground limestone or its 

 equivalent. 



3. Application of 500 pounds of 

 rock phosphate in connection 

 with seeding perennial legumes 

 or permanent pasture. 



4. Application of 200 pounds of 

 50 per cent potash in connec- 

 tion with seeding perennial 

 legumes or permanent pasture. 



5. Reseeding depleted pastures 

 with good seed of adapted 

 pasture grasses or legumes — 

 10 pounds of seed. 



6. Construction of 200 linear feet 

 of standard terrace for which 

 proper outlets are provided. 



There are numerous additional prac- 

 tices which, if followed, count toward 

 reaching the soil-building goal. Your 

 township or community committee can 

 tell you about them. 



Now suppose that you planted 60 

 acres of corn instead of the allotted 

 50, thus invoking a deduction. You 

 would figure your payments the same 

 as before with one more calculation. 



The deduction for overplanting corn 

 acreage allotments is five times the 

 bushel rate of payment and is computed 

 for overplanted acres only. Figure 

 this way: 5 times 10 cents times 35 

 (yield) times 10 acres (excess) — total, 

 $175. Subtract the deduction from the 

 total payment: $35900 less $175.00, 

 equals $184.00 — the payment you will 

 get if you plant ten acres more than 

 your allotment. 



Note, too, that you overplanted by 

 20 per cent and that the deduction can- 

 cels the corn acreage allotment pay- 

 ment. No matter what your real acreage 

 is, when you overplant your corn allot- 

 ment by 20 per cent the payment is 

 wiped out. If you overplant by more 

 than 20 per cent, the resulting deduc- 

 tion will be taken from your total pay- 

 ment. 



Deductions will be made, too, for 

 overplanting your general soil deplet- 

 ing allotment. The rate of this deduc- 

 tion is eight times the rate of payment 

 on each acre overplanted. 



Example: Assume that the 30 acres 

 in your soil conserving acreage had 

 been seeded to clover in 1937. Say 

 that it was winter-killed. You elect 



to plant 30 acres to soybeans to harvest 

 for seed, thus overplanting your soil 

 depleting acreage allotment by 30 acres. 

 Your deduction would be: 8 times 

 $1.25 (varies with productivity) times 

 30 acres (excess) equals $300, deduc- 

 tion to be subtracted from your total 

 payment. Total payment would then 

 be $59. 



You could avoid the deduction by 

 using soybeans for hay or green manure 

 crop which would put the crop in the 

 non-depleting class. 



If you are a tenant or landlord and 

 share expenses and returns equally, 

 payments will be equally divided. Ten- 

 ants renting for cash will receive the 

 total payment earned. 



Farmers who operate small acreages 

 will have their payments increased be- 

 tween 14 and 40 per cent according to a 

 definite schedule that runs from an in- 

 crease of 40 cents for the $1 payment to 

 $14 for payments from $60 to $185.99. 

 A Court of Appeals 



Any person who is not satisfied with 

 any recommendation or determmation 

 of his county committee that affects 

 his interests will have ample opportun- 

 ity for a hearing of his grievances. 

 Within 15 days after he receives notice 

 of action by the committee that affects 

 any farm in which he is interested, he 

 may request the county committee in 

 writing to reconsider. 



The committee will reply to his re- 

 quest within 15 days after it has been 

 received. If he is still not satisfied, he 

 may forward the decision of the com- 

 mittee to the state soil conservation 

 committee. He will receive the de- 

 cision of that group in 30 days after 

 filing his appeal. 



If he is not satisfied with the decision 

 of the State Committee, he can, in 15 

 days after the decision, request the Re- 

 gional Director to review his case. 



TTS A BIG JOB" 

 Saya lohn Barry, Edgar County Soil Conserrotion Com- 

 mittee, as John Mattingly and Walter Clouse, township 

 conunitleeinen, report farm histories. 



FARMS SURVEYED WHILE YOU WATT 

 Emma Alice Scott of the Vermilion County Soil Conserva- 

 tion office measures the area of a farm with planimeter 

 and an aerial photograph. 



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