116 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



329 (b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. They provide 

 that: 



The acreage allotment to the county for corn shall be apportioned by the 

 Secretary, through the local committees, among the farms within the county on 

 the basis of tillable acreage, crop rotation practices, type of soil, and topography. 



It is clearly evident that, in order that due consideration may be 

 given to these factors, it is necessary to obtain acreage data for corn 

 and other crops for a number of years sufficient to provide the county 

 committee with: First, a complete land use picture of the farm for 

 determining tillable acreage; second, a basis for determining crop 

 rotation practices followed; and third, a history of crop production 

 which will indicate the adaptability of crops to the soil types and 

 topography of the farm land. 



Mr. Pace. What has the topography got to do with it? 



Mr. Walker. A rolling hillside in eastern Nebraska will wash like 

 the deuce if it is cultivated to corn. In other words, if you have 

 a cultivated crop on that hillside, you will find soil erosion; so that 

 topography really does have something to do with it. 



Mr. Pace. Well I am not going to argue with you, for I doubt 

 that you should cultivate hillsides, but there is nothing in your othep* 

 quota laws which says that topography is to be taken into account? 



Mr. Walker. In the wheat — the wheat provisions are the same 

 as for corn. 



Mr. Pace. Certainly not for cotton. 



Mr. Walker. I do not recall in the case of cotton. 



Mr. Pace. Then suppose a man has a farm of 100 acres, every bit 

 of which is hillside land, he would not get any corn allotment? 



Mr. WALKEJR.'If he has a corn history he would get some corn 

 allotment. 



Mr. Pace. How much consideration do you give to it? 



Mr. Walker. The history of the planting on the farm gives us the 

 basis for determining tillable acreage and crop rotation practices 

 adjustments for the type of soil and the topography, under the 

 regulations are limited to a weight not to exceed 50 percent in the 

 determination of the acreage allotment. We will come to these 

 provisions later. 



Mr. Pace. You are going to take that up later? 



Mr. Walker. Yes; we will take that up as we proceed. 



Mr. Pace. Very well. 



Air. Granger. Mr. Walker, do you not think that as a general 

 rule the areas have })een pretty well established where the crops are 

 going to be grown? 



Mr. Walker. That is correct. 



Mr. Granger. Pretty definiteh' established. I remember some 

 25 years ago down in Missouri some of the best acreage was put into 

 corn production, throughout the entire State, but they did not follow 

 the ])ractice very long until they started raising some other crops. 

 Is not that geneially true? 



Mr. Sutton. I think, Mr. Granger, your general statement would 

 have to be limited by reason of the soil conservation practices that 

 are now being engaged in, such as contotu- farming where they have 

 converted a lot of this hillside laiul into tillable area. 



Mr. Granger. Mr. AA alkcr, that is tak(Mi into consideration. 



