GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 131 



A. Column (30). Area 'A" or "B," will be used only in those counties in which 

 there are two or more distinct types of land with respect to adaptation to the 

 production of corn. In counties In which the county committee, with the approval 

 of the State committee, determines that two or more different areas exist, the 

 following instructions will be applicable. The division of the county into areas 

 on the basis of the adaptation of such areas to the production of corn will be 

 determined as follows : 



1. The county committee with the assistance of the State committee will 

 indicate on a map of the county the approximate outline of the different areas 

 determined upon the basis of the different adaptations of the respective area to 

 the production of corn by referring to aerial photographs, soil survey or relief maps 

 when such maps are available, other similar information available in the county 



. office, and the basis of their general knowledge of the topographic features of 

 the county. 



Ordinarily the county will not be divided into more than two such areas; the 

 areas so determined will be designated "Area A," "Area B," etc. 



2. Thf^ community committee will then be instructed to determine, upon the 

 basis of such outline map. and their knowledge of the physical features of the 

 several farms which have to do with the adaptation to the production of corn, in 

 which of such areas the respective farms lie. The farms which lie in a single area 

 will be designated "Area A," or ""Area B," whichever is applicable. The county 

 outline map will then be redrawn to show the outlines of the several areas to 

 conform with the line of the bordering farms designated as lying within such areas. 



The basis for the determination of the area in which the respective farms lie 

 should reflect the adaptation of the land on the farm to the production of corn 

 and should not reflect the individual history of the farm. 



Examples of distinguishing characteristics of such areas are — 



1. Overflow or river-bottom lands as distinguished from uplands. 



2. In the Western areas hard lands' adaptation to the production of wheat, as 

 distinguished from sandy lands especially adapted to the production of corn. 



v. IXSTRT CTIONS FOR DETERMINING INDICATED CORN ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS WITH 

 RESPECT TO TYPES OF SOIL AND TOPOGRAPHY OF FARM LAND 



Enter in column (31) the XCR-203 indicated corn-acreage allotment which is 

 obtained as follows: 



.4. Instructions for counties within which designated areas huce been established — 

 1. Obtain the area and county totals of column>^ (12). indicated total soil-depleting 

 acreage for the farm, and (28), 1936-37 average acreage of corn nncluding stricken 

 entries), for the farms in each area in the county as designated in column (30). 



2. Obtain the percentage that the corn acreage in each area is of the total corn 

 acreage in the coimty by dividing each area total of column (28) by the coimty 

 total of column (28). 



3. Multiply the county corn acreage allotment by each area percentage as 

 obtained in the preceding step. 



4. Obtain area factors by dividing each result obtained in the preceding step 

 by the respective area total of column (12), indicated total soil-depleting acreage 

 for the farm, and enter each factor in the box at the head of column (31) opposite 

 the appropriate area letter. 



5. Multiply each entry in column (12) by the applicable area factor obtained 

 in the preceding step and enter the result in column (31), indicated corn-acreage 

 allotment. 



B. Instructions for counties within which designated areas have not been estah~ 

 lished. — 1. Obtain the county total of column (12), indicated total soil-depleting 

 allotment. 



2. Obtain a factor by dividing the county corn acreage allotment by the county 

 total of column (12) and enter such factor in the box at the head of column (31), 

 indicated corn acreage allotment. 



3. Multiply each entry in column (12) by the factor which has been entered in 

 the box at the head of column (31). 



