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down to the level of these other producers before the allocation of 

 the allotment. 



Air. Pace. You mean you do or do not give him credit for fallowed 

 land? 



Mr. Walker. I did not saj^ you give him credit for fallowed land. 

 He has not been fallowing. We say that he should fallow. So since 

 he should fallow, if he has been going fence to fence on continuous 

 wheat, they wdl cut his wheat history half in two, to start with. 



Mr. Pace. They cut him down to the fallow man? 



Mr. Walker. That is right. 



Mr. Hope. Suppose the county committee does not want to do that. 

 They may think that continuous cropping is the better practice. 



Mr. Walker. Then it is up to the State committee and their field 

 men to supervise them and see that they do it. 



Mr. Hope. How do you get that word out to them? You do not 

 write it out to them, apparently. 



Mr. Walker. That is in memorandum 123. 



Mr. Hope. You mean there is specific information in 123 that 

 they are supposed to consider summer fallow? 



Mr. Walker. It does not mention summer fallow as such. It 

 mentions the crop rotation practices followed in the communitj^. 



Mr. Hope. Is there any reason why it should not mention summer 

 fallow? There is nothing bad about summer fallow, is there? 



Mr. Walker. Well, that is true. You would mention summer 

 fallow for the summer fallow area and then you would have to mention 

 the other rotations so we did not mention any particualr type of 

 rotation. 



Mr. Hope. They can certainly do it. 



Mr. Walker. They can have grain, com, and clover. 



Mr. Hope. It seems to me that if you are preparing instructions for 

 some certain area you could be specific and say what practices they 

 should take iato consideration. It certamly would make the job 

 easier for your field men and the others who are supposed to coordinate 

 this thing if something was said about what practices were to be 

 cinsidered. 



Now, in some counties there would not be any question about 

 summer fallow. But you might have some counties where it would 

 not be accepted that summer fallow is necessarily the best practice 

 or the only sod-conserving practice. It is in those counties that I 

 believe you are going to have some trouble. If you have a county 

 committee doing one thing in one county and somethmg else in the 

 next county, I understand you can see that they get together, but 

 what are they going to get together on if you do not have some 

 standard? 



Mr. Entermille. Of course, each one of these State committees 

 with their technical committees and the college people spend a lot 

 of time working out the policies regarding the various districts of their 

 States. I think it would be a mistake to go from Washington with 

 definite instructions to all States. Conditions vary a great deal. 

 Even in some of your counties, Mr. Hope, you have one side of the 

 county pretty generally summer fallowing and the other side of the 

 county pretty generally continuously cropping. You have other 

 areas in whole counties where the crop rotation is 2 years of wheat in 3. 



