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CHAIIGES ni 1943 AGRICULTUFulL C OIISERVATIOII P ROGRAM 



In order to participate in the 1943 Agricultural Conservation Program 

 a fruit grower must have at least three acres of orchard, small fruits, vegetables, 

 potatoes or tobacco. The "Materials Allov/ance" will amount to $1.20 per acre. 

 This allowance may be applied on lime, superphosphate, 0-14-14, or purchased 

 potash. The application of lime should be based on actual needs as evidenced 

 by a soil test. It may be applied on a commercial orchard, pasture land, or on 

 crop land which the farmer indicates will be tilled in 1942-43. It may also 

 be used where a good stand of perennial legumes is growing. Superphosphate 

 may be used in connection with the planting of annual, biennial, or perennial 

 legumes for forage or cover crops, or permanent pastures, or as a top dressing 

 on penaanent pasture, or on good stands of perermial legumes. 0-14-14 may be 

 used in the same xvay as superphosphate. The same is true of potash. 



The rate of payment for mulching commercial orchards is $4,00 per ton. 

 No limit is placed on the amount to be applied per acre. Rate of payment on 

 winter legume green-manure crops is $3.00 per acre, and on winter non-legume 

 and summer legume green-manure crops $2.00 per acre. If a crop of hay attains 

 a good stand and a good growth evenly distributed on the land, a payment will 

 be allowed for cutting and leaving it on the land instead of plowing or disking 

 it under. 



Other practices forvhich payment will be made under the 1943 program 

 include the grovj-ing of summer non-legume green-manure crops, constructing di- 

 version ditches, terracing, establishing contour strip cropping, maintaining 

 contour strip cropping, establishing sod v;atenf/ays, and for planting forest 

 trees. 



MEIY PJ:D P uASPBERRY VARIETY 



Geneva No. 13618 is being named Milton ajid introduced by the Hew York 

 Fruit Testing Association this fall. Massachusetts grov/ers should find this 

 new variety v/orthy of trial as & late berry. In the College plantation it is 

 a little later than Latham, finn, good size, good quality, attractive, produc- 

 tive, free from mosaic, and more hardy than any other of the New York introduc- 

 tions. A. P. French 



BEACH PLUMS 



The beach plum crop on the Cape was practically a total failure this 

 year. In spite of this, considerable progress has been made in the beach plum 

 improvement project. 



A small plot at East Sandwich, fertilized with 400 pounds per acre of 

 a 4-6-5 fertilizer, had a moderate crop; an adjoining unfertilized plot had no 

 crop. This suggests that even a plant like the beach plum, which grows on the 

 poorest of sandy soils, will be benefited by a little fertilizer. 



