land in the conservation reserve will earn the full regular 

 rate plus a 10 percent bonus for all their eligible acres. 

 If the individual farm's regular rate was $14, the 10 per- 

 cent increase would bring the applicable rate to $15.40 

 per acre. To earn this rate the contract period must not 

 be less than 5 years. 



(4) On farms where only part of the eligible land is put in 

 the reserve, the annual rental rate will be lower if the 

 land designated for the reserve is below the average for 

 the farm in productivity. 



The definition of a "Farm" and "Cropland" as outlined in the 1959 

 Program are as follows:^ 



1. "Farm" means all adjacent or nearby farm or range land under 

 the same ownership which is operated by one person, including 

 also: 



a. Any other adjacent or nearby farm land which the county 

 committee determines is operated by the same person as 

 part of the same unit in producing livestock, or with re- 

 spect to the rotation of crops and with workstock, machin- 

 ery, and labor substantially separate from that for any other 

 land. 



b. Any field-rented tract (whether operated by the same or 

 another person) which, together with any other land in- 

 cluded in the farm, constitutes a unit with respect to the 

 rotation of crops. 



A farm shall be regarded as located in the county in which the 

 principal dwelling is situated. If there is no dwelling thereon, 

 it shall be regarded as located in the county in which the major 

 portion of the farm is located. 



2. "Cropland" means farm land which was tilled or was in regu- 

 lar crop rotation during the year immediately preceding the first 

 year of the contract period, including also land which was estab- 

 lished in permanent vegetative cover, (other than trees) since 

 1953, and which was classified as cropland at the time of seeding. 



THE COOS COUNTY FARM SETTING SINCE 1920 



The bulk of the Coos County agricultural plant was inherited from 

 previous generations by the farmers of the 1920's. It was a legacy well 

 suited to early nineteen-hundred conditions for a prosperous agriculture. 

 Many barns, 100 feet long or longer, housed sizable dairy herds and pro- 

 vided storage for abundant hay crops. Horses were the source of farm 

 power. They and their equipment were well adapted to the rolling hills. 

 A moderately stony or small field was not an uneconomic unit for horse- 

 drawn equipment and hand production methods. 



^ See Footnote 3, op. cit. 



