The Sauk Centre herald., 1936-03-26
Discussions
OnNeWSoil
Project Soon
Meeting Will Be Held In
Sauk Centre On April
1St
ALL MEETINGS OPEN
There Will Be No Contract
Under New Government
Set-up
County Agent Lenzmeier)

(County agent Lenzmeier)
The new soils conservation pro-
gram will get under way next week
In Stearns county with a series of
Is meetings scheduled at various
points In the county according to
the county extension office at st.
Cloud. The temporary county
committee composed of Frank
Winter, of Roscoe, John Terwey, of
st. Joseph, Edwin Manz, of Paynes-
vile and VIM. J. Kleve, Freeport,
and the county agricultural agent
will attend the two day conferen-
ce at University Farm on Friday
and Saturday, March 27-28 at which
the details Of the new program will
be outlined. The meetings for next
week are scheduled as follows:
Monday, March 30, 1000 A. NJ:
Opera House, Belgrade.
Monday, March 30, 900 p. M:
Greenwald.
Monday, March 30. 7:3O p. M:
Village Hall basement, Paynesville.
Tuesday, March 81, 200 p. M:
Village Hall, Melrose.
Tuesday, March 81, 7:30 p. M:
Village Hall, Freeport.
Wednesday, April 1, 1000 A. M:
Village Hall, Albany.
Wednesday, April 1, 200 P. M:
Community Club Rooms, Sauk Gen.
ire.
Wednesday, April 1, 7:3O p. M:
Raymond Town Hall, Padua.
Thursday, April 2, 200 P. NJ:
Mike Cipala's Place, Holdingford.
Thursday, April 2, 7:30 p. M:
Village Hall, Avon.
Friday, April 8, 1000 A. M: Viii
lage Hall, st. Joseph.
/ Friday, April 4, 200 p. NJ: VIII
lage Hall, Richmond.
Friday, April 8, 1880 P. M: Coun-
Gil Rooms, Cold Spring.
Saturday, April 4, 1000 A. M:
Village Hall, Fair Haven.
Saturday, April 4, 200 P. M:
Community Room, Court House, st.
Cloud.
While payments under the soils
program will be smaller than under
the AAA there are several advan-
tages that producers will enjoy
that were not possible under the
AAA. Among these are milder re-
quirements which will make every
farm eligible regardless of how
large or small it may be. There will
be no minimum acreage and live
stock number qualifications such
as were necessary under the AAA.
The 1885 crop acreage will be basis
of calculation and this acreage
will be divided into soil building
and soil depicting crops. Among
the former will be such crops like
pasture, meadow, alfalfa, clovers,
etc. Among the soil depicting crops
will be listed the common farm
crops such as wheat, corn, oats,
barley, tobacco, potatoes, etc. In
general the plan calls for a partial
shift from soil depicting to soil
building crops. Two schedules of
payments will be made. Soil build
ing crops already planted at this
time will call for a minimum pay
ment while much larger payment
will be made for new acreage
planted to soil building crops.
Stearns county has nearly 100,-
600 head of dairy cattle on its
farms. To properly feed these cat
tie for profit many thousands of
acres of alfalfa and clovers should
be grown. At present the acreages
Of these legumes is extremely low
and large increase in acreage
should be planted in 1896 even
though the soils program had not
come. With benefit payment at
tached with their planting the le-
gume acreage should show a tre-
mendous growth.
The cry of farm RECOMMENDATION"
will hardly hold good with this
new program. There will be no
contract. The producer will name
the percentage of his crop land that
he wishes to plant to soil building
crops for pay. All remaining land
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