Evening star., 1936-03-21
NEW DEAL RUSHES.
FARM RELIEF PLAN
Seeks to Start Subsidy Be-.
fore Spring Planting Gets
Under Way.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Flashing throughout the country the
signal TO start the complex soil con-
servation machine rolling, the New
Deal strove today to bring the Ma
tion's farmers within the S470,000,0OO
program before Spring planting starts
in earnest.
Farmers were summoned hurriedly
to many conferences to organize
county producers associations. These
will help administer the vast conserva-
tion plan, basis for subsidy payments
to farmers.
Secretary wallace had announced
that the new program, substitute for
the invalidated agriculture adjustment
act, would provide an average payment
of $40 for each acre of commercial,
soil-depleting crop lands shifted to
SOIL conserving uses.
A short time earlier President Roose-
velt had signed an appropriation bill
carrying S440, 100000 for the program
and making $30,00O,00O of unexpended
money available. The same measure
carried a s1,73O 100000 authorization
for paying the bonus.
Wallace acknowledged that some de-
tails of the program are not perfected.
But operation is to begin Immediately,
with the aim of shifting 10000, 900
acres from Soil-depleting crops to con-
servation growths in 1886.
The Secretary said the program was
planned ou an estimate that 80 per
cent of eligible farmers would par
ticipate. Farmers are expected to
begin signing applications for partici-
patton within a week.
The A. A. A. divided all crops into
three classes for subsidy purposes: Soil
depicting, soil conserving and soil
building
Base for Each Farm.
Each participating farm is to have
a soil depicting base acreage"-the
acreage of depicting crops planted in
1885, with notifications to meet "un-
usual situations"
Special soil-depleting bases, cor
responding to the base acreages set
up under the old A. A. A., are to be
established for cotton, tobacco, pea
nuts, sugar, rice and flaxseed.
There are to be two types of SUBJ
sidies-"sol building" and "soil con-
serving" payments.
The soil building payments will be
made for planting soil building crops
on commercial crop land in 1886 and
for approved soil building practices
on crop land or pasture.
The rate of this payment will be
based on the recommendation of
State committees, but will not be
more than 81 an acre. IAN exception
is made for small producers who may
qualify for payments up to SOD
The second, or soil conserving pay
ment, is to be made at specified rate
for shifting soil depicting to soil con-
serving or soil buildings crops for
1886.
Supply Bill Approved.
Meanwhile. the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee approved a $1S7, ,447,-
600 supply bill for the running of the
Agriculture Department for the next
fiscal year. Added to it was $1,000,-
900 fund for continuation of the Mid
western tree shelter belt project. which
had been eliminated by the House.
Midwestern Senators and Repre-
sentatives told the committee that
95, 900, 900 trees now in nurseries would
be lost unless funds were made avail
able to set them out in the 100-mile-
wide strip. intended to hamper future
dust storms.
All in all, the committee added $751;
$4,000 to the measure passed by the
House,