The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1936-03-19
new FARM PLANS
TO BE READY BY
PLANTING SEASON
New Program Called Simp-
pier Than AAA Soil Saw
ing Important Feature

Minnesota farmers were repre-
sented at soil conservation act
conference in Chicago March At
by Frank w. White and j. S..
Jones, president and secretary of
the Minnesota Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton. The soil conservation act,
replacing the outlawed AAA, has
the two-fold purpose of conserv-
ing the fertility Of the nations
farm land and adjusting produc-
ton to the needs of national and
international market, its propon-
ents declare.
Said to embrace a minimum of
red tape, the new act will be
simpler to administer than was
the AAA. Those who invoke the
act need sign no contracts, but
grants of money will be paid them
by the federal government for
planting stated percentages of
their arabic land to soil building
crops. These schedules have not
yet been worked out, but will be
available by the time the Mime
sofa planting season arrives, it
was announced.
As in the case of the AAA, adj
ministrative work in Minnesota
will be directed by the state col
lege of agriculture, with local
werk carried on through county
Farm Bureau and extension Of
fees.
C. E. Ewing, president of the
National Livestock Marketing as
ISOLATION, asserted at the Chicago
meeting that the act tuned pro-
6uction at too low a level and that
foreign markets should be de-
veloped to take the full output of
American farms. He also object
ed to the cost of putting the new
farm act into effect.
L. ]. Tabor, master of the Ma
tional Grange, took a different
view, stating that "You can make
this act so serviceable to the peo-
pie of America that it can become
an Ark of the Covenant for bet
ter day."
AS soon as details are complete,
county Farm Bureaus will carry
on intensive campaigns to make
all interested farmers acquainted
with the provisions of the new
act, in order that those who wish
to use it may plan their springs
work in accordance.
Under the plan crops will be di-
vided into two classes, soil deple-
ting and soil restoring. Soil de-
pleting crops include corn, tobac-
co, all small grains, potatoes, su-
gar beets, flax, cultivated truck
and canning crops, orchards and
small fruits and similar crops.
The soil restoring crops include
grass, hay and pasturage crops.
Under recommendation of the
conference administration commit
tees would be set up in each coun-
ty. These committees would COM
pute the average percentage OF
land in the county devoted at pre-
sent to soil restoring crops. Beae-
fit payments to farmers would be
based on the difference between
the present percentage of soil re-
storing crops and the percentage
to be achieved under the adjust
ment program.
Farmers would receive a pay
ment for all acreage of their land
between the county percentage
and the adjustment percentage
which was transferred from soil
depicting to soil restoring crops.
If the farmer at present has more
land in soil restoring crop than
the county average he would re-
ceive a maintenance payment for
such acreage. The maintenance
payment would be 10 per cent OF
the amount paid for actual diver
sion into soil conserving produc-
ton.
A grade scale of benefit, pay
ments would be formulated for
benefit payments depending on the
productivity of the land so that
acres of poor land in northern
Minnesota, for instance would not
make the farmer eligible for the
same amount of money as high
productive land in the southern
part of the state.