Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-05-15
Community
Meetings In
Somerset Co.

A series of community sign-up meet
ings to be held in Somerset County
during the next two weeks, have been
arranged by County Agent c. q. Kel-
Ter, for the purpose of preparing the
work sheets.
A farm owner or operator who de-
sires to qualify for payments under
the new agricultural Conservation
program will fill out work sheet for
each tract of land he owns or oper-
ates in the county.
20 contracts will be signed under
the 1886 program, nor will the filling
out of a work sheet in any way OBJ
ligate the owner or operator of the
farm. The chief purpose of the work
sheet, is to aid in setting up soil de-
pleting bases which will be used in
determining the farmers contribution
to soil conservation, his eligibility
for payment and the amount of pay
ment due him.
4uc community ALCSIAhSS Will Nc
held as follows:
Rehoboth- Store, Friday
May 18th and Thursday, May 21st.
Northumberland Garage, Sat-
urday, May 18th and Friday, May 22.
Pocomoke - Gladding's Garage,
Monday, May 18th and Saturday,
May 23rd.
Princess Anne - County Agents
Office, Tuesday, May 10Th and Tues
day, May 26th.
Westover--W. C. Ford's Store, Wed
nesday, May Goth and Monday, May
25th.
Applications will be received and
work sheets will be prepared during
the day or night from A. M. to 9
P. M, in order that every farmer will
have the opportunity to have his work
sheet prepared at one Of the meetings.
The most important information
sought in the work sheet is the name
and acreage Of all crops harvested in
1885. Acreage figures also will be
collected on idle crop land in 1885,
on crop land pasture, non crop pasture
land, orchards and vineyards and
roads,, lanes, buildings, feed lots and
miscellaneous non-crop land.
The principal crops which will make
up soil depicting bases for farmers
in this county are corn, Irish potatoes,
commercial truck and canning crops,
soybeans for hay or seed and small
grain harvested for grain or hay.
Soil conserving crops include prac-
tically all annual, biennial and percc-
NAL legumes as the clovers, lespedeza
and grasses, grown on crop land from
which no soil depicting crop is har-
vested during the year.
There will be Class l payment of
approximately $1,000 an acre for soil
conserving crop acreage up to max
imum of Is per cent of the soil de-
pieting crop bae.
On addition there is second class
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soil building payment for each acre
in soil conserving crop. Payments
will be made for certain approved soil
building practices as follows: 1. Seed
ing of legumes; 2. Growing green ma
nure crops; 8. Planting Forest Trees;
4. Improving land by the use of lime;
5. Improving land by the use Of acid
phosphate.
Mr.. Keller states that there is a
possibility of total of $4,000 bene-
fit payments being received by the
farmers of the county this year.
Some of the payments will amount to
several hundred dollars to the farm.
The drought this spring has reduced
the planting of some of the soil de-
plotting crops and instead of allow
ing the land to remain idle, if one of
the Soil Conserving Crops is seeded
during the summer or as late as Oc-
tober 31st, will enable the farmer to
qualify for the benefit payment.
However work sheets must be pre-
pared during the next two weeks, in
order for the farmer to be eligible for
a payment at a later date.