Plentywood herald., 1936-04-16
FARMERS WILL HEAR
OF SOIL PROGRAM
At COUNTY MEETS
New Program Outlined; Soil
Conservation Is Basic
Principle


The new soil conservation program,
farmers, was unfolded this week and
farmers will be given an opportunity
to learn of the set-up at a series OF
meetings to be held throughout the
county within the next two weeks.
The new program drafted to take
the place of the shattered AAA is
based fundamentally on soil conserva-
ton. A general outline of the new
program was obtained by delega-
ton of farmers at a meeting held by
the Extension service at Wolf Point
Thursday A temporary committee OF
eight has been named by County
Agent Peterson to assist in the ex-
planatory program Members Of the
committees are G. E. Fulkerson, Harry
Ehrmanntraut, John Shoal, R. c. Ty-
Ter, Nels Olson, from the county wheat
board, P. c. Petersen, Walter Bye,
from the former Corn-Hog county
board and Carl Hole, from the county
planning committee.
The first meeting of the series was
held last night at Homestead. Tonight
a similar meeting will be held at Med
icine Lake. Friday, farmers in the An
telope community will have an oppor-
tunity to learn of the new farm pro-
gram. Saturday, meetings will be held
at Reserve and Dagmar. The meeting
will be held at 1:30
Monday the program will be out
lined at Plentywood and Coalridge
Westby and Outlook will learn of
the new program next Tuesday and
Comertown and Redstone on Wednes-
day. Meetings for Dooley and Archer
will be next Thursday and at Ray
mond and Wolf Creek Friday, April
"a. The sessions will begin promptly
at 7:30 pm.
County Agent NJ j. Peterson states
that permanent county association
of farmers will be set up later and
will be similar to the farmers associ-
alton set up to administer the former
allotment program.
Points ON Program
A few points on the new program
are: ID On contracts; farmers must
learn the minimum requirements and
meet them, to be eligible for a grant
or payment. (2) payments will be
mede for shifting from soil depicting
cssas-,-s .ss.. Ii 1oo- 10 III. III,
crops in 1886 CD crops are classified
as.
l. Soil Depicting which includes
corn, potatoes, small grains harvested
for grains or hay, (wheat, oats, barley,
rye, buckwheat, flax, emmer, spelts
and grain mixtures) Annual grasses
harvested for hay and seed (sudan
and millets), summer legumes har-
vested for grain or hay, (soybeans,
| field beans, cowpeas and field peas.
1t has been recommended for Montana
that summerfallow be included in the
above group.
1t is from the above group of crops
| plus former AAA contracted acres
that minimum acreage of Is per cent
shift be made to the following crops:
l. Soil Conserving (a) annual le-
gumes, (b) perennial grasses (c) win
ter cover crops (d) crop acreage
planted to forest trees since January
l, 1884. A third classification is the
soil building crops, upon which
smaller, supplementary payment will
be made. The fourth classification OF
acres are those known as neutral. Fur
ther details will be given at the meet
ings.
(4) There will be special program
for flax. (5) Certain recommendations
have been made for Montana by farm
er representatives. A few of the i'm
portant ones are (a) that payments
be made for changing to strip farm
ing (b) that payments be made for
! flood irrigation (c) that payments be
made for weed control (d) that pay
ments be made for contouring and
terracing.
After educational meetings are held
a work sheet will be filled out by each
farmer and the county committee will
make necessary adjustments.
Farmers who wish to qualify for the
payments must be sure to meet the
minimum requirements.
Only by attending the meetings can
each farmer get the full details to ap-
ply to his Individual farm, the county
agent said.