The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-02-11
Rates for Soil
Payments for
1887 Given
$3.50 Per Acre to Be Paid for
Planting Forest Trees
on Crop Lands

Soil-building payments offered
North Carolina farmers who partici-
pate in the soil-conServation pro-
gram this year have been announced
by j. F. Criswell, of State College.
The maximum amount of these
payments a grower will be eligible
to earn is called his soil-building al
lowance, Criswen said.
These payments will be in addi-
ton to the diversion payments Of
fered for taking land out of soil-de-
pleting crops and planting it to soil
conserving crops.
On farms where a diverion pay
ment can be earned, the soil-build-
ing allowance will be 81 for each
acre normally devoted to soil--con-
serving crops, plus the number OF
acres diverted from soil-depleting
crops.
For farms not able to earn any di-
version payment, the soil-building
allowance will be rs cents for each
acre of crop land or 81 for each acre
in soil-conserving crops, whichever
amount is larger.
In both cases additional allow
ances will be made for truck grow
ers, orchardists, and dairymen, Girls
well continued.
The rates of soil-building pay
ments are:
For planting approved seeds of
legumes and perennial grasses: Al
falfa, $3.50 per acre. Red clover,
mamoth clover, sericea, kudzu, and
bluegrass, So per acre. Austrian win
ter peas, vetch, crimson clover, al
sike clover, sweet clover, annual
lespedeza, and orchard grass, $3.50
per acre. White clover, buck clover,
crotalaria, redtop, carpet grass,
Dallis grass, and timothy, 81 per
acre.
For blowing or disking under as
green manure the following crops
after they have attained normal
growth of at least two months, or
for leaving on the land certain OF
these crops grown in 1887:
Soybeans, velvet beans, or cow
peas plowed or disked under, 81 per
acre. Crimson clover, Austrian win
ter peas, or vetch; rye, barley,
wheat, buckwheat, Italian rye grass,
oats, or a mixture of these; sudan
grass, millet, sorghum, or sowed
corn-plowed or disked under, 81
per acre. Soybeans, velvet beans,
cowpeas, or lespedeza left on the
land, neither cut nor grazed, 81 per
acre. 49,
For planting forest trees on crop
land, $3.50 per acre; on other land,
S. per acre. For approved forest
thinning, $3.50 per acre.
For applying ground limestone or
it's equivalent on crop land or nom
crop pasture land at the rate of 1000
pounds to 2 1-2 tons per acre, 81
per ton.
For applying 16 per cent super
phosphate or it's equivalent at the
rate of 100 to 500 ounds per acre on
any permanent pasture or in con-
nection with seeding or maintaining
specified legumes or grasses, 60
cents per 100 pounds.
If the superphosphate is applied
in connection with certain legumes
or erennial grasses seeded in con-
nection with soil-depleting crops,
the payment will be 80 cents per 100
pounds.
The AAA will make available at
Sheffield, Ala, triple superphos-
plate, containing 43 per cent phos-
horic acid, which will be offered
farmers who ay the freight costs
and handling charges. On this SUI
perphosphate no soil-building pay
ments will be made.
For applying 80 to $50 pounds of
so per cent muriate of potash or its
equivalent to the acre on land where
16 per cent superphosphate or its
equivalent is applied, ST per 100
ounds. If muriate of potash is appli-
ed in connection with legume or
perennial grass grown in connection
with a soil-depleting crop, the pay
ment will be so cents per 100
pounds.
For terracing crop land or non
crop pasture land, which the county
committee finds in need of terrac-
ing, with a sufficient amount Of
poperly constructed terraces to give
adequate protection against erosion,
40 cents per 100 feet of terraces.
Upon approval of the county COM
n1ittee, payment will be made at the
rate of So per acre for subsoiling
crop land to a depth of l8 inches,
with burrows sufficiently close to-
gether to completely break the sub
soil.