The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-02
Payments And Other Parts OF
1893 Farm Program Explained
Soil-Depleting And Soil Build
ing Goals Provided For
1888,

editors note: AT the request OF
The Skyland Post, this article was
prepared in the Office of the Ashe
Farm Agent. Every farmer is urged
to read it,
The 1888 Agricultural Conserva-
ton program represents continu-
alton of the program under which
farmers have been cooperating
since 1888 in an effort to stabilize
agricultural production and in
come.
The program represents a pro-
gressive development from previ-
GUS programs, but the detectives
are the same as in 1896 and 1887
These detectives are:
CD To maintain adequate
production of farm products in
line with demand, so as to
stabilize farm income at levels
fair to farmers.
(2) To conserve and improve
prove resources.
The new features of the 1888 pro-
gram are:
~ The use of sOil-depleting
goal.
(2) The use of sOil-building
goal.
These goals will be established
for Individual farms. The goal for
each farm will be the proportionate
acreage allotted for each farm after
the county goals have been re-
ceived and studied by the county
committee. The "soil depicting
goal" is each farms share of all the
acreage this country needs, with
average yields, to produce all the
"soil-depleting crops" needed, both
by our own people and to sell to
foreign countries. So the aim is
to plant as much as needed, but
no more of these crops Should we
plant more, we just risk wasting
the use of land and labor in pro-
ducing something that no one wants
to buy at a decent price.
The ''soil-building goaT' will in
clude things to ba done for the
sake of improving farm land
through good farming practices. So
the aim is to get at least up to the
soil-building goal on every farm
and beyond it if possible. This is
just simply storing up in the soil
the fertility we don't need right
now to produce crops"
The payments are earned by
meeting these two goals-not over
nlanting your soil-depleting goal
and by coming up to your soil
building goal. The maximum pay
ment for your farm will be figured
on the same basis as it is figured
for all other farms like yours
throughout the country. The coun-
ty Committee will tell you at the
same time they set your goals, how
much your payment will be. The
way the payments are figured is
to add together allowances of so
many cents a pound on the normal
yields per acre Of the crops which
you raise. There are also allow
ances for soil-donserving crops,
and commercial vegetables.
The following payments will be
made for staying within your soil
depicting goal. One dollar and
half adjusted for productivity on
general crops; one-half cent per
pound of the normal yield per acre
OF Burlay tobacco, within your
goal; six cents per bushel of the
normal yield per acre of potatoes
planted on the farm in 1888, not in
excess of the potato goal. CA potato
goal will not be established for
any farm which does not have an
average of three acres or more for
the years 1936-37.) Seventy cents
par acre on Isoil-conSerNing acre
age, plus two dollars per acre of
the average acreage of commercial
vegetables, and twenty-five cents
per acre of fenced non-crop open
pasture in excess of one-half of
the number Of acres of crop land
on the farm, which is capable of
maintaining during the normal pas
ture season at least one animal unit
for each five acres of such pasture
land.
The following allowance will be
made toward reaching your soil