Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-06-24
AAA To Modify'37
Sheridan Program
CHANGES ARE TENTATIVE; OUT
LINE MODIFICATION
DETAILS

The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration announced today tenta-
tive notifications of the 1897 Agri-
cultural Conservation program In
western North Dakota and eastern
Montana to meet the emergency in
the areas in those state where
drouth has damaged crops. Formal
approval has not yet been given the
soon as the necessary formal
titles have been complied with.
Even where rains have fallen
within the last 10 days, the pro-
posed notifications are considered
necessary in order to encourage ad-
d%itional paintings of emergency for
age crops, and to make it possible
for farmers to replace ~killed-out
soil-conserving crops with emergen-
cy paintings.
The proposal notifications, which
we're drafted at Washington at a
conference of AAA officials and
state committeeman from the two
states, will provide for a greater use
of practices which reduce wind ero-
sion, encourage a greater planting
OF emergency forage crops, and pro-
vide for water conservation work as
soil-building practices under the
program.
Harry N. Ehrmanntraut, Plenty
wood, member of the state AAA
committee. was called to Washing
ton to attend the conference, and
together with Albert j. Borton of
Bozeman represented Montana at
the session. Mr.. Ehrmanntraut re-
turned Monday.
Details of the proposed modifca-
tons are as follows:
Cultural practices. For both Mon
tana and North Dakota, the final
date for the beginning of the prac-
tice of strip cropping and fallow has
been extended to July Is. This mod
iication was proposed because re-
cent rains make this practice feas-
ible If put into effect before July Is.
The payment rate will remain the
same, 81 an acre on the acreage fall
lowed. AAA officials point out that
whore this practice is instituted af-
ter June l, payment for plowless
fallow will not be made on the same
land.
Emergency forage paintings: Any
acreage of soil-conserving crops
killed out OF the farm by drouth or
winter killing since July /, 1886,
may be replanted to emergency for
age crops, if such paintings are ap-
proved in advance by county AAA
committees before July Is. APP
proved emergency forage crops in
clude millets, Sudan grass, rape,
oats, barley. sorghums, close drilled
corn and annual legumes or mix
lures of such crops. This practice
was formerly applicable only until
May /, and did not include corn. In
many parts of the area, the drouth
has been so severe that such plant
ings have been useless until the re-
cent rains. These emergency plant
ings are classified as land in neutral
acreage.
Water conservation: For water
conservation, the practice of con-
structing earthen pits and reservoirs
to hold run-off has been proposed
for any land on a farm in the desig-
mated areas in Montana and North
Dakota.
For the designated areas in Mon
tana only, the practice of diking for
flood water diversion in order to
spread stream water over a larger
has been made applicable to
non-crop pasture land, as well as to
non-irrigated crop-land. The pay
ment for this practice is 81 an acre
for the land flooded. This practice,
according to the Montana officials,
will benefit a large acreage of pas
ture land In this state which has
not been included under the range
program.