The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-09-23
PROVISIONS OF 1899
AAA PROGRAM ARE
ANNOUNCED

The 1889 AAA Farm Program for
Maryland and the rest of the coun-
try will be similar in most respects
to the 1898 program, according to
c. z. Keller, State Executive Officer.
AS in 1888, the 1899 program
will include establishment of in
dividual allotments for wheat and
potatoes, as well as an allotment for
total soil-depleting acreage. Pay
ment will be made for keeping with
in soil-depleting acreage allotments
and for attaining soil-building goals
by carrying out approved practices.
On farms where no wheat or potato
allotments are established, payments
will be earned only by soil-building
practices.
In general, approved soil-building
practices will be similar to those
approved for 1898. Crop classified
ton will be practically the same as
in 1888, the principal exception be-
ing that land planted to oats, barley,
rye, or a mixture of these crops will
not be classified as soil-depleting
when such crops are used as nurse
crops for legumes or perennial
grasses of which good stand is
established in 1899, and the nurse
crop is cut green for hay and is
not harvested for grain.
Wheat acreage allOtments will be
established for all commercial wheat
farms. Agricultural Conservation
payments with respect to wheat and
wheat price adjustment pay
ments will be made for such
farms. On non-commercial wheat
farms, no payment will be made
with respect to wheat and deduc-
tions will be made from other pay
ments for any acreage of wheat
harvested for grain or hay in excess
of the usual wheat acreage, or 8
acres, whichever is larger.
Compliance ON commercial wheat
farms will be checked late this fall
on the basis of wheat seeded for all
purposes, including wheat seeded
for hay or pasture, green manure
and cover crop purposes. If the
planted acreage exceeds the allot-
ted acreage, no wheat price adjust
ment payment will be made and a
deduction will be made from the
conservation payment at the rate OF
SO cents per bushel of the normal
yield per acre times each acre in
excess of the wheat acreage allot-
ment.
The wheat conservation payment
will be reduced on farms where the
1899 seeded wheat acreage Is less
than 80 percent of the wheat allot-
ment established for such farms. The
allotment used in calculating the
payment for such farms will be re-
duced to 1876 percent times the acre
age of wheat seeded in 1888. There
fore, no conservation payment with
respect to wheat will be made to
farms not seeding wheat for harvest
in 1889. A deduction at the rate OF
$500 per acre will be made for
growing soil-depleting crops in ex-
cess of the total soil-depleting allot-
ment, except that il the excess Is
in wheat the deduction will be made
the rate specified above for wheat.
Payment for not exceeding the
wheat acreage allotment will be
made at the rate of 16 to Is cents
per bushel, plus price adjustment
payment of 10 to IL cents per bushel
Cor a total of 26 to 80 cents per
bushel) on the farms normal yield
per acre for each acre in the wheat
allotment.
Payment for reducing potatoes
on commercial potato farms will
amount to approximately cents
per bushel on the farms normal
yield per acre grown not in excess
of the potato allotment.
Payment for carrying out soil
building practices will be practically
the same as in 1ss2.