The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-06-12
AGRICULTURAL
CONSERVATION
PROGRAM OUT
Farmers in Alaska, 200 OF
300, May Qualify TO
Receive Payments

The 1899 Agricultural Conserva-
ton Program for Alaska has been
received at the University of Alaska
Extension Service and copies of the
information bulletin are being mail
ed TO farmers throughout the Ter
Iritory. Director L. t. Oldroyd is
of the opinion that between two
and three hundred farmers in the
Territory will be able to qualify
under the 1889 program and Will
receive payments for the practice
of soil building methods.
Payments will be made at the
rate of 81 per unit under the fol-
lowing provisions:
% Planting land entirely to for
est trees or windbreak trees. Each
acre will be counted as five units.
CD Planting forest trees on the
sides or crests of gulcheS or on
erosion scars. Each so trees will
| be counted as one unit.
90 Co,hstructing a sufficient
amount of continuous terrace to
give adequate protection against
erosion, not including more than
300 feet of terrace per acre and not
including Mangum type terraces on
LAND of 20 per cent or more slope
Each 100 feet of terrace will be
counted as one unit.
Ditching
"a Constructing permanent ditch
| ing, on land Of per cent or more
average slope, with suitable outlets
and the slope of bitches not exceed
ing per cent, for the diversion Of
surface water to prevent soil wash
ing, not including any temporary
field ditching nor any ditching pri-
marily for purposes of irrigation
sub-surface drainage, or under
drainage. or primarily for any pur-
pose other than the prevention OF
4 soil washing. When constructed or
Hand where the topography, stonl-
ness. or size of fields requires that
| the ditching be constructed entirely
by hand labor, each $50 linear feet
4 of ditching will be counted as one
unit: when constructed on other
land. each 500 linear feet of ditch
ing will be counted as one unit.
60 Filling shallow gullies, moi
more than 4 feet deep, when &C
companied by the construction OF
adequate check dams properly
spaced along the gully to prevent
washing out. Each cubic yards
of fill or construction will be count
ed as one unit.
Check Dams
4 co Constructing and maintaining
check dams in gullies. Each II
linear feet of dams constructed viii
be counted as one unit.
/ Cd Establishing good stand CT
4 erosion resistant perennial grasses
in gullies. Each 1000 square fee
will be counted as one unit.
! 90 Flowing (unless ploWed II
1888 in preparation for planting il
{. 1880, planting, and cultivating lane
of per cent or more slope alont
lines of less than 2 per cent slope
In the case of land planted u
truck crops, each acre will b.
counted as two units; in the cas-
of land planted to other crops
each two acres will be counted a
one unit.
90 Listing land along contou
lines for following or for planting
protective nondepleting cover crops
Each acres will be counted as on
unit.
Strip Cropping
QO Strip cropping land of 2 pc
cent or more slope along contou
lines with protective nondepletinI
cover crops or perennial varieties o
crops which will prevent soil wash
ling. Each acre will be counted a
one unit.
I'D Interplanting protective non
depicting cover crops with othe
) crops Each acre will be counted a.
two units. (This practice is inter
preted to include the planting o
oats and peas for hay).
(12) Planting protective monde
pleting cover crops in rotation will
other crops Each acre will b.
lcounted as three units.
] l2l PloN6np Under CrOpS fOl