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shall notify him of its decision in writing within 30 days after the submission of the appeal. If he is dissatisfied with the decision of the State committee, he may, within 15 days after its decision is forwarded to or made available to him, request the regional director to review the decision of the State committee.

Written notice of any decision rendered under this section by the county or State committee shall also be issued to each other producer on the farm who may be adversely affected by the decision.

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a. Field Service Branch means the Field Service Branch of the Production and Marketing Administration.

b. Regional Director means the Director of the Western Region of the Field Service Branch in charge of the agricultural conservation programs in the region.

c. State committee or State agricultural conservation committee means the group of persons designated within any State to assist in the administration of the agricultural conservation programs in that State.

d. County committee or county agricultural conservation committee means the group of persons elected within any county to assist in the administration of the agricultural conservation programs in that county.

e. Western Region means the area included in the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

f. Farm means all adjacent or nearby farm or range land under the same ownership which is operated by one person, including also (1) any other adjacent or nearby farm or range land which the county committee, in accordance with instructions issued by the Field Service Branch, determines is operated by the same person as part of the same unit in producing range livestock or with respect to the rotation of crops and with workstock, farm machinery, and labor substantially separate from that for any other lands; and (2) any field-rented tract (whether operated by the same or another person) which, together with any other land included in the farm, constitutes a unit with respect to the rotation of crops.

A farm shall be regarded as located in the county in which the principal dwelling is situated, or if there is no dwelling thereon it shall be regarded as located in the county in which the major portion of the farm is located.

g. Person means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, estate, or trust, or other business enterprise or other legal entity, and wherever applicable, a State, a political subdi- . vision of a State, or any agency thereof.

h. Producer means any person who as landlord, tenant or sharecropper, participates in the operation of a farm.

i. Cropland means farmland which in 1945 was tilled or was in regular rotation, including any land broken out in 1946 which the county committee determines is suitable to the continuing cultivation of crops but excluding any land which constitutes or will constitute, if such tillage is continued, a wind erosion hazard to the community and excluding also any land in commercial orchards.

j. Commercial orchards means the acreage on the farm in planted or cultivated fruit trees, nut trees, vineyards, hops, or bush fruits (excluding nonbearing orchards and vineyards), from which the major portion of the production is normally sold.

Section 12. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AND APPLICABILITY

a. Availability of funds.-The provisions of the 1946 program are necessarily subject to such legislation affecting the program as the Congress of the United States may hereafter enact; the making of the payments herein provided is contingent upon such appropriation as the Congress may hereafter provide for such purpose; and the amounts of such payments will necessarily be within the limits finally determined by such appropriation.

b. Applicability.-The 1946 program, as outlined in this Handbook, is applicable to (1) privately-owned lands; (2) lands owned by a State or political subdivision or agency thereof; (3) lands owned by corporations which are partly owned by the United States, such as Federal Land Banks and Production Credit Associations; (4) lands temporarily owned by the United States or a corporation wholly owned by it, which were not acquired or reserved for conservation purposes including lands administered by the Farm Security Administration, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, or the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, or by any other Government agency designated by the Field Service Branch; (5) any cropland farmed by private persons which is owned by the United States or a corporation wholly owned by it, and (6) Indian lands except that where grazing operations are carried out on Indian lands administered by the Department of the Interior, such lands are within the scope of the program only if covered by a written agreement approved by the Department of the Interior giving the operator an interest in the grazing and forage growing on the land and a right to occupy the land in order to carry out the grazing operations.

Except for section 6, the provisions of the 1946 program contained herein are not applicable to (1) Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Alaska; (2) any department or bureau of the United States Government or any corporation wholly owned by the United States; and (3) grazing lands owned by the United States which were acquired or reserved for conservation purposes or which are to

ing, but not limited to, grazing lands administered under the Taylor Grazing Act or by the Forest Service or the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture or by the Bureau of Biological Survey of the United States Department of the Interior.

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Prior approval of the county committee is required for all practices. Requests for approval of practices shall be made on the Farm Plan, Form WR 46-6, provided for this purpose.

In the following listing of conservation practices it will be noted that there are omissions in the numerical sequence of the isting. Numbers that have been omitted cover practices which are either not applicable to Colorado or have been omitted from the 1946 program.

A. APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS AND OTHER MATERIALS

A-2. Phosphate.-APPLICABILITY.-Phosphate when used on established pasture; hay crops; cover crops in orchards; cover crops on land on which potatoes or vegetables are grown in 1946; summer legumes grown for cover crops, hay, or harvested for seed for planting; and new seedings of legumes and grasses with or without nurse crops or when mixed with barnyard manure. Rates of payment:

a. Treble superphosphate-$0.03 per pound of available P2O5. b. Normal superphosphate-$0.045 per pound of available P2O5.

Phosphate to qualify when mixed with barnyard manure must be added to manure in feed lots, on dropping boards, or on barn floors, as the manure accumulates, and applied to the land during the program year. Rock phosphate and basic slag are not eligible.

A-3. Mixed Fertilizers.-APPLICABILITY.-Mixed fertilizers Till qualify when applied to the crops specified for phosphate nder practice A-2. Rates of payment:

a. $0.045 per pound of available P2O5. b. $0.035 per pound of available K2O.

A-4. Agricultural Sulphur.-APPLICABILITY.-When applied as a soil amendment to irrigated or sub-irrigated land. Not applicable when used as a dust or a spray to growing crops. Rate of payment: $0.02 per pound of available sulphur.

Payment will be allowed only on lands requiring sulphur as determined by the county committee, based on experimental evidence in the local area.

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A-6. Mulching.-APPLICABILITY.-On orchards, or on land on which potatoes or vegetables are grown

in 1946. Rates of payment:

a. $3.50 per ton on orchard or strawberry land. b. $1.50 per ton on potato or vegetable land.

Payment will be made for each ton of air-dry straw, including bean straw, when applied to completely cover the ground. Straw from straw stacks trampled 'by livestock, or straw in barnyard manure will not qualify. Measurements, weights, or other evidence of tonnage acceptable to the county committee will be required. Mulch material applied in the spring must remain on the land during the summer and mulch material applied in the fall must remain on the land during the winter.

B. GREEN MANURE AND COVER CROPS

B-1. Winter Legumes.-APPLICABILITY.-Irrigated cropland and orchard land in the counties of Bent, Crowley, Delta, Fremont, Garfield, Mesa, Montrose, Otero, Prowers, and Pueblo. Rate of payment: $2.25 per acre.

Payment will be made for a good stand and a good growth of Austrian winter peas seeded in the fall of 1945 and plowed or disked under as a green manure crop in 1946. Rate and method of seeding will be established by the county committee and shall be in accordance with good cultural practices approved for the area. It is recommended that a minimum of 60 pounds per acre be seeded.

B-3. Cover Crop.-APPLICABILITY.-Cropland and orchard land. Rate of payment: $1.50 per acre.

Payment will be made only for the crops of millet, sorghums, sudan grass, broom corn, and sweet clover seeded in 1946, of which a good stand and a good growth is left on the land during the winter to prevent wind or water erosion. Prior approval of the county committee must be obtained before July 1, 1946. This practice will be disqualified if the crops are harvested for grain or hay or are pastured excessively.

APPLICABILITY.

B-4. Winter cover grains. Unprotected cropland and orchard land. Rate of payment: $1.50 per acre. Payment will be made for establishing, on land subject to wind and water erosion, a stand of winter grains, during the winter of 1945-46. The stand of winter grains must be sufficient to prevent erosion. The winter grain crop shall not be harvested for grain or hay. On cropland it must be turned under and followed by a planted crop to be harvested in 1946.

B-5. Clover turned under in the fall.-APPLICABILITY.—Irrigated cropland and orchard land. Rate of payment: $1.50 per

acre.

Payment will be made for a good stand and a good growth of red, alsike, or crimson clover turned under in the fall. If turned under on land subject to erosion, this practice will qualify only if followed by a fall sown crop.

B-6. Sweet clover as green manure.-APPLICABILITY.—Irrigated cropland and orchard land. Rate of payment: $1.50 per

acre.

Payment will be made for turning under a good stand and a

spring or early fall on irrigated cropland or orchard land. If turned under in the fall on land subject to erosion, it must be followed by a fall sown crop. Credit will not be given for this practice if credit was given under practice B-3 in 1945.

C. HARVESTING OF GRASS AND LEGUME SEEDS

C-1. Harvesting grass and legume seeds.-APPLICABILITY.— Cropland, range land and meadowland. Rate of payment: $3.50 per acre not to exceed $87.50 per ACP farm.

Payment will be made to producers for harvesting by mechanical means, viable seed produced in 1946 of the following: Alfalfa, alsike and red clover. The harvested area must be free

of primary noxious weeds as designated by State seed laws.

D. EROSION CONTROL AND WATER CONSERVATION PRACTICES D-1. Terracing.-APPLICABILITY.-Farmland. Rates of payment:

a. 80 cents per hundred linear feet for a terrace having an average cross section of at least 6 but less than 8 square feet.

b. $1.20 per hundred linear feet for a terrace having an average cross section of at least 8 square feet but less than 11 square feet.

c. $1.50 per hundred linear feet for a terrace having an average cross section of at least 11 but less than 13.5 square feet.

d. $2.00 per hundred linear feet for a terrace having an average cross section of 13.5 square feet or more.

The cross section will be computed on that part of the settled fill made above the original ground level. No cross section in excess of the minimum specifications approved by the county committee will be approved for payment. A progressive development plan may be approved which will provide for the completion of a terracing project on large fields or areas over a period of years commensurate with the equipment and funds available each year. This practice is applicable only on land having a slope in excess of one-half of one percent. To qualify for payment under this practice, terraces must be built with a minimum width of 15 feet and a minimum height of 12 inches after settlement, except that the county committee may require a greater height where necessary, in accordance with the following specifications:

Spacing. Terraces shall be so spaced that the vertical distance between terraces is not greater than 7 feet and the horizontal distance between terraces is not greater than 200 feet.

Outlets.-Terrace outlets are not required on level terraces if the ends are closed. For graded terraces, outlets must be placed so that the water will run out on grass sod, or other area where washing will not occur.

Terraces must be maintained by farming on the approximate contour between terraces. Lister furrows must not be run across the terraces. Before approval is given by the county committee any technical assistance that may be available should be obtained.

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