tions to properly distribute grazing and showing that the most feasible development is a pipe line from a proven source of supply. The pipe shall be of standard quality not less than 1 inch in diameter and if more than 2-inch pipe is used, payment will be limited to that applicable to a 2-inch pipe. The pipe line must be protected from freezing and must be maintained on the location approved by the county committee. Good second hand pipe may be used but credit will be limited to 75 percent of the length of pipe installed. Rates of payment: a. 6 cents per foot of 1-inch pipe. b. 9 cents per foot of 11/4-inch pipe. d. 15 cents per foot of 2-inch pipe or larger. E-13. Construction of new large water storage tanks.-Payment will be made for providing new larger water storage or concrete, masonry, cement staves, redwood, commercially treated lumber or metal for the purpose of providing a reserve supply of livestock water and the better distribution of livestock on the range. This practice is not applicable at a spring or well paid for under this or previous programs unless the minimum storage required as a part of those developments has been installed and maintained. Rate of payment: 50 percent of cost of materials used not to exceed 30 cents per cubic foot of water storage capacity provided. E-14. Stock trails.-Payment will be made for the construction of trails to inaccessible areas of grass or water when such trails will promote a better distribution of livestock on the area. Trails shall not be less than 2 feet wide at any point, shall be properly drained to prevent water erosion and shall not be constructed with a grade steeper than 20 percent. Rate of payment: 50 percent of the cost not to exceed $2.00 per 100 linear feet. H. MISCELLANEOUS H-3. Clearing land for cropland or improved pasture land.Payment will be made for the removal of brush and trees or otherFise clearing the land and for leveling hummocks in the development of cropland which will be suitable for crop production without serious erosion hazard and is adjacent to or part of an already perated farm and for the clearing, ditching and making. other extensive improvements for developing improved pastures in acordance with a plan approved by the county committee. The productivity of the land cleared must justify the cost of the practice, and the land must be of a type that will not become an erosion azard. All plants shall be completely removed from the land. If the land is to be used as improved pasture, it shall be seeded in accordance with practice E-6 and payment may be made thereander. However, no credit will be allowed for seed or seeding cost Then computing the cost of carrying out this practice. Credit will not be given under this practice on any acreage where credit is given under practice D-15. Rate of payment: 50 percent of cost, not to exceed $10.00 per acre of land cleared. H-4. Weed eradication and control.-Specifications: On cropland, along ditch banks or on any land in a watershed which fur nishes water for irrigation the control and eradication of Canada thistle, Austrian field cress, hoary cress, perennial pepper cress, scarlet guara, wavy leaved guara, Russian knapweed, norning glory (bindweed), leafy spurge and perennial sow thistle, white horsenettle and on grazing land the eradication of St. Johnswort. This practice may be approved only on farms (1) where approved weed control measures are being carried out on all infested adjacent farms and contiguous land, including roadways and ditch banks or (2) the county committee determines there is no likelihood of reinfestation from adjacent farms or contiguous land. The State committee shall give approval of the weeds for control after obtaining the recommendation of the State Department of Agriculture as to the necessity and feasibility of control and the methods to be followed in achieving control. Payment may be made for the eradication or control of St. Johnswort only under rates b and c. Rates of payment: a. Approved chemicals, excluding borax-50 percent of cost of chemicals not to exceed 10 cents per pound. b. Borax, agricultural mesh-13 cents per pound. c. Borax, special concentrates undried-12 cents per pound. d. Periodic clean cultivation throughout the growing season$10.00 per acre. G. F. GEISSLER, Director, Western Region. U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1945-674727 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREWORD The Agricultural Conservation Program has been provided by Congress to assist farmers in carrying out approved practice that will maintain and improve soil and water resources so tha high agricultural production may be assured today and in th future. Under this program part of the costs of the conservation prac tices are defrayed by the Government and represent the Nation's interest in what happens to its basic resources. Much progress has been made under the Agricultural Con servation Programs of other years in improving soil and wate resources and promoting the use of farming methods that wil protect and maintain them. Production to meet the huge wa demands for food and fiber has taken a heavy toll of the fertility that had been stored up so there is need for an accelerated effor on the part of farmers to restore the soil resources that were sent to war. It is the responsibility and aim of the State committee to ob tain the maximum amount of conservation in the State with Colorado's share of the funds appropriated for the 1946 Agri cultural Conservation Program. The elected county and com munity farmer-committeemen share this responsibility. Farmers and their committeemen must work together to obtain for the Nation and our farms the maximum amount of conservation possible with the funds and facilities available to us for this work The Agricultural Conservation Program for Colorado as out lined in this 1946 Handbook does not include every conservation practice needed in the State. It does include the practices of mos general and immediate need. When practices become routine t a farmer's operation, it is the intent to eliminate such practice and add others which are needed and for which program assist ance is necessary in order to get farmers to carry them out Suggestions for improving and changing the program in way that will obtain more and better conservation are solicited fron farmers and committeemen each year. THE 1946 AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM FOR COLORADO Section 1. PURPOSE OF PROGRAM The broad purpose of the Agricultural Conservation Program is to assist farmers to maintain and improve the Nation's soil and water resources. It operates as a Government-farmer partership with both parties sharing the cost of practices that prerent soil destruction and restore fertility to depleted soil and Atain better utilization of water resources. Since the strength of the Nation depends directly on its soil resources, all its people are concerned with building and maintaining soil fertility. Payments may be earned under the program only by carrying out approved practices. These payments represent the national interest in the care of our basic resource. The returns from the cooperation of Government and farmer building and maintaining the soil and in promoting more ficient use of water are abundant production of food and fiber for ourselves and for future generations. These practices result in higher yields and at the same time maintain or increase the productive capacity of the soil. There is profit for both the individual farmer and the Nation in conservation farming. The necessity for maximum use of our soil resources to meet the tremendous demand for food and fiber resulting from the war as taken a heavy toll of the fertility which farmers had rearned to the soil under the earlier agricultural conservation programs. There is need to increase our soil building efforts to make p for the fertility which was sent to war and to build soil ferity on a basis of putting more of it on deposit each year than We use up to produce an abundance of food. Section 2. HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS Any agricultural producer in a county may participate in the agricultural conservation program by filing a Farm Plan which mist be approved by the county agricultural conservation committee. The approved Farm Plan will show the conservation practices which may be performed for credit and the total amount payment which may be earned under the program on the proleer's farm. A county committeeman or the producer's commanity committeeman will consult with the producer, advise am on how ct before spring operations and must be signed and filed with help him fill out the plan. The Farm Plan should be filled the county committee no later than May 1, 1946. a. Distribution of funds.-Each State will receive its share of funds appropriated for 1946 payments to producers who carry ut approved conservation practices. The State funds will be apportioned among the counties in the State on the basis of conin the program in all States exceed the funds available, payments ervation needs. If the total estimated earnings for participation |