Payment will be made for growing on cropland or in orchards a good stand and a good growth of rye, vetch, or crimson clover or mixtures of these which is left on the land during the winter of 1945-46. No payment will be made if harvested for hay or grain.

Lime, superphosphate, and potash pave the way for Ladino pasture. This thick sward is still vigorous after having been pastured several seasons. In addition, it has yielded several crops of hay. Ladino is a real soil builder

It is recommended that the following amounts of seed be used per acre:

Rye-12 to 2 bushels per acre.

Vetch-30 pounds per acre if seeded alone.

Vetch and rye mixture-20 pounds vetch and 1 bushel rye per acre.
Crimson clover-20 pounds per acre.

PRACTICE NO. 6.-Wheat and Sweetclover-Winter Cover Crop:
Rate of payment: $1.50 per acre.

Payment will be made for growing on cropland or in orchards a good stand and good growth of sweetclover or wheat which is left on the land during the winter of 1945-46. Sweetclover will qualify only if the land on which it is grown is tilled in 1946. No payment will be made if harvested for hay or grain.

PRACTICE No. 7.-Summer Cover Crop:

Rate of payment: $1.50 per acre.

Payment will be made for growing during the summer of 1946 a good growth and a good stand on cropland or in orchards of summer legumes, millet, sudan grass or oats, or mixtures of these which are left on the land during the winter or followed by a fall sown crop. No payment will be made if harvested for hay or grain. PRACTICE No. 8.-Seeding Poultry Range:

Rate of payment: $3 per acre.

Payment will be made for the seeding of a poultry range on a properly prepared seed bed. This practice will be approved for

Soil fertility goes up and the feed bill goes down when pullets are grown on a good legume range. Proper seed mixture with recommended amounts of lime and fertilizer resulted in this range which provides a good supply of forage for this healthy flock.

payment only where satisfactory amounts of lime and fertilizer are applied where needed. It is recommended that one of the following seed mixtures be used:

Heavy soils per acre:

Perennial ryegrass-6 pounds.
Timothy-5 pounds.
Alsike 5 pounds.
Ladino-2 pounds.

Light soils per acre:

Perennial ryegrass-6 pounds.

Timothy-3 pounds.

Red Top-3 pounds.
Alsike 4 pounds.
Alfalfa-6 pounds.

PRACTICE NO. 9.-Sanding Cranberry Bogs:

Rate of payment: $5 per acre.

The application of sand, free from stones and loam, to a depth of at least one-half inch on fruiting cranberry bogs to prevent soil deterioration and decline in the productive capacity of the land.

Payment will be made for applying air-dried hay, straw, or salt hay to commercial orchards, vineyards, small fruits, or vegetable land as a mulch. All materials produced on the land during 1946 from grasses, legumes, green-manure crops, as well as the mulching material, are to be left on the land. It is recommended that at least 1 ton of air-dried straw or its equivalent be used per acre. Mulching materials that are not air-dried will be paid for on an air-dried basis.

Practices No. 11 through 15 should be carried out in accordance with recommendations of the Soil Conservation Service or the Agricultural Extension Service.

PRACTICE NO. 11.-Subsoiling:

Rate of payment: $2.25 per acre.

Payment will be made for subsoiling to a depth which effectively shatters the hard pan or plow sole at intervals not exceeding 4 feet.

PRACTICE No. 12.-Contour Strip Farming:

Rate of payment: $2.50 per acre.

Payment will be made for growing alternating strips of closegrown crops or sod and intertilled crops on the contour. At least 25 percent of the area must be in sod strips in order to qualify. Contour lines must be established and followed.

PRACTICE No. 13.-Contour Cultivation of Intertilled Crops:

Rate of payment: $1.50 per acre.

Payment will be made for the cultivation of intertilled crops on the contour. Contour lines must be established and followed.

PRACTICE NO. 14.-Diversion Ditches:

Rate of payment: $2.25 per hundred linear feet.

Payment will be made for constructing diversion ditches having an average cross section of at least 10 square feet. Payment will not be made unless the waterway is seeded or sodded and proper outlets provided.

PRACTICE NO. 15.-Sod Waterways:

Rate of payment: 75 cents per 1,000 square feet.

Payment will be made for establishing permanent sod waterways on cropland which is used for an intertilled crop in 1946, or in cultivated orchards, or on any cropland where it is necessary to complete the establishment of a permanent vegetative cover in a waterway channel, or terrace or diversion outlet. Payment will not be made unless the waterway has an average width of 10 feet or more and the channel is sufficiently wide at all points to carry all water diverted into it under conditions of maximum probable rainfall. Payment will not be allowed for this practice if carried out as part of Practice No. 14.

ADJUSTMENT IN PAYMENTS

Payments under the 1946 Agricultural Conservation Program are subject to the appropriation hereafter provided for this purpose by the Congress.

A. W. MANCHESTER,
Director,

Northeast Region, Field
Service Branch, Produc-
tion and Marketing Ad-
ministration, Washington
25, D. C.

State AAA Committee:

JACOB A. BLAKESLEE,
Chairman,

CHARLES A. COLLINS,
JAMES C. EWART,
GEORGE A. STEVENS,

W. H. MARTIN, Director of
Extension,

H. EARL PROPST, Executive
Assistant to the State Com-
mittee.

Address of State Office:
College Farm,

New Brunswick, N. J.