legal entity, and, wherever applicable, a State, a political subdivision of a State, or any agency thereof. E. Farmer means any person who as landlord, tenant, or sharecropper, participates in the operation of a farm. Section 9. AUTHORITY, AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS, AND APPLICABILITY A. Authority.-The 1946 program is authorized by the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended. B. Availability of funds.-The amount of assistance to any person under the 1946 program depends upon the appropriation the Congress may hereafter provide for this purpose. C. Applicability. The provisions of the 1946 program contained herein, except section 3 F and G (2), 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 be retained permanently under government ownership, including, 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. The program 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, the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, or by any other government agency designated by the Secretary; (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. C. D. WALKER, Director, Southern Region. TO GEORGIA FARMERS: This handbook has been prepared for your use. It contains all the conservation practices for which assistance is offered by the Georgia State Committee in 1946. It also tells you of the way you can obtain this assistance on your farm. The county committee has selected those practices for which assistance will be offered in your county. If you are a landlord, tenant, or sharecropper, you are eligible for conservation assistance if you: 1. Obtain the county committee's approval of assistance before beginning any practice which requires that prior approval of the committee must be obtained. 2. Carry out the conservation practice in accordance with the printed specifications in the handbook (see section 1 C). 3. Inform the county committee or county office within the time fixed by the county committee of the completed practice (see section 3 C). The county committee will advise you of the amount of assistance available for your farm as determined in accordance with section 1 A. STATE COMMITTEE: STEVEN E. STATHAM, Chairman A. BRITT BROWN ENOCH P. BOWEN, JR. ROBIE GRAY J. COLQUITT LOUGHRIDGE WALTER S. BROWN Section 1. CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE, PRACTICES, AND RATES OF ASSISTANCE A. Conservation assistance.-Farmers in Georgia are offered assistance under the 1946 Agricultural Conservation Program for carrying out conservation practices which meet approved specifications between January 1, 1946, and December 31, 1946. This assistance consists either of payments to farmers as reimbursement for a part of the cost of performing conservation practices or of Conservation materials and services furnished to farmers to be used in performing approved practices. The State committee will establish a formula to be used in all Counties for determining the minimum limit of assistance for each farm. Formulas approved by the State committee for establishing farm limits shall take into consideration the conservation needs of individual farms and provide for an equitable distribution of assistance, including materials and services. The total of the farm limits for all farms in the State shall not exceed the funds distributed to the State. Assistance earned within the farm limit will be paid for in full. Approved practices carried out on the farm in excess of the farm limit will be paid at the approved rate of assistance on a pro rata basis so as not to exceed the unobligated portion of the funds distributed to the State. B. Pooling agreements. Farmers in any local area may agree in writing, with the approval of the county and State committees, to perform designated amounts of conservation practices which are necessary to conserve or improve the agricultural resources of the community, and, where applicable, to combine all or any part of the farm limit approved for each of the farms for this purpose. Practices carried out under such an approved written agreement will, for payment purposes, be regarded as having been carried out on farms which the county committee determines, in accordance with section 3D, contributed in performing the practices. C. Conservation practices and rates of assistance.-County committees can approve assistance for only those approved conservation practices contained in the 1946 Georgia Conservation Handbook. Furthermore, in order to encourage the use of those conservation practices which are most needed on farms in the county, the count committee, with the approval of the State committee, will designa from the list of practices approved for the State or area, those pra tices for which assistance will be offered on all or designated group of farms in the county. To qualify for assistance, practices must meet the practice speci cations. For additional information regarding how practices shou be performed to qualify for assistance, the farmer should consult h committeeman or the county office. 1. Application of superphosphate: (a) 18 percent-61 cents per 100 pounds. Superphosphate applied in mixed fertilizers or straight materia] other than those listed above will be paid for on the basis of equi valent 20-percent material. SPECIFICATIONS: See specifications following practice 3. 2. Application of basic slag-44 cents per 100 pounds. SPECIFICATIONS: See specifications following practice 3. 3. Application of 60-percent potash (or its equivalent)—$1.75 p 100 pounds. SPECIFICATIONS FOR PRACTICES 1, 2, AND 3: The material must be evenly distributed and used on or in connection wi (1) permanent pastures; (2) new or old stands of kudzu and lespedeza serice (3) new seedings of biennial or perennial legumes and perennial grasses; new seedings of summer legumes, except soybeans for beans and all peanut (5) winter legumes or ryegrass; (6) volunteer lespedeza or volunteer crotalaria and (7) small grains seeded in the fall of 1945 and overseeded with lespede: in the spring of 1946. Where phosphate is applied to or in connection with small grains seeded in th fall of 1945 and followed with lespedeza seeded in the spring of 1946, the tot amount applied must not be less than 60 pounds of available phosphate per acr The application of material to summer legumes will not qualify if such crop followed by another crop planted prior to the fall of 1946. Basic slag may be applied to any broadcast summer legume. 4. Application of liming materials. The payment rates per to are listed below: Charlton County 3. Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Camden, Candler, Chatham, $3.4 Appling, Banks, Ben Hill, Berrien, Decatur, Echols, Effingham, Emanuel, Evans, Glynn, Habersham, Hart, Jackson, Jeff Davis, Liberty, McIntosh, Monroe, Montgomery, Pierce, Pulaski, Richmond, Screven, Taylor, Telfair, Toombs, Twiggs, Ware, Warren, Wheeler, Wilkes, and Wilkinson Counties Baldwin, Coffee, Columbia, Cook, Crawford, Early, Elbert, Franklin, Grady, Greene, Hancock, Jasper, Jones, Lowndes, McDuffie, Madison, |