ALABAMA AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION COMMITTEE: W. B. CRAWLEY, Chairman, Pike County L. S. FLUKER, Member, Sumter County H. H. WHITTLE, Member, Calhoun County W. M. NANCE, Member, Madison County P. O. DAVIS, Director of Extension, Ex-officio Member Forestry A. Production practice allowance.. B. Division of practice payments- SEC. 3. PRODUCTION ADJUSTMENT PAYMENT: A. Production adjustment allowance. B. Deduction for underplanting war crops. SEC. 4. FULL PRODUCTION ADJUSTMENT PAYMENTS MADE ONLY ON OPER- SEC. 5. ALLOTMENTS, YIELDS, AND ACREAGE PLANTED TO SPECIAL CROPS: B. Definition of acreage planted. C. Strip cropping, interplanting, and double cropping.. SEC. 6. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO PAYMENTS: A. $10,000 payment limitation_ B. Association expense deduction_ C. Increase in small payments--- DEPOSITED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA JUL 13 '43 7-13-43 ALABAMA HANDBOOK 1943 Agricultural Conservation Program Section 1. PRODUCTION PRACTICES AND CONSERVATION MATERIALS AND SERVICES A. Production practice allowance. The production practice allowance is the maximum amount of payment that may be made for carrying out production practices on the farm. The production practice allowance for any farm in Alabama shall be the sum of the following: (1) $1 per acre of cropland on the farm. (2) 25 cents per acre of fenced noncrop open pasture land on the farm in 1942. (3) $1.50 per acre of commercial orchards (excluding tung orchards) on the farm in 1942. (4) The smaller of $5 per acre of tung orchards (excluding old nonbearing orchards) or the amount earned by carrying out in tung orchards production practices designated by the Director of the Southern Division and approved by the AAA. For any farm with respect to which the sum of the production adjustment allowance and the production practice allowance is less than $20, the production practice allowance shall be increased by the amount of the difference. B. Division of practice payments.-The payment earned in carrying out production practices shall be paid to the landlord, tenant, or sharecropper who carries out the practices. If more than one such person contributes to carrying out production practices on the farm during the 1943 program year, the payment shall be divided in the proportion that the county committee determines the persons contributed to carrying out the practices on the farm. In making this determination, the county committee shall take into consideration the value of the labor, equipment, and material contributed by each person toward carrying out each production practice on a particular acreage. It will be assumed that each person contributed equally, unless it is determined by the county committee that their contributions were not equal. In no case will the furnishing of land be considered a contribution. C. Deduction for failure to maintain practices carried out under previous programs.—Where the county committee determines that any terrace constructed, water development established, or pasture established, under any previous agricultural conservation program, is not maintained in accordance with good farming practices; that any seeding of perennial legumes or grasses is destroyed contrary to good farming practices; or that the effectiveness of any soil-building practice carried out under any previous program is destroyed during the 1943 program year contrary to good farming practices, a deduction shall be made equal to the payment that would be made under the 1943 program for a similar amount of such practice. This is a personal deduction and shall be made from any payment due the person responsible therefor with respect to the same or any other farm. Ď. Production practices.-The production practices are those which are most needed in order to conserve and improve soil fertility, improve pasture land, prevent wind and water erosion, promote conservation and better utilization of water, and increase the production of agricultural commodities required in the war effort. Assistance will be available through the production practice allowance for carrying out the following practices during the program year December 1, 1942, through August 31, 1943. To qualify for payment, each practice must be carried out in accordance with the specifications for that practice and be in keeping with good farming practices for the locality. No payment will be made for any practice for which one-half or more of the total cost is represented by labor, seed, or other materials furnished by any State or Federal agency other than the AAA. If some of the cost but less than one-half of the total cost is represented by such items, payment shall be made for one-half of such practice. Labor, seed, and materials furnished to a State or political subdivision of a State or an agency thereof by an agency of the same State shall not be deemed to have been furnished by any State agency within the meaning of this paragraph. Equipment furnished by the Soil Conservation Service shall not be considered to have been furnished by a State or Federal agency. 1. Application of the following materials: (a) Phosphate 4 cents per pound of available phosphate (P2O5). (b) Basic slag-$7 per ton. (c) Potash-3 cents per pound of available potash (K2O). SPECIFICATIONS: (1) The material must be evenly distributed and must be applied only to or in connection with a full seeding of biennial or perennial legumes, permanent pastures, summer legumes solid seeded (except soybeans for oil and peanuts), and to mixtures of small grains and winter legumes if the mixture contains at least 25 percent by weight of winter legumes. (2) For winter legumes or mixtures of winter legumes and small grain, these materials should be applied at or before time of seeding. (3) In the case of lespedeza or crotalaria seeded with fall-seeded small grain, the material must be applied between March 15 and June 15, 1943. (4) The materials may be applied to volunteer crotalaria or volunteer lespedeza if applied between March 1 and June 15. (5) Payment will not be made for applying these materials to summer legumes if followed by a crop planted prior to fall of 1943. (6) The crops to which the material is applied must not be seeded or grown with an intertilled crop. Winter legumes seeded in row-crop middles are considered grown alone. (7) In the case of basic slag, 80 percent must pass through a 100-mesh sieve. 2. Application of ground limestone-$2.50 per ton. SPECIFICATIONS: The material must be evenly distributed. The above rate is based on materials with 90-percent calcium carbonate equivalent. If materials of lower grade are used, sufficient additional quantities must be applied to furnish calcium carbonate equivalent thereto. The materials below are considered equivalent to 1 ton of ground limestone: |