Services and offices:

Conservation Reserve, Soil Bank Programs-Basis of estimate, fiscal years 1957, 1958, and 1959

mitted acreage, inspection
of acreage prior to signup,
at $12.75 per farm..
Computation of farm data
and signup activities, in-
cluding collect crop his-
tory, make offer to farmer,
execution and signing con-
tract, at $3.76 in 1957, $4.30
in 1958, and $4.32 in 1959.
Measuring acreage and de-
termining performance on
conservation-reserve farms
and checking compliance
(including permitted acre-
age), at $13.85 per farm in
1957, $14.26 in 1958, and
$14.69 in 1959.
Reinspection and determin-
ing compliance of conser-
vation-reserve plots and
permitted acreage, at $6
in 1958, and $6.10 in 1959-
Preparing applications for
conservation-practice pay-
ments, including CMS.
At 75 cents each..
Violations, terminations and
refunds, at $15 each in
1957, $15.50 in 1958, and
$15.75 in 1959..
Maintaining and checking
acreage records necessary
to protect and establish
future allotments for basic
commodities, maintaining
county fund allocation and
acreage control records,
at 25 cents each.
Preparing rental-payment
form, conservation-reserve
and conservation-reserve
sight drafts, at 75 cents
each.

Of this amount $940,197 was unobligated and will be returned to CCC in fiscal year 1958.

Mr. WHITTEN. On page 156 of the justifications you would transfer from this fund to national ASC officers $2,500,000, and $13.5 million to ASC county officers to handle 89,000 contracts. It seems your transfers are out of proportion to your workload.

Mr. BEACH. This $16 million includes not only the handling of contracts signed up on 1956 and 1957 programs, but also the signups on the 1958 program, which is not included in the 89,000 contracts. Mr. WHITTEN. It still looks large to me.

Mr. Natcher.

PARTICIPATION IN CONSERVATION RESERVE

Mr. NATCHER. How many of our States are participating in the conservation reserve action of the soil bank?

Mr. McLAIN. You mean for 1957 or 1958 or all together?

Mr. NATCHER. Let us take it for 1957. How many of them are participating, without enumerating the States; just the number? Mr. MCLAIN. I think all except 1 or 2.

Mr. BEACH. I think they all are. One is for a very small amount. Mr. NATCHER. Is that Rhode Island?

Mr. BEACH. That is Nevada.

Mr. HAMILTON. Rhode Island is not in, either.

Mr. NATCHER. Rhode Island is not in this year, either, is it?

Mr. HAMILTON. That is right. Rhode Island is not in and Nevada is not in, currently.

Mr. NATCHER. Nevada is not in this year and was not in 1957. Is that right?

Mr. BEACH. It is in for a very small amount in 1957; one contract. Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Secretary, the chart that you inserted in the record a few minutes ago, is that a chart of the States for the 1957 program?

Mr. McLAIN. This is the relationship of 1958 signups to 1957 signups for the 20 largest States.

Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Chairman, with your permission, I believe we ought to have a chart inserted in the record at this point showing all of the States and the participation in 1957 and the participation up to the present time in 1958 for the conservation reserve.

Mr. WHITTEN. I think it should be included.

Mr. MCLAIN. All right.

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