(For use by State Committeemen, County Committeemen, Community Committeemen, Extension Workers, and Farm Leaders) CONTENTS Part I. GENERAL SEC. 1. Authority, availability of funds, and applicability (a) Authority. (b) Availability of funds.. (c) Applicability. Page 3 3 4 SEC. 2. Definitions.. 5577C44 Part II. 1939 AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM SEC. 3. National and State acreage allotments and goals_---(a) National goals-- (b) National and State acreage allotments and restoration SEC. 4. County acreage allotments and goals._ (a) Total soil-depleting acreage allotment.. (b) Cotton allotment.. (h) Restoration land goal. (d) Wheat allotment.. (c) Corn allotment.. (d) Wheat allotment.. (e) Tobacco allotment. (f) Potato allotment_ (g) Peanut allotment.. (i) Soil-building goal__ SEC. 5. Farm acreage allotments and goals.. (a) Total soil-depleting acreage allotment_ (b) Cotton allotment.. (c) Corn allotment.. (e) Tobacco allotment. (f) Potato allotment.. (g) Peanut allotment. (h) Rice allotment.. (i) Commercial vegetable allotment_ (j) Usual acreage of wheat.--. (k) Usual acreage of corn for grain. 126067-39- -1 SEC. 6. Normal yields and productivity indexes- (a) Normal yields of special soil-depleting crops. SEC. 7. Soil-building practices_ Practice A (1). Application of superphosphate- Practice A (5). Practice A (7). Practice A (8). Practice A (9). Practice A (10). Practice A (11). Practice A (12). Application of (one ton) dry weight straw or Application of (not less than two tons) dry Natural reseeding of noncrop open pasture Construction of standard terrace. Practice A (13). Construction of concrete or rubble masonry dams 17 Practice A (14). Construction of ditches.. 18 Practice F (3). Practice G (2). Practice G (3). Practice H (3). Practice H (4). Practice K (1). Application of sand on cranberry bogs. Renovation of perennial legumes and grasses. Contour listing, subsoiling, or furrowing non- Practice H (5). Protecting summer-fallowed acreage. SEC. 8. Payment for full performance. Contour seeding of small-grain crops. 19 20 23 23 (k) Payments in connection with soil-building practices_ SEC. 9. Payments for partial performance. 23 DEPOSITED BY THE NITED STATES OF AMERICA MOB! 39 AUTHORITY, AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS, AND APPLICABILITY SEC. 10. Division of payments and deductions- (a) Payments and deductions in connection with acreage SEC. 11. Increase in small payments-- (a) Other farms in the same county. SEC. 14. Deduction for association expenses.. (a) Payment restricted to effectuation of purposes of the 28 (b) Payment computed and made without regard to claims. 28 29 29 29 30 30 (d) Assignments. ___ (e) Excess cotton acreage. (f) Use of soil-conserving crops for market SEC. 17. Application for payment_ (a) Persons eligible to file applications.. (b) Time and manner of filing application and information (c) Applications for other farms__ SEC. 18. Appeals. SEC. 19. State and regional bulletins, instructions, and forms- Part III. 1939 RANGE CONSERVATION PROGRAM 30 30 30 31 SEC. 1. Authority, availability of funds and applicability. SEC. 5. Conditions of payment.. SEC. 6. Changes in leasing arrangements and other devices. 32 32 32 38 38 39 SEC. 10. Increase in small payments. SEC. 12. Deductions for association expenses. SEC. 7. Eligibility for payment.. SEC. 8. Payment restricted to effectuation of the purposes of the program_ SEC. 9. Payments computed and made without regard to claims... SEC. 11. Payments limited to $10,000. 40 40 41 41 41 41 SEC. 13. Assignments... 41 SEC. 14. Establishment of grazing capacities. 41 SEC. 15. Appeals.---. 42 SEC. 16. State and regional bulletins, instructions and forms. 42 Part I. GENERAL Section 1. AUTHORITY, AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS, AND APPLICABILITY (a) Authority. Pursuant to the provisions of the 1939 Agricultural Conservation Program Bulletin, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture on November 10, 1938 (ACP-1939), as amended, and the provisions of the 1939 Range Conservation Program Bulletin issued by the Secretary of Agriculture on November 10, 1938, and the authority vested thereby in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, payments and grants of aid will be made for participation in the State of Washington in the 1939 Agricultural Conservation Program and the 1939 Range Conservation Program in accordance with the provisions of this handbook and such modifications thereof or other provisions as may hereafter be made. This handbook includes all the provisions of said 1939 Agricultural Conservation Program Bulletin, as amended, and of said 1939 Range Conservation Program Bulletin which are applicable in the State of Washington, together with certain of the determinations authorized therein to be made by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration or the Director of the Western Division. The provisions of such National Bulletins which do not apply to this State have not been included herein and the words "not applicable" appear in lieu thereof. (b) Availability of funds. The provisions of the 1939 Agricultural and Range Conservation Programs are necessarily subject to such legislation affecting said programs as the Congress of the United States may hereafter enact; the making of the payments and grants of aid herein provided are contingent upon such appropriation as the Congress may hereafter provide for such purpose; and the amounts of such payments and grants of aid will necessarily be within the limits finally determined by such appropriation, the apportionment of such appropriation under the provisions of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, and the extent of national participation. As an adjustment for participation the rates of payment and deduction with respect to any commodity or item of payment may be increased or decreased from the rates set forth herein by as much as 10 percent. (c) Applicability. The provisions of the 1939 Agricultural Conservation Program and of the 1939 Range Conservation Program are not applicable in the State of Washington to public domain of the United States, including land owned by the United States and administered under the Taylor Grazing Act or by the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, and other lands in which the beneficial ownership is in the United States. In any county for which a special agricultural or range conservation program under section 8 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act is approved for 1939 by the Secretary, the 1939 Agricultural Conservation Program or the 1939 Range Conservation Program, as the case may be, shall not be applicable. Section 2. DEFINITIONS For the purpose of the 1939 Agricultural Conservation or Range Conservation Programs unless the context otherwise requires: (a) Officials. (1) SECRETARY means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. (2) ADMINISTRATOR means the Administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. (3) REGIONAL DIRECTOR means the Director of the Western Division of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in charge of the Agricultural Conservation and Range Conservation programs in the region. (4) STATE COMMITTEE means the group of persons designated within the State to assist in the administration of the Agricultural Conservation and Range Conservation programs in the State. (5) COUNTY COMMITTEE means the group of persons elected within any county to assist in the administration of the Agricultural Conservation and Range Conservation programs in such county. (b) Areas. (1), (2), (3), and (4) Not applicable. (5) WESTERN REGION means the area included in the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. (6) Not applicable. (7) AREA B means all counties in the State. (8) and (9) Not applicable. (10) COMMERCIAL POTATO-PRODUCING AREA means the counties of Benton, Clark, Kittitas, Snohomish, Spokane, and Yakima. (11) COMMERCIAL VEGETABLE-PRODUCING AREA means the counties of Benton, Clarke, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, King, Kitsap, Klickitat, Island, Lewis, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, Spokane, Thurston, Walla Walla, Whatcom, and Yakima. (12) and (13) Not applicable. (c) Farms. (1) FARM means all adjacent or nearby farm land under the same ownership which is operated by one person, including also (i) Any other adjacent or nearby farm land operated by the same person (as part of the same unit with respect to the rotation of crops and with workstock, farm machinery, and labor substantially separate from that for any other land), the inclusion of which is requested or agreed to, within the time and in the manner specified by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, by the operator and all the owners who are entitled to share in the proceeds of the crops on any of the land to be included in the farm and (ii) Any field-rented tract (whether operated by the same or another person) which, together with any other land included in the farm, constitutes a unit with respect to the rotation of crops: Provided, That land not under the same ownership shall be included in the same farm only if the county committee determines that— (aa) There is one crop rotation system on the entire area of land; (bb) The yields and productivity of the different ownerships do not vary substantially; (cc) The combination is not being made for the purpose of increasing acreage allotments or primarily for the purpose of effecting compliance; and (dd) The several ownership tracts constitute a farming unit for the operator and will be regarded in the community as a farm in 1939. A farm shall be regarded as located in the county or administrative area, as the case may be, in which the principal dwelling is situated, or if there is no dwelling thereon, it shall be regarded as located in the county or administrative area, as the case may be, in which the major portion of the farm is located. (2) Not applicable. (3) NONWHEAT-ALLOTMENT FARM means (a) a farm for which no wheat acreage allotment is determined or (b) a farm for which a wheat acreage allotment of 8 acres or less is determined and the persons having an interest in the wheat planted on the farm elect, in accordance with instructions issued by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, to have such farm considered as a nonwheat-allotment farm. (4) and (5) Not applicable. (d) Crops and land uses. (1) and (2) Not applicable. (3) ACREAGE PLANTED TO WHEAT means (1) any acreage of land devoted to seeded wheat (except when such crop is seeded in a mixture |