than the county committee, with the approval of the State committee, finds it necessary for destruction of the plant.

Performance under this practice shall qualify only when completed prior to seed maturity and the plants shall be clipped low enough to destroy all bloom or seed.

Fire Guards

Practice (t)-Fire guards.-5 cents per 100 linear feet, for the establishment on range land of fire guards not less than 10 feet in width by plowing furrows or otherwise exposing the mineral soil. Payment will not be made if any fire guard is used in connection with controlled burning within the ranching unit.

RANGE-BUILDING ALLOWANCE

(a) Acreage and grazing capacity. The range-building allowance shall be 2 cents per acre of range land in the ranching unit plus $1 times the grazing capacity of the range land. The grazing capacity item shall not be calculated on more than one animal unit for each 10 acres of range land in the ranching unit, and the acreage item shall not be calculated on more than 60 acres for each animal unit of grazing capacity established for the ranching unit. The amount computed under this paragraph shall not be less than 10 cents times the number of such acres or 640 acres, whichever is smaller.

(b) Mountain meadow land. In addition, the range-building allowance shall include 35 cents times the number of acres classified as mountain meadow land in the ranching unit in the counties of Lassen, Modoc, Mono, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity.

CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

Payments under the 1940 Range Conservation Program shall be made only on those ranches with respect to which the county committee certifies that good range-management practices have been carried out during 1940 and only for such practices as are needed on the ranch to promote conservation and good range management.

Payment for range-building practices shall not exceed the rangebuilding allowance computed for the ranch and shall be made for any practice only when performed in accordance with approved specifications.

No payment will be made where one-half or more of the total cost of a practice is contributed by a State or Federal agency; if less than one-half of such cost is contributed by a State or Federal agency, payment at one-half the approved rate may be made.

All or any part of the payment for performance of range-building practices may be withheld if the applicant has employed any scheme or device that will deprive another person of a share of the payment to which he would have been entitled had the 1939 leasing arrangements been in effect, or if any practice has been adopted which defeats the purpose of this or any previous range programs, or if the forage, tree growth, or watershed has been injured by overgrazing in 1940 on any range land under the control of the operator.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Range program provisions similar to those for agricultural conservation program.—Provisions of the range program with respect to claims, assignments, time of filing applications, increase in

small payments, $10,000 limitations, deductions for administrative expenses, appeals, availability of funds, and applicability are similar to such provisions in Part I of this handbook.

Establishment of grazing capacities.-The grazing capacity of each ranch for which Form WR-415 is executed, which form must be filed in the county office before May 1, 1940, will be determined by a competent range examiner.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Complete information may be obtained from the county office of the county agricultural conservation association regarding payments, appeals, range-building practices, and other details of the program. N. E. DODD.

Director, Western Division.

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1940

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ADMINISTRATION

WESTERN DIVISION

COLORADO HANDBOOK

1940 Agricultural Conservation Program

PURPOSES OF THE PROGRAM

1. To protect and restore the soil resources of the Nation by assisting farmers to plant soil-building crops and carry out soil-building and range-building practices.

2. To raise farm income by bringing supplies of major crops in line with demand, and by offering payments to farmers for cooperating in bringing about better conditions for agriculture.

3. To stabilize and maintain adequate food supplies for consumers.

PART I-1940 AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION

PROGRAM

HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS

Payments may be earned by planting within farm acreage allotments and by carrying out soil-building and soil-conserving practices. Individual farm allotments are determined by the county committee in cooperation with community committees for wheat in all counties and for potatoes and commercial vegetables in counties in which the production of these crops is important. Normal yields are also determined for wheat and potatoes.

The State is divided into A and B areas. The A area consists of Boulder, El Paso, Huerfano, Jefferson, Larimer, Las Animas, Pueblo, Teller, and all counties east thereof. The B area consists of the remaining counties in the State.

A wind-erosion farm is a farm in the counties of Boulder, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Jefferson, Larimer, Las Animas, and all counties east thereof, owned or leased by a conservation district, an association determined by the State committee to have been organized for conservation purposes, or a State agency authorized by law to own or lease land for conservation or erosion-control purposes. The provisions relating to payments and deductions are different for wind-erosion farms. These provisions may be obtained. from the county committee.

WHEAT

Wheat acreage allotments and yields are determined by the county committee in cooperation with community committees for all farms on which wheat is grown.

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Payment and deduction on wheat-allotment farms.-A payment will be computed equal to 9 cents per bushel times the normal yield of wheat for the farm for each acre in its wheat acreage allotment. The approximate amount of the wheat payment is shown on Form WR-406B for farms in area B and on WR-406A for farms in area A.

A deduction will be made on a wheat-allotment farm of 50 cents per bushel times the normal yield for each acre planted to wheat in excess of its wheat acreage allotment.

Nonwheat-allotment farms.-A farm may be considered to be a nonwheat-allotment farm if the persons having an interest in the wheat so elect. A farm for which a wheat acreage allotment is not determined is also considered to be a nonwheat-allotment farm. A wind-erosion farm in Boulder, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Jefferson, Larimer, Las Animas and all counties east thereof is considered to be a nonwheat-allotment farm.

No wheat payment will be made on a nonwheat-allotment farm. On a nonwheat-allotment farm the deduction will be 50 cents per bushel times the normal yield for each acre of wheat harvested for grain or for any other purpose after reaching maturity in excess of the wheat acreage allotment or 10 acres, whichever is larger, in area A, and in excess of the usual acreage of wheat determined by the county committee for the farm or 10 acres, whichever is larger, in area B.

Acreage will be considered to be planted to wheat if (1) devoted to seeded wheat (except when wheat is seeded in a mixture of fall-sown rye and fall-sown wheat seeded together, provided the mixture contains not less than 25 percent by weight of rye); (2) any acreage of volunteer wheat which is harvested or remains on the land in area A after May 15, 1940, or in area B after June 15, 1940; and (3) any acreage of land which is seeded to the wheat mixture under (1) above but the rye fails to reach maturity and the wheat is harvested for grain or seed or reaches maturity.

POTATOES

In Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Delta, Eagle, Custer, Garfield, La Plata, Mesa, Moffatt, Montezuma, Montrose, Morgan, Pitkin, Rio Grande, Routt, Saguache, Sedgwick, Teller, and Weld Counties a potato acreage allotment will be determined for each farm which normally grows 3 acres or more of potatoes.

A payment will be computed equal to 3 cents per bushel times the normal yield of potatoes determined by the county committee for each acre in the potato allotment. The approximate potato payment will be shown on WR-406A or WR-408B.

If an acreage in excess of the potato acreage allotment or 3 acres (whichever is larger) is planted on a farm in the above-listed counties a deduction of 30 cents per bushel of the farm's normal yield will be computed for each excess acre.

COMMERCIAL VEGETABLES

In Adams, Alamosa, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, Delta, Fremont, Jefferson, Mesa, Montrose, Otero, Pueblo, Rio Grande, Routt,

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and Weld Counties a commercial-vegetable acreage allotment will be determined for each farm on which the average acreage of land normally planted to commercial vegetables is 3 acres or more.

A payment will be computed of $1.50 for each acre in the commercial-vegetable acreage allotment for the farm. The approximate amount of the commercial-vegetable payment will be shown on WR-406A or WR-406B.

In the above counties a deduction of $20 per acre will be computed for each acre of land planted to commercial vegetables in excess of the larger of the commercial-vegetable acreage allotment for the farm, or 3 acres.

Commercial vegetables means the acreage of annual vegetables or truck crops (including potatoes in noncommercial potato counties, sweet potatoes other than for starch, tomatoes, sweet corn, cantaloupes, annual strawberries, commercial bulbs and flowers, but excluding peas for canning or freezing and sweet corn for canning) of which the larger portion of the production is sold to persons not living on the farm.

TOTAL SOIL-DEPLETING ALLOTMENT

A total soil-depleting acreage allotment will be determined for each farm in area A and for each farm for which a wheat acreage or potato acreage allotment is determined in area B. A farm productivity index will be determined for each farm in area A.

Payments and deductions on general-allotment farms. In area A a payment of $1.10 per acre, adjusted for productivity, will be computed for each acre in the total soil-depleting acreage allotment in excess of the sum of (1) the wheat, potato, and commercial-vegetable acreage allotments with respect to which payments are computed for the farm, and (2) the acreage of sugar beets planted for harvest in 1940 for the extraction of sugar. The approximate amount of this payment is shown on WR-406A.

In area A on general-allotment farms a deduction of $8 per acre, adjusted for productivity, will be made for soil-depleting acreage in excess of the sum of the total soil-depleting acreage allotment for the farm and any excess acreage of wheat, potatoes, or commercial vegetables with respect to which deductions are computed.

Payments and deductions on non-general-allotment farms.-A farm in area A for which a total soil-depleting acreage allotment of 20 acres or less is determined will be considered as a non-generalallotment farm if the persons having an interest in the general sondepleting crops on the farm so elect on WR-406A.

No payment will be made with respect to general crops on nongeneral-allotment farms. However, the soil-building allowance is larger on these farms.

Ön non-general-allotment farms in area A a deduction of $8 per acre, adjusted for productivity, will be made for soil-depleting acreage in excess of the sum of 20 acres and any excess acreage of wheat, potatoes, or commercial vegetables with respect to which deductions are computed.