Section 14. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS The provisions of the 1940 program are necessarily subject to any legislation which Congress may enact. Payments and grants of aid will be made only from appropriations made by Congress for this purpose, and the amounts of the payments will be limited by the amount of the appropriation, the apportionment of the appropriation under the provisions of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, and the extent of national participation in the program. As an adjustment for the extent of participation in the program, the rates of payment and deduction may be increased or decreased by as much as 10 percent. Issued January 4, 1940, with the approval of the Administrator. SRB-401-Ga. Issued January 1940 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ADMINISTRATION SOUTHERN DIVISION GEORGIA HANDBOOK 1940 Agricultural Conservation Program [Program effective from January 1, 1940 to November 30, 1940] Sec. 8. SOIL-BUILDING GOALS, PAYMENTS, AND PRACTICES: Sec. 9. SOIL-DEPLETING ACREAGE. Sec. 10. DIVISION OF PAYMENTS AND DEDUCTIONS: A. Payments and deductions for acreage allotments. B. Soil-building practice payments C. Proration of net deductions.. 200188°-40-1 Sec. 11. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO PAYMENTS AND DEDUCTIONS: B. Payments limited to $10,000 C. Deductions incurred on other farms_ D. Deduction for association expenses- E. Payment restricted to effectuation of the purposes of the program.. G. Changes in leasing and cropping agreements, reduction in number H. Assignments... I. Excess cotton acreage. J. Materials furnished to carry out soil-building practices. Sec. 12. APPLICATION FOR PAYMENT: A. Persons eligible to file applications.. B. Time and manner of filing application and information required Sec. 13. APPEALS.. Sec. 14. DEFINITIONS. Sec. 15. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. FOREWORD The 1940 Agricultural Conservation Program in Georgia is a continuation of the conservation program which has been in effect for the last 4 years, with some new provisions to make the program more effective. As in the past programs, the objectives of the 1940 program are: (1) To help farmers get and maintain a fair share of the national income. (2) To protect the interests of consumers by providing for ample supplies of food, feed, fiber, and other agricultural products at prices that are fair to both consumers and producers. (3) To guarantee, as nearly as possible, continued ample supplies of agricultural products by conserving and rebuilding national soil resources through the adjustment of soil-depleting crop acreages and widespread use of soil-building practices. (4) To improve the living conditions of farm people by increasing the production of food and feed crops for home use. To approach these objectives, national, State, county, and farm allotments for major soil-depleting cash crops are determined and payments are made for planting within these farm allotments. Assistance is also provided for carrying out soil-building practices which could not otherwise be carried out. The purpose of these allotments is to help farmers to maintain the nation's supply of farm products more nearly in line with demand and to more nearly stabilize income at the parity level than would be the case if there were no orderly and balanced system of production and marketing of these products. DEPOSITED BY THE NITED STATES OF AMERIC MAR 6 '40 INTRODUCTION Pursuant to the provisions of the 1940 Agricultural Conservation Program Bulletin, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture, and the authority vested thereby in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, payments and materials as grants of aid will be made for participation in Georgia in the 1940 program, in accordance with the provisions of said bulletin and such modifications thereof or other provisions as may hereafter be made. The provisions in this handbook (except section 11B) are applicable only to farms in Georgia but such provisions are not applicable to lands owned by the United States and administered by the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, United States Soil Conservation Service, United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Bureau of Biological Survey, or any other lands in which the United States has acquired the beneficial ownership for the primary purpose of effecting the conservation of such land and with a view to retaining it permanently under government ownership. Therefore, no payment may be made to any producer under the 1940 program with respect to lands owned by these governmental agencies. Section 1. COTTON A. Farm allotments.-The same method used in establishing cotton allotments for 1939 will be used in 1940. The cotton allotment for each farm is a fixed percentage-uniform for the county or administrative area-of the farm's cropland, excluding the acreage normally devoted to the commercial production of tobacco and wheat, with certain exceptions and special provisions, as follows: (1) Farms for which the allotment would otherwise be 5 acres or less will have an allotment of the smaller of 5 acres or the highest cotton acreage planted and diverted in 1937, 1938, or 1939. (2) Regardless of other provisions, no allotment will be less than 50 percent of the 1937 planted and diverted cotton acreage, provided that no allotment is thereby increased to more than 40 percent of the farm's cropland. (3) A small reserve may be allotted to farms that would otherwise have an allotment of 5 acres or more. (4) No allotment determined under the above will be larger than the highest cotton acreage planted and diverted in any of the past 3 years. (5) A small reserve may be available from any "frozen" cotton allotments released by operators to be used to increase allotments that are inadequate and not representative. (6) A small acreage reserve is available for "new" cotton farms, that is, farms on which cotton is planted in 1940 for the first time since January 1, 1937. B. Farm normal yields.-The county committee, with the assistance of other local committees, shall determine a normal cotton yield farm having a cotton allotment. for each 3 (1) The normal yield shall be the actual average yield of cotton per acre for the 5 years 1935 to 1939, inclusive, adjusted for abnormal weather conditions, if reliable records of the actual average of such yields are presented by the producer or are available to the committee. (2) If for any year of such 5-year period records of the actual average yield are not available or there was no actual yield because cotton was not planted on the farm in such year, the normal yield for the farm shall be the yield which the county committee determines to be the average yield which was or could reasonably have been expected on the farm for such 5-year period on the basis of all available facts, including the yield customarily made on the farm, weather conditions, type of soil, drainage, production practices, and general fertility of the land. (3) The yields determined under paragraph (2) of this subsection shall be adjusted so that the average of the normal yields for all farms in the county or administrative area will not exceed the normal yield established for the county or administrative area. C. Payments.-The payment is 1.6 cents for each pound of the normal yield for each acre in the cotton allotment. If the acreage planted to cotton is in excess of the allotment, there will be a deduction at the rate of 4 cents for each pound of the normal yield of the excess acres. Any person who knowingly plants, or causes or permits the planting of, cotton on his farm in 1940 on acreage in excess of the cotton allotment for the farm for 1940 shall not be eligible for any payment on that farm or any other farm under the 1940 program. D. Acreage planted to cotton means the acreage seeded to cotton, the staple of which is normally less than 11⁄2 inches in length, which reaches the stage of growth at which bolls are first formed. Section 2. TOBACCO A. Farm allotments.-The county committee, with the assistance of other local committees, shall determine an acreage allotment for flue-cured or Burley or Georgia-Florida Type 62 tobacco for any farm on which such kind of tobacco was produced in one or more of the 5 years 1935-39 on the basis of past acreage of such kind of tobacco (harvested and diverted), with due allowance for drought, flood, hail, other abnormal weather conditions; plant-bed and other diseases; land, labor, and equipment available for the production of tobacco; crop-rotation practices; and the soil and other physical factors affecting the production of tobacco. Special consideration shall be given to farms for which acreage allotments are small. The allotment for any farm on which tobacco is produced in 1940 for the first time since January 1, 1935, shall be determined on the basis of the tobacco-producing experience of the farm operator, land, labor, and equipment available for the production of tobacco, crop-rotation practices, and the soil and other physical factors affecting the production of tobacco. B. Farm normal yields.-The county committee, with the assistance of other local committees, shall determine a normal tobacco yield for each farm for which a tobacco allotment is determined or a deduction is computed in accordance with the following provisions: |