NOTICE
For ' "PC'UR-'OFF' liter Office Hours1
Sundays and Holidays call either
Vernon Fridley
or
Ralph Moore
OFTICi: CLOSES at NOON on SATURDAYS
Matc.nusica Electric Ass*n, Inc.
Falmer Alaska.
IF YOU ARE
PLANNING TO
REDECORATE
QilIJJ IS THE ^
TIME.
A COMPLETE
OCK OF
p p in
CLCSITIG Ciu. _
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DUTCH BOY PAINT
a variety of colors
195c SOIL CONSERVATION
Cent, from p. 6
to the proper stage of maturity,
v/l ich will be considered to be the
blossoming period. The minimum rate
of seeding is 42 pounds of field
peas and 32 pounds of oats per acre.
Acreage harvested for grain or hay
are not eligible for assistance.
Practice 4 (b-l-ii) Sweetclover
seeded for green manure. Rate of
payment: 4>3.00 per acre.
Payment will be made for plowing un
der during the 1950 program year a
good stand and a good green growth o:
of sweetclover seeded in the spring
of 1950 at a rate of not less than
10 lbs ., of seed per acre .Pasturing
consistent with good management is
P-'"' itted.
Zfiipbice 5 (2-8-ii) Contour farming
i. 'i' ecoil'*ed crops.
j. iaoes of payment: (a) %>1.50 per acre
Acre all Cent, in next column
1950 SOIL CONSERVATION
Cont. from col. l,this page
cultural operations arc on the con
tour.
(b) vl.00 per acre where only the
planting ancl cultivating are on the
contour.
.the crop stubble or crop residue *
must be left standing over winter,'
or a winter cover crop established,
or protective tillage operations
carried out.
Practice 6 (a-8-lv) Contour farming
drilled or close-sown grasses,legumes
or small grains.
Rates of payment! (a) 75 cents per
acre where all cultural operations
are on the contour.
(b) 50 cents per acre where only the
seeding operation is on the contour.
Practice 7 (a-2) Constructing perm
anent ditching with a minimum cross
section of 2.7 square feet on land
of 6 percent or more average slope
with suitable outlets for the diver
sion of surface water.
Rates of payment:
(a) 80 cents per 100 linear feet
when constructed on land where the
topography, stoniness, or size of
fields requires that the ditching be
constructed entirely by hand labor.
(b) 40 cents per 100 linear feet when
constructed on other land.
The practice includes only permanent
ditching constructed primarily for
the purpose of preventing soil wash
ing. The ditches must be of suffi
cient depth and width and of proper
fall to provide adequate carrying
capacity for surface water at a suf
ficiently low velocity to prevent
washing and gullying of the soil. In
no event will ditches with a fall of
nore than 2 percent be eligible for
payment.
Prior approval of the State office
nust be obtained.
Practice Q (a-4) Establishing perm*
anent sod waterways to dispose of
excess water without causing erosion.
Rates of payment: (a) 75 cents per
1,000 square feed for seeding or
sodding.
(b) 12 cents per cubic yard of earth
moved with dirt-moving equipment in
shaping and filling.
Payment will be made for establish
ing in 1950 a permanent sod of per
ennial grasses or a mixture of leg
umes and perennial grasses. The pro
tected waterway must be sufficiently
wide at all points to carry water
diverted into it under conditions'of
probable maximum run-off. However,
payment Vv’ill be limited to a m&xinium
average wicrch of 40 feet, and minimum
of. 12 feet oCofct. on r>age 9