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An allocation of $29,801 for the Agricultural Conservation Pro gram of the Production Market ing Administration in Prince Ed ward county has been granted bv the government for 1953. Donald Morris, county PMA clerk, an nounced the figure. C rrptred to the last tvo years, the 1953 figure shows a slight dr op. Last vear, the government granted $29,981 to farmers of the county, and $36,196 in 1951. "Washington officials are stres- i sing the permanent t.yne of con- i servation practices, this year," j Mr. Morris said. Among the permanent type! practices, lie listed forestry, j permanent pastures, and water-, wavs, and strip-cropping. The ACP program is carried out' on a share-the-ccst basis, through | the County PMA Committee, which is responsible for keeping i the total guaranteed assistance and actual payments for the county within the alotted figure i T. C. Hix is chairman of the County PMA Committee. Limited conservation practices included in the program are lime, winter cover crops, summer legumes, summer non-legumes, and phosphate. This is the part, of the program that will receive less emphasis in 1953. according to Mr. Morris.
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