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April 15 Is Deadline
For Signing
Land Contracts
Farmer* are now signing Spil Bank Conservation Reserve contracts with the U. S. Department of Agriculture to, earn payments on land retired from crop produo * tion. But to be effective for 1958,' contracts must be, signed at the Agricultural Stabilisation and. Conservation < A$C) county office hot later than April 15, 1958*
Rappahannock County ASC chairman, jH, S. Barksdale, points out that the Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank offers opportunist ties to take cropland out of ’pro-;, duction of unneeded crops and put ' it to Conservation uses .they choose —pe manent cover crops, trees, wate" storage, or wildlife habitat. . • Con—tcls are for 5,*or 10 years* ;; duration upon the conservation tee -• estcl ^bed, on the reserve.
Payments to cooperating far- • mem arc c* two types: fl) A costshare p!>—fent of up to 80 per cent of -’’f cost of devoting the “reserve” land to any of the four conserv—'-m uses, ahd (2) a cash payment ner-acre for land in the* ’ program each year the contract is ' in effect. This annual payment varies according to fhe taluc and productivity of land in the srea and on the farth. ' •' . ■
A jeaflet giving details of the Conservation is available in the ■ Rappahannock County ASC Office. M/*C; Gore, County office emaigtftrr, -be-glad t» explain.to 4iy famuer how the Con«erva-», tion Reserve program would fit, into hi* farming operations.
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