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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS
g, R, t>. Burr P. Harrison Washington—The soil ban k, which has been a minor factor in Vi rg nia agriculture, continues to be a heavy charge on the tajcpayep, and to catch headlines with reports of mismanagement, windfalls and sharp practices. , President Eisenhower s budget includes an item of $360 million to carry forward the consercation reserve part of the soil bank. In addition, $1 million is asked to wind up loose ends of the acreage reserve part, which ended with the 1958 crop year. In recent budget testimony, Congress heard again how the soal bank not: only had failed to bring about any substantial reductiojK'tn agricultural production.—its original stated purpose—but also had paid handsome u aims to shrewd operators, who capitalized on loopholes in the law and regulations
In 1958, a House Appropriation Subcommittee was told, there were only 480 soil bank conservation reserve contracts in force m Virginia, as against;19ol2 contracts in Tens. Id Tc .according to a General A counting Office report, admir ti.n of the
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