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equipment. Average gross cost" share per farm was $169. The State program offered both long and short term practices, to best gear cost-sharing to the many actual farm conservation problems over the State. However, in 1960 fanners used 92 per cent of the ACP cost-share funds for practices that provide enduring conservation benefits.
Major conservation established on farms in Virginia last year included :
All protective vegetative cover, established or improved 394,260 a.
Trees planted or timber stands improved 15,902 a.
Stripcropping 3,607 a.
Drainage to manage, conserve agricultural water 15,728 a.
Waterways prepared and seeded or sodded to prevent erosion 328 a.
Lime for establishing conservation cover 324,647 tons.
Pasture water supplies other than ponds 391 installations.
Controlling competitive weeds and shrubs in permanent pastures 7,300 a.
Water storage pond 939 structures.
Local groups in two counties utilized the ACP to solve major community .conservation problems. For example, ACP cost-sharing was used on 65 farms in 7 “pooling agreements” to help solve water and other conservation prob•lems of a community nature that affected more than one farm and couldn’t be solved by farmers Continued from Page four
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