Better Southern Farming Through the 1938 AAA Program

Excerpt: This leaflet offers, first, a short statement of how payments for soil-building practices are computed; and second, as its main object, it shows how the soil-building practices may be used by the farmers of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and certain counties of Arkansas: (1) To increase dairy, other livestock and poultry production for home use (2) To increase the production of orchards and vegetables (3) To increase and improve farm woodlands (4) To conserve the soil (5) To increase farm income (6) To promote better standards of living.