. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. June, 1939] The Agricultural Conservation Program in N. H. 17 not be so important. On the 227 active commercial dairy farms only 759 acres of tillage land or per cent were on farms where no reseed- ing was done in 1937. On a few farms seeding is done every other year but in a detailed examination of records this factor was unimpor- tant. TILLAGE ACRES (THOUSAND). 0-19 . ANIMAL UNITS PER ACRE Figure 3. Tillage acres distributed according to animal units per acre. The shaded portion represents acreage enrolled in the conservation program. The la
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. June, 1939] The Agricultural Conservation Program in N. H. 17 not be so important. On the 227 active commercial dairy farms only 759 acres of tillage land or per cent were on farms where no reseed- ing was done in 1937. On a few farms seeding is done every other year but in a detailed examination of records this factor was unimpor- tant. TILLAGE ACRES (THOUSAND). 0-19 . ANIMAL UNITS PER ACRE Figure 3. Tillage acres distributed according to animal units per acre. The shaded portion represents acreage enrolled in the conservation program. The lack of aggressive management of tillage land as shown in the failure to reseed is another indication of a situation leading toward a gradual decline in yielding power on non-commercial farms. In the minds of the operators as expressed in their actions aggressive man- agement will not pay and so the land declines in agricultural produc- tion, lo Since reseeding was increased in 1937 over that of 1935 the data were examined to determine where this increase took place, and especially to analyze the significance of the change. First of all, it was noted that when the farms were sorted according to the per cent of reseeding in 1935 and in 1937, there was a decrease of farms where no reseeding was done. Approximately one-tenth of the total tillage land moved from farms with no reseeding practices to farms associated with re- seeding. On the 376 commercial dairy farms 133 operators reseeded the same acreage in 1937 as in 1935, 67 reseeded less, and 176 reseeded more. Of those who reseeded the same or less acreage, 69 reseeded less than 6 per cent of the tillage land in 1937. It might be said that these had made no improvement in seeding practices and were not reseeding enough land. Thus, it would seem that payments for reseeding have not induced certain operators who are deficient in reseeding practices to improve See footnote No. Please note that these images are extracted from sc
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