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Show 372 on direct individual payments of $10,000 per year.115 Provision is made for division of such payments among landlords, ten- ants, and sharecroppers. In recent years, the limitation on individual payments has been fixed in appropriation statutes at smaller amounts, that for the 1951 program being $2,500.116 Price Support In considering the foregoing programs for soil conservation, reference should also be made to price-support legislation. Under the Agricultural Act of 1949, the Secretary of Agri- culture is directed to provide price support for certain agricul- tural commodities.117 But the Act contains no mandatory re- quirement assuring proper use of land in the interest of soil conservation in the event the price-support program should encourage the growing of certain crops under conditions incom- patible with soil-conservation practices. Retirement of Submarginal Lands Under 1937 legislation, the Secretary of Agriculture is di- rected to develop a program of "land conservation and land utilization, including the retirement of lands which are sub- marginal or not primarily suitable for cultivation."118 The express purpose of this legislation is: 119 to correct maladjustments in land use, and thus assist in controlling soil erosion, reforestation, preserving nat- ural resources, mitigating floods, preventing impair- ment of dams and reservoirs, conserving surface and subsurface moisture, protecting the watersheds of navi- gable streams, and protecting the public lands, health, safety and welfare. U5§8, 49 Stat. 1149, as amended, 16 U. S. O. 590h(e). na See, e. g., Act of September 6,1950, 64 Stat. 595, -. m Act of October 31, 1949, 63 Stat. 1051, 7 U. S. O. 612c, 1301, 1301 note following, 1322, 1328, 1343-1345, 1353-1356, 1421-1431, 1441, 1446-1449 and 12 U. S. 0.1134c, 1134j and 15 U. S. C. 713a-4 (Supp. III). 118 Act of July 22,1937, § 31, 50 Stat. 522, 525, as amended, 7 U. S. 0.1010. 118 Id. |