Ufl Explains Rulings Regulating Meraiss On-Farm Trairag tmm i A recent Veterans Administration Adminis-tration ruling that their farms must include tilling of the soil as a basic activity will not apply ap-ply to veterans who had started start-ed G.I Bill institutional on-farm training before May 15, V-A has announced. Their farms, however, still must meet all other requirements require-ments of the law establishing the farm training program and of previous V-A regulations. The farms of veterans enrolling en-rolling on or after May 15, V-A pointed out, must meet the new criteria in order for veterans to remain in training. Institutional on-farm training, V-A explained, is a program that combines classroom instruction in-struction with actual experience on the veteran's farm. According to the ruling-, which applies to newcomers, a farm or other agricultural establishment establish-ment on which G.I. Bill training train-ing is offered must include "the cultivation of the ground and the raising and harvesting of crops, including fruits, vegetables, vege-tables, pastures, etc." - The, farm .also, may . havei as ah activity of greater or lesser economic importance, "the feed ing, breeding and management of livestock, including poultry." But single-enterprise establishments, estab-lishments, "engaged solely in breeding, raising and sale of animals and .poultry" do not meet the requirements of the law, the V-A regulation continues. con-tinues. Neither do establishments establish-ments engaged primarily in the processing', distribution or sale of agricultural products, it adds. Veterans who started training train-ing on or after May 15 on farms which fail to meet V-A's requirements re-quirements may not continue on the institutional on-farm plan. Instead, they may train either on-the-job or in schools. One of the major requirements require-ments that farms of all veteran-trainees must meet is this: "The farm shall be of size and character which, together with the group instruction part of the course, will occupy the full time of the veteran, permit instruction in-struction in all aspects of management man-agement of a farm of the type for which the veteran is being trained, and if the veterans intends in-tends to continue operating such fam at the close of his course, will assure him a satisfactory satis-factory income under normal conditions." Another of the more important import-ant requirements is . that the duration of the training course "must be no longer than necessary neces-sary to attain the objective of the course outlined to meet the particular needs of the individual individ-ual veteran." V-A emphasized that its recent re-cent ruling does not add anything any-thing to previous regulations and instructions. Instead, it is an amplification of the original policy outlining the type of farm on which institutional on-farm training may be taken. V-A also pointed out that its regulations new and old do not attempt to define a farm as such. They simply set forth qualifications farms should have for- purposes. 1 of - training under the law. S . ,- i , - . : X t .., ton?.. 1 : i r r t 4 :, ) n - ; ' ; ' " -I Broilers need water to put on weight. Laying hens need it to maintain satisfactory egg production. produc-tion. And they need it all year round winter and summer. In years past, poultry waterers required almost constant attention during the winter. Often the battle against ice was fought with steaming steam-ing kettles of water. One method of overcoming this problem is presented in the accompanying ac-companying illustration. It shows the installation of a heat lamp over a common type of waterer. The warmth produced is sufficient to keep the water free of ice as I. well as- tp-pr.eve.nt.JUU.er from be.- , . . i' coming wet around the waterer.