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Show more than $300,000. A total of 319 loans have been made to small groups of ' three or four. Each group averages ten participants. The fees agreed upon by the participants par-ticipants make the loans practically practi-cally self, liquidating, Garst point-;ed point-;ed out. A large proportion of the money mon-ey thus borrowed has gone into , trade channels through the purchase pur-chase of tractors, binders, thresh-jers, thresh-jers, disc plows, ensilage cutters, I potato diggers, sprayers and the I like. None of the borrowers was j personally able to finance the ; purchase of such equipment, j Utah led the four states in bor-i bor-i rowers with 213 community ser-jvice ser-jvice loans and 3316 participants, j Aside from heavy machinery purebred pure-bred sires led the list of community commun-ity services established. The total borrowed by Utah farmers was $214,382. California farmers have bo:Towed $64,692; Arizona farmers, farm-ers, $42,000; Nevada farmers, $7,-396. $7,-396. Additional funds are available for community service loans in the four states and applications are being received by Farm Security Administration county supervisors j Community Service Loans Prove Popular San Francisco More than 3,000 farm families in Arizona, Nevada California and Utah have participated partici-pated in Farm Security Administration Adminis-tration community service loans for the improvement of their farms, Jonathan Garst, FSA regional re-gional director, has announced'. Community service loans, Garst explained are made to small groups of low-Income farmers for the purchase of every type of farm equipment, and .purebred sires. Neighbors agreed to pay a nominal nomin-al See lor the services . thus made available. Loans run for five years or less at thr3 p:rcent interest. "This type of loan," Garst said, "has made It possible for small farmers to enjoy the advantages of modern farm prachinery and to improve their herds. The low-in-J come farmer cannot operate on a mule-and-a-plow' basis and sue-: cessful compete in the markets, j Taking advantage of the com- munity service loan farmers inj the four states have borrowed' |