Show GROUP LOANS AID SMALL FARMS costs cost of kineavy farm machinery and other equipment needed for efficient operation have been out cut as much ns as 75 per cent by western small I 1 farmers taking part jr m the farm security administrations group loan program it was learned yesterday from A S gardner supervisor visor for summit county mr gardner said that money lent by talis community and cooperative service program enables goupe of from 2 to 10 or more low income farmers to purchase tractors tractor combines crizel ensilage lage cutters purebred sires and many other services each service or machine is owned and operated jointly by members of the cooper ting group for common benefit according to the farm security supervisor a rapid expansion of this program in utah I 1 Arf zorna d nevada shows that fa farmers s in tae lower income brackets realize they must pool their efforts if and resources in order to compete successfully with large scale farms which are heavily I 1 d and well financed only in this way can they pare down crippling outlays of capital and overhead expense or avold avoid govig going deeper into debt to buy tahe equipment they must have to succeed he declared when a 40 acre farmer buys a acre tractor he pays plenty tor for it right at the tart aart then he goes on paying overhead for the use he can never get out of it on his limited acreage the same goes for the man who buys a bull to ao service a herd ot of five or ten cows its very different when farmers ge get together to buy and use that same efficient tractor or purebred bull sharing the cost and getting the most out of investment by operating at capacity mr gardner said that nearly 1000 community and cop copperas ve service lee groups have been set up in the four weste western rn state of region IX almost farmers are using the machinery sires and facilities operated by these groups groupe farm security surveys show that more than of the cooperative services exist li in the united states as a wl ole members alave ilave leave 1 obtained rn many ny many t types apes 0 of f farm machinery ery and services tor for i processing marketing and livestock improvement I 1 mont T at an average cost tt lo each farmer of less than 35 community and cooperative service loans are made by only to small farmers unable to get adequate quate credit elsewhere however non borrowing farmers who are financially able may subscribe their proportionate share in cash to become members of a cooperating group if its service Is not being used to capacity by borrowing members aers according to mr gardner there are now 80 86 farmers ta summit co who have hav individual rehabilitation loans from and 23 who have rcck received aved group loans tre tie coon cooperative program in utah has grown grown to such an extent it has been ne necessary cesary to re redistrict district the cooperative setup set up william A anglim regional cooperative specialist and wm J thayne cooperative specialist for this district were n COal collvile vile friday in i fieck over with mr gardner th county form farm security administration Super supervisor vior the cooperative program in his territory summit county bee |