Show COOPS CO OPS RELIEVE MACHINE SHORTAGE threatening Theat ening shortages of both human and mechanical farm labor coming precisely when the american farm defense program has called for all out production are giving emphasis to the benefits of cooperative ownership and use of heavy farm machinery ac to department of agriculture spokesmen lloyd K X county supervisor tor for the farm security administration said that farmers all over the nation are showing heightened interest in the program of community and cooperative services as an aid to carrying cut their defense production pledges there is no doubt that cooperation is the cheapest az as well as one of the easiest and most neighborly ways for small smail farmers to get the advantages of efficient e laborsaving labor saving machines mr sch lappi declared most 0 us know this is true but the incentives to cooperation are bigger today than ever before the individual who buys an expensive piece of equipment now and intends to pay it oft off on time may find that time and fluctuation in money and profits will make repayment tougher than it looks cooperative buying can not only lighten the first cost and all operating expenses but in case of machine shortages it will spread the benefits of modern eq equipment a lot more widely the community and coo cooperative cooperate ive services program makes individual loans at 3 per cent interest to ito eligible farmers who want to get together on purchase of a tractor other mechanical facilities or a purebred livestock sire that all of th the group need funds loaned are pooled to buy the article desired repayment is made in I 1 to 5 years year f from fees collected by the cooperative in proportion to ito each farmers use of the jointly owned service farmers who ho reed need heavy machines or blooded sires are eligible for bof loans from farm security only it if they are unable to get adecir adequate aate credit at al reasonable terms from other sources mr continued on last page COOPS CO OPS JL V JL MACHINE sa s1 1 1 V rt T A gi 1 E continued from page one explained r this does not prevent farmers aho vho ho have their own funds from corning coming into one of it these coops co ops as non borrowing members or as patrons unless the service is already operating at capacity the farm security administration has already helped to organize and finance 1185 cooperative service groups in utah which serve farmers pich county has 22 cocos co cos at present local farmers interested in availing themselves of this program or desiring sir ng more information may apt pt in in touch with mr at his office in randolph |