Show Government Agencies 1 lap Program for Basin Development Ten Demonstration Farms to f Established Here for Study Purposes r the past week regional ind area officials of the Farm administration have been Security working local Personnel in i outlining a Special Area program for the Uintah Among the visiting officials were Alyce V. Regional chief of the i Special Area Russell J. farm management j S. F. G. all of San Fran- Edwin Hurd of the Bureau Agriculture Economics at Ethlyn area and J. area farm management both from 1 and Evan O. of district cooperative During the afternoon of September a meeting at Roosevelt of all state and federal agencies operating in the Basin was conducted by For some time it has been com- mon knowledge among people liv-ing here and those from the interested in the development agriculture in the Basin that this area has been approved as a Special Area under the Farm Se- This fog offered the first public of the program proposed I assistance to eligible farmers in Experimental Farm Program meeting consisted of a ent from Greaves of of the an t of ure and programs by Alyce the outlining of an farm program by J. a statement of fl K k status and scope of live health programs in the Unit-H States by W. G. and a from a representative of agency In outlining the activities of the special area programs and j proposed Special Area pro- ram for the Uintah Miss j pointed out that there i are eleven such areas in the t w States that have been set by order of the Secretary i ft Agriculture as special areas der the Farm Security The was created 1 tor the purpose of rendering needed assistance to low-income rm families and was charged rehabilitation of i Tl The work of rural I was originally op- a state agency known I Utah Rural Rehabilitation and was turned ovar I the United States Department I agriculture in 1937 when the Security administration 1 fras I standard rural W S o definite limita-f a Program has offered farm families credit to be used for along with hard a on the part of S-Lf debt-free in areas jt has become Miss Williams ore attack Problems of rural To accomplish was given for i to ize a moro intensified Si Aas in which this by secre- tf are 88 Features Basin authority Farm Security Uie M K real estate loans is is unavoidable from credit the proceeds actual yube used only to tures for w as i cannot be obtained labor on or exchange of f loans for V listing housing fa- landlords or ire be made to 'S families iS or arrange construction of more adequate farm and fences from available in our immediate 5 To assist Individuals or mutual companies In obtaining Improved water supplies for culinary or stock watering purposes and the irrigation of land m amounts not to exceed one acre per Continued on Page Three GOVERNMENT AGENCIES MAP PROGRAM FOR BASIN DEVELOPMENT from Page One J ily with the emphasis being upon self G. To assist and encourage the continuation of cooperative efforts in the Basin which wll include many aspects such as medical and dental cooperative improvement of sanitary facilities about the cooperative ownership of heavy farm equipment and dairy cooperative veterinarian cooperative cow testing and cooperative marketing and purchasing in some To make demonstration-experimentation on actual farm units to discover desirable combinations of farm enterprises and to incorporate into the farm operations improved varieties of crops and livestock and general farm To Intensify emphasis upon farm and home planning and the accounting of farm operations in an accurate and business like To emphasize and work toward the goal of more equitable and satisfactory relationships between tenants and landlords and between debtors and creditors in Demonstration Farms Pearson stated that to facilitate Special Area work and future planning for Basin ten farms would be chosen representing the various types of farming and farm organization and over a ten year period experimentation and demonstration would be carried The major emphasis in this type of he would be to discover the most profitable and best adapted type of farm organization for the family type of farm in the Uintah Each unit will be thoroughly studied and he and the outstanding problems noted in determining the type of demonstration-experimentation to be carried This particular phase of the program will be jointly carried on by the Farm Security administration and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics with the solicited cooperation of all local government Cooperative Medical Units Mr outlined briefly the operations of cooperative medical and dental care among borrowers in the United There are now thirty-nine states in the union in which cooperative medical and or dental care programs are in Such medical programs call for the formation of all interested families into a cooperative association empowered by law to accept from its participants a certain fixed fee per year which is pooled to provide medical and dental care for the Such an association for medical and dental care has been in op In the Uintah Basin since June 15 o In any new program this Reldy a great many difficulties are encountered during the first year's but each program has come back the second year a strong and expanded A representative of each agency represented responded to Greaves' to state his views in relation to the proposed Special Area program ancl outline ways and means of supporting such an Present at the meeting were representatives o the Utah State Agricultural Extension Bureau of Agricultural U. S. Grazing U. S. Reclamation the Indian U. S. Forest the State Department of the County Welfare Departments of Duchesne and Uintah Utah State Department of Duchesne and Uintah County Public Health U. S. Water District Office of Soil Conservation Federal Land Smith-Hughes units in the Utah State Agricultural Experiment Duchesne County Board of and area and regional officials of the Farm Security In announcing the Special Area program to the local speaking for the county staff and the County calls attention to the fact that through the Special Area program of the Farm Security Administration the is opened up whereby the programs of Basin Agricultural Development advocated by County Planning committee is now available to Basin and that the assistance and support of ail people and agencies of the Basin are needed make the most of this It should also be borne in mind that the Special Area program gives to the Farm Security administration the necessary author ity to carry out a program after the manner outlined The request for such authority reached the Secretary of Agriculture from the people in and out of tho Basin who were interested in concentrating their efforts in every possible avenue of assistance to rural The actual extent and operation of the will be governed by the desires of the eligible families for such a program on the one and the economic and social advisability and justification on the |