Show j Improvement of Farms gets Study in county To raise the values of their farms and increase their income a number of Duchesne County farmers are thinking in terms of better soil conservation permanent pasture full development and use of farm water supplies and good reports Jay S. Farmers Home Administration County The farmers Home has a loan program to help eligible farmers carry out needed soil and water conservation he and added that practices most need- ed and moat likely to be carried on through the agency's loana In this area Include land improving drilling developing farstead water facilities and purchasing water Will Make The making of soil and water conservation loans to farmers who are eligible is one of the functions of the agency's county office located at the county supervisor pointed Each county has a county and one of its duties is to determine whether or not an applicant is eligible for a be the applicant must be a farm owner or with necessary whose credit requirements for soil and water conservation improvements cannot be supplied through private or cooperative The agency has completed approximately four years of making soil and water conservation loana under the present Fitzgerald During that time approximately individual farm families the plus associations approximately have borrowed About 80 percent of this X helped farmers develon water and irrigation This included buying motors and and constructing pairing irrigation ditches J Farmers used the rest of loan funds to develop and household water and for soil conservation mS tices such as ing and tree For the present fiscal Congress made able for direct soil JM conservation This addition to a larger anSI which local banks or other M vate lenders may advance K this type of with ment in full insured Farmers Home |