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Show VA Says 93 Of Trainees Hold Farm Interests Ninety-three per cent of the 247,000 GI Bill farm trainees, as of the end of 1949, either owned their own' farms or operated oper-ated farms which they in some way controlled. The remaining seven per cent were training on farms owned by others. Nearly all the veteran farm owners, Veterans Administration Administra-tion said, had small "family-type" "family-type" farms, where all the work of keeping things running is done by the veteran himself, with members of his family performing per-forming whatever chores they can handle. Yet the farms are not too small. VA regulations require them to be properly equipped; productive enough to insure a satisfactory income at least by the end of the training program; large enough to keep a veteran busy full time, and of a char- acter which permits instruction in all aspects of farm management manage-ment for the type of farming in which the veteran is being trained. The farm training' program also enables an eligible veteran to go to school part-time to learn up - to - date methods of farming and farm management, and then to put his classroom knowledge into practice on the farm. His classroom instructor pays frequent visits to the farm to see whether he is getting the greatest possible benefit out of this program, and to give him any instructions he might need. |