Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1918-03-21
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BASIS FOR LOANS
TO FARM OWNERS
Federal Board Issues Rules for
the Guidance of Land
Banks.
MANY MECHANICS ARE NEEDED
Ten Thousand Skilled Men Wanted for
Service in the Aviation Section of
the Signal Corps-New Kind OF
Bullets.

Bullets.
Washington. = The federal farm
loan board has issued the following
rules for the guidance of the land
banks in determining what area con
stitutes farm for loaning purposes:
"First, Generally-The farm must be
OF sufficient area to yield at the hands
Of an ordinarily capable farmer, put
ting 1t to the use to which it is gen.
orally adapted and using average meth.
DDS, an income sufficient to maintain
the family of the applicant and dis
charge the interest and amortization
payments.
Second, Specially.-Where through
intensive farming or the practice of a
speciality sufficient income has been
regularly derived from a tract de-
fcient in area for ordinary farming,
or where the application of the pros
pective borrower shows that he is by
experience capable Of producing such
an income from such tract, such area
may be accepted as sufficient, provid-
ed the land has a stable and perma-
nent market value sufficient to warrant
the loan applied for. This ruling does
not apply to fruit and orchard lands
which have already been the subjects
of definite rulings by this board"
Under the first paragraph of this rul-
ing loans may be made to the ordinary
farmer on the basis Of average skill
and efficiency, and no tract of land
will be accepted as farm eligible for
loan under the federal farm loan act
unless it is large enough to support
the family and take care of the loan
under the average farm conditions of
the neighborhood.
But under the second paragraph of
the ruling the intensive farmer or the
man who practices profitable special
ty, or who shows himself able to do
so. will be given financial support by
the federal loan system, even though
his farm may be too small for ordinary
farming purposes, provided that the
land quite apart from its use has a
stable and permanent land value which
will make the loan safe whether it is
well operated, or badly operated, or
not operated at all.
Qualified men registered under the
selective service law may be inducted
into service to fill the call for 10000
skilled mechanics needed by the avia-
ton section of the signal corps, by
applying to their local boards. Men
not registered may enlist at recruit
Ing stations.
The present call is particularly for
auto mechanics, engine re-
pairmen, gunsmiths, chauffeurs, car
penters. blacksmiths. tinsmithts, sheet
metal workers, propeller makers,
wireless operators and constructors.
.ailors, tent-makers, sail-makers, truck
masters, vulcanizers, welders, and ex-
Derts on magnetos, ignition systems,
,ameras, watches, and clocks.
/ Men will be sent to San Antonio,
Tex, for segregation by trades, fol-
owed by brief course of instruction
1t flying fields or factories. then Or
yanized into squadrons mostly for
'ervice overseas. Additional informa-
ion may be secured by application to
he air division, personnel department,
D. G.
An illustrated catalogue of official
war photographs and stereopticOn
slides has been issued by the division
If pictures of the committee on pub
ic information. In 1t are listed about
900 pictures available to the public,
including photographs taken by the
signal corps. navy, marine corps and
French and Belgian official photo
graphs.
Each picture listed may be had
either as a Photographic print or as
slide at small price. The
catalogue may be secured by sending |
I've cents to the division of pictures,
committee on public information,
D. G.
About twenty English woman gar
Ieners ere going to France, where they
Will take up the duty tending to the
raves of dead British soldiers.
( The new Mexican service badge"
will soon be issued to officers and en-
listed men who served under certain
conditions in Mexico and on the bor-
Ter. Persons not now in the army
Who would have been entitled to the
,adge and whose separation from the
'ervice has been honorable may secure
authority from the adiutant general
o purchase and wear the service
,adge.
The mayor of a suburb of Antwerp
las been ordered to deliver to the Ce''-
mans forty fat cats. Il