Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-04-12
BASIS FOR LOANS
TO FARM OWNERS
Federal Board Issues Rules for
h the Guidance of LAND
o., &c.. :
Banks. +
MANY MECHANICS ARE NEEDED

Ten Thousand Skilled Men Wanted for
Service in the Aviation Section OF
the Signal corps-New Kind OF
Bullets.
Washington. The federal farm
loan board has issued the following
rules for the guidance of the land
banks in determining what area 4Qon-
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 it 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. .E
Second, Specially.-Where through
intensive farming or the practice Of q
speciality sufficient income has been
regularly derived from a tract de-
6eient 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
a 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
90, 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 1t is
well operated, or badly operated, or
not operated at all.
Qualified men registered under the
selective service law may be indicted
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
machinists. auto mechanics, engine re-
pairmen, gunsmiths, chauffeurs, car
penters, blacksmiths, tinsmithts, sheet
S1etal workers, propeller makers,
wireless operators and constructors,
tailors, tent-makers, sail-maKers, truck
masters, vulcanizers, welders, and ex-
perts on magnetos, ignition systems,
cameras, watches, and clocks. -
Men will be sent to San Antonio,
Tex, for segregation by trades. fol-
lowed by brief course of instruction
at flying fields or factories, then or
ganized into squadrons mostly for
service overseas. Additional informa-
ton may be secured by application to
the air division. personnel department,
Washington, D. G.
The present war has brought forth
q new kind Of ammunition for airplane
use In the form of special cartridges
bullets for armor-piercing,
tracing, and incendiary purposes. All
Of these cartridges are Of the small
rife calibers, according to a statement
authorized by the war department.
The three-tenths Of an inch diameter
and short length Of the bullet left lit
tie space for the armor-piercing ele-
ment or for tracer and incendiary COM
position, but such combinations have
been matle.
The bullets developed by the United
States ordnance department have been
tested on land and from airplanes to
zee II there is any difference in their
performance when fired from a quick
~ moving airplane in the upper atmos-
phere and when fired on land. These
tests indicate that the United States
has developed class Of special
cartridges with a performance fully
equal to or surprising that attained
abroad. ~.
More than 1.6OO tons Of anthracite
coal were condemned in Pennsylvania
by representatives of the'fu
recently in the cam
paigp to compel the delivery Of clean
coal.
Following the plan adopted for CAL
lfornia aud Colorado, the food admin
|stration has appointed commission
to determine the cost Of producing
sugar beets in Nebraska. The COM
mission haS M p0Uer fO fiY nricpa