The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-07-19
GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATE s LIFTS FARMERS FROM
! SLOUGH OF DEFEAT IN new DAKOTA AGRICULTURE PLAN
Soil Tillers Get Chance to
Work Save and Pur- As
chase Land
o. NFA Service

Nv NEA Service
PIERRE, S. OAK, July 10
Farmers who have fought a losing
svs-vaar battle against drouth,
wind grasshoppers and chineh
hugs are going to get another
chance TO win,
The federal and state govern
u,on-s have Joined forces in using
err means of giving distressed
:ornerS a chance to begin again.
First. the buying up of large
.-octs of poor farmland which
doesn't now yield living.
second. giving the farmers
whose land has been bought, or
otbers who have never owned
land a chance to rent or buy on
tsr,,s a better farm on which to
begin again.
Third establishment of a rural
Qualification camp. where fam
lies can earn a little more than
living. saving and training for
mo time when they can qualify
i,r farm Of their own.
Fourth. establishment of tran
siert camps for single men to
sslyaye fallen timber in state
forests and provide the lumber
for the new or improved homes
that will give the farmers their
new start.
TESTING GROUND FOR PLAN
South Dakota is ahead of some
farming states in these plans to
give the farmer a new start be-
cause here the need was greater
and the conditions more favor
able. But other states are ex-
pected soon to follow the lines
new being laid down here.
First comes the buying up of
moor lands. water and dust
eroded, and returning them to
me grazing for which they are
better fitted. No farmer need sell,
4 but when those making up a large
4 tract all agree to do so, the land
q is bought in a block, later to be
leased for grazing by the govern
\ menr under supervised conditions.
The farmer whose land is bought
Is free to do as he pleases. If he
wants to 90 on farming, the gov
eminent will help him get started
Il on a new farm better than the one
n he left. South Dakota has $500
y farms which it took over from
4 farmers who could not repay
loans from the state rural credits
department.. In the course of turn
ing them back to other farmers,
$500 farm homes are to be fixed
up. and 1000 new ones built.
TRANSIENT CAMPS OPENED
In building and fixing up these
farm homes another side of the
relief problem comes into play.
Eight transient camps for single
men are to be established in the
national forests of western South
Dakota. Workers will salvage fall
len timber which lies, already sea-
soned, on the ground. and this will
make lumber for the new homes.
Workers in the camps will
work 33 hours a week for food,
clothing and lodging, with the
privilege of working three addi-
tional hours at 80 cents an hour
for cash.
But still more novel is the ex-
pertinent being conducted on the
site Of the old Mennonite colony
known as GAINESVILLE, near Yank-
ton S. D. Here 20 families are
living in the first Rural Rehabili-
tatiOn camp.
SAVE TO ACQUIRE FARMS
Applicants must be people who
d have lost their farms, or who have
never been able to acquire them,
but who are ambitious to do so.
They get food, shelter, clothing,
work and education. Heads of
families work for 80 cents an
hour and get their provisions from