The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-12-15
FUNCTIONS OF FARM
SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

Security administrator is I'll,
administrative ioanIng, lnveSCl'
eating, ana ADVISORY agency op'
eefatllIg With the COUNTY unue.
the supervision, rules and reg
.uIatiOnS of the United State!
department or Agriculture.
The Farm Security admins.
ttratlon is endeavor-ng to aSS.sJ
sail needy farmers TO a se4I-Sup-
porting paSlS by financial guld-
ance. This WILL transform re-
lief famIlleS ana U.llerS Wnt
cannot secure credit to operate
farms from liabilities to nation
al assets.
Several plans + being fol-
lowed by the rarm Security ad-
minIStratlon. One Is assisting
farmers living on Sub-marsmal
land which never would provide
an adequate standard OF LIVING
Tracts of land ~ to l2O acres
were purchased on which homes
and farm buildings were con-
Structed. These families are as
sisted by PROJECT managers and
project home supervisors to car
ny out a farm and home pro-
gram that will make them self
reliant. An example of this pro-
cedure is the Fairfield project
in Cascade county, which is as
S.Sting approximately $50 faml-
lies.
Rehabilitation consists f
making loans by the Farm Sc
.curity administration to farm
families who cannot obtain
credit from any other source
as banks production credit as
Soc.ationS or other lending ag-
encieS and backing this money
with enough training in home
management and sound farm
practices to insure the best pos
Slble reSulaS. This is the form
OF assistance carried on in this
county W tn seventy families.
Another procedure, to halt
increasing tenancy is the ten
ant purchase program provided
under the BaIlkh5ad-Jones Act.
Farm tenants. Share-cropperS or
farm laborers are selected in
counties where the largest per-
centage of tenancy prevails and
granted loans with which to
buy farms of their own. These
may be leased farms they are
now occupying or other farms
appraised by the county Advis-
DRY Committee with the assist
ance of the Farm Security. This
type of assistance is now in
operation in saltwater and Pom
dera counties of Montana.
Through the cooperative SER
vice many farmers are able to
use high priced machinery and
sires which they could not fl
nance alone. "A state farm COOP
erative specialist with head
quarters at Bozeman is avail
able to assist in organization
and other problems pertaining
to cooperative groups.
Another branch is the Farm
Debt Adjustment Committee
assisted by the Farm Security
county. supervisor. Meetings are
arranged bet zen the farmer
and Their creditors for the pur-
pose of adjusting excessive
debts to a figure that is within
The ability OF a farmer to pay.
Recommendation made by the
Committee is purely voluntary
ton the part of Doth farmer and
his creditors.
In making a Farm Security
admin. Stration loan the indi-
widual needs must be deter
mined, character, and expert
tence OF prospects reviewed, soil
conditions and past farming OPP
erat1onS must be analysed be-
fore a future farm plan can be
worked out that will enable the
farm family to rehabilitate it
self and take its place in the
community. When a farm plan
Is completed the money must be
spent in accordance with the
plan: Repayment is made &C
cordlng to the farmers ability
TO pay and may run five years
at live per cent interest.
The personnel in the local
county office is Guy J. Millegan,
county rural rehab. litation sup
ferVlsor, Ruth Kittams, home
management supervisor and Al
ma Hanson, office secretary.
They are assisted in approval of
loans and adjustment of debts
BY the county Advisory RR
committee and Farm Debt Ad-
Justment Committee. The three
members of this joint commit
tee are j. A. Koebbe, chairman.
e. H. McCarty, and George Mil
Ter.
Offices located in the Big
Horn county court house are
furnished for the Farm Secur-
lily administration by the board
,of county commissioners of Big
Horn county.