The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14

service, the bureau of agricultural
economies, and other agricultural
agencies, county FSA supervisors
are encouraging and assisting ten
ants and landlords to draw up
better leases.
Emphasis is placed on long term
or renewable contracts and on
agreements which will encourage
the tenant to protect the soil and
improve the property. Flexible
farm lease forms have been pre-
pared and are obtainable without
cost at every county Office.
Separate figures for the south
eastern counties are not available
but for North Carolina, to January
l., 5,7O9 tenants farming under tpe
FSA program already had secured
written leases to replace verbal
agreements with landowners, and
!, TAI sharecroppers have advanced
to tenant status.
Six Projects
Located in these southeastern
counties, in whole or in part, are
three of the six resettlement pro-
jects, which have been developed,
or taken over, by the Farm Sc
curity administration in this state.
These are: Penderlea homesteads
in Fender county, Pembroke farms
in Robson, and N. c. tenant Sc
curity farms, scattered in Samp-
son, Harnett, and Johnston coun-
ties.
These projects were started be-
fore the tenant-purchase program
was begun and provided work dur
ing the depression for the unem-
ployed. They are largely expert
mental, constituting living labora-
tories from which patterns of rural
society and farm life can be adapt
ed to the needs of the people.
On these projects 275 families
have found homes. Like other FSA
borrowers, they too have started
~long-range farm improvement pro-
grams and r borrowing from the
FSA for farming equipment and
farming operations under the SUI
pervised credit plan.
Like stones which start a ripple,
these patterns in better housing
and better farming constitute the
beginning of an ever widening In
terest in better farm homes and
better farm homes.
1t is difficult to measure the ex'
tent of the influence, but since the
projects have been developed ano
since the tenant-purchase houses
have begun to show their white
faces here and there about the
countryside there is already evi
dence of gradually increasing gen
eral interest in better rural homes
more painted houses than he founc
If one travels the roads he finds
a few years ago and if he will
inquire he will find they r no
all built with government loans
Farmers in Southeastern NORTH
Carolina may apply for FSA loans
and services at the following
places in their respective coun
ties:
County Offices
Bladen, Julian F. Keith, county
supervisor, courthouse, Elizabeth
town; Brunswick and New Han
over, William M. CHM, county SUI
pervisor, postoffce building, Will
mington; Columbus, Charles D
PickerreIl. county supervisor, ole
Jail building, Whiteville; Cumber'
land, William T. Proctor, county
supervisor, 405 Stein building, Fay
etteville.
Duplin, Charlie j. Marshburn.
county supervisor, courthouse an
mex building, Kenansville; Onslow.
T. Newton Cook, county supervisor,
agriculture building, Jacksonville;
Fender, Paul F. Edmond, county
supervisor, courthouse, Burgaw;
Robeson, William E. Bullock, coun'
ty supervisor, postoffce building,
Lumberton.
Sampson, Leslie A. Edwards,
county supervisor, Henry Vanr
building, Clinton; Pembroke
Farms, H.. c. Green, community
manager, Pembroke; Penderlea
Farms, w. H. Robbins, community
manager, Burgaw; and N. c. Ten
ant Security Farms, farms II
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