INSPECTING THE SITE for a new house is one of the jobs of the Farmers Home Administration County Supervisor. Here Richard Hoover, far right goes over building plans with Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Towner, Nottingham R 2, the first “rural housing” borrowers in the county. At -far left is Robert Mumma, a student trainee in the FHA program. L. F. Photo. • Hoover (Continued trom Page 6) to FHA for an operating -loan the sons were not satisfied with to purchase some better dairy the livestock and equipment on cows end equipment to operate the farm, but were not able to the farm They bought their You can't beat it for COMBINING with • Save Corn— Has Ford’s proved corn-saving, contest winning snapping’ unit features. • Handle Bf 200-250 buJ|els per hour capacit --'ii ' ' " mV ~i ~ *"■ 1 "11 11 • Built to “take it”— Bulir*v?fth’ plenty of beef where It counts for dependable endurance in heavy yields. ... And the mare you use your combine, the quicker it’ll pay for itself. Come In and See Us for Full Details 1 Grimm's Ford | Tractor & Farm 1: Service Park A\e., Quarry ville Pli. ST 6-2397 Allen H. Motz secure a bank loan to finance their operation. They applied Elizabethtown Farmers Supply, Inc. Elizabethtown Phone 367-1341 Keener Equip. Co. Pts. 230 & 72, laincaster Phone 569-9861 Sauder Bros. ~%Ai * <*& r i'>w , :n«j <i <} *' t"' „ FOURTH CUTTING ALFALFA is making good growth on the farm of Gottlieb Strohmaier, Oxford Rl. Robert Murama, FHA trainee, left, and Richard Hoover, county FHA supervisor, center, talk over management problems with Strohmaier, an FHA patron. L. F. Photo. father’s interest in livestock says he would get married if and equipment last year and he could find a girl who plays now 'cash rent the ground from bridge and likes to milk cows hum ' , Even though both boys and They have increased their Mrs Robert Guhl are city dairy herd'to 55 Holstems and reared, all three say they love have recently started DHIA country life and want no part testing with a thought toward of city living again. improving the herd. When the At the farm of Gottlieb father acquired another farm Strohmaier, Oxford Rl, we saw nearby last year, the brothers what a young man can do with took over operation and now a mortgage and operating loan, farm about 200 acres mostly in and a housing loan to increase corn and hay for dairy cow the size of his dairy barn, feed Strohmaier came to Pennsyl- Robert, the married twin, vama from Delaware in 1958, gives much of the credit for and since that time he develop their success to the record fi d a fine herd of 55 Holstems keeping and home canning of His net worth has doubled sev his wife William, still single, eral times since then, Hoover 900 FLORIN Laying Feeds 'Are Designed For You, The Commercial Poultrymen Who Are Striving For: 1. High Consistent Production 2. Superior Egg Quality 3. Excellent Feed Conversion Low Cost PUT YOUR LAYING FLOCK ON FLORIN LA-MOR FLORIN EGG-PRODUCER Call Mount ’Joy ' ;s , 653-1451 Today and Get The Full Details Wolgemuth Bros., ■««. ,£^f r 'I t * OR MOUNT JOY, PA , V V- --s , » said. J David Shank, Conestoga R 2, took over operation of a 120 acre tobacco and dany farm last spung after Ins father, who had tenanted- the farm for 14 years, retired With an operating loan from FHA, Shank purchased equipment, some bettei cows, and begaa a program of conservation and dairy herd testing He plans, to work into a purebred Hol stein dairy held on the rented faim As we drove in the lane at Harold Key’s faim near May town, I wondered why he could possible need a loan fiom FHA. Like many otheis, I suppose, I had thought of the government piogiam m terms of marginal farmers, or farmers with limit ed farming facilities This farm, is a showplace with its beauti ful old iaimhouse, the laige, well kept bam and I tobacco shed, paved driveway and well kept lawns I learned that the farm had been in the Hoffman family for over 100 years, but when the last owner died in 1963, the faim was up foi sale Key’s fathei had farmed here since 1943, and Harold had been the tenant foi about four yeais. The hens offered the farm to Key at a good price, but he did not have the lequired down payment oi a bank loan On the recommendation of his local bank, Ney applied for and leccived a fann ownership loan trom FHA The mortgage is set up for 40 years Hoover explained, but at the late Ney is taking caie of his obliga tions, he is well on the way towaid "giaduation” to bank financing Hoover checks with each ot the borroweis seveial times- a year moie often with those who have special problems to make management sugges tions and help out with man agerial decisions Hoover came to Lancaster County fiom Norristown, wheie he was an assistant County FHA Supeivisoi, in 1958 He grew up on a faim neai Col legcville, and aftci graduation from the Pennsylvania State Univeisity with a degree in Agriculture Economics in 1950, he farmed the home place until he went! in to the army in 1954. After his two yeai hitch, he wpnt to ivork with the FHA in Norristown This cxpeimime as a ‘faime* and his college tiaimng gave Hoover a good platfoim from which to help farmcis who need a break to succeed in this business oi farming As I drove back toward my office, I thought, “This too is agnculluie ” i t ; i j i ' it I
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