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
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the farm, but were not able to the farm They bought their
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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
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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 ”
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