84—Lancaster farming, Saturday. January 29,1983
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Bisser
Wintertime is a wonderful time
to look at pictures that were taken
in the summer or spring. It really
doesn’t even matter if they were
recent snapshots as sometimes the
older ones are the most in
teresting. I've sorted mine into
different years and now share
them with the grandchildren.
When I re-examine the recent
Christmas photos of our family, it
is just like reliving the experiences
of all being together again. My
children all own cameras and
some have several expensive
models. They’ve even taken
courses in photography and en
tered some in contests and won
prizes.
My talent is lacking in that area
as I have trouble placing a group of
people in the center of a picture.
My favorite subjects are my
flowers and plants. At this time of
year, I enjoy looking at last years’s
flower beds. Tber
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were taken in our woodlands.
My great uncle was quite in
terested in many areas and so he
traveled all over thq county taking
pictures of all the covered bridges,
historic buildings in Lancaster
city, plus banks and hotels in the
villages of our county.
I believe he faust have been
given a camera as a child as many
of his pictures are brown and
yellow from age. There are pic
tures taken indoors of his family
and pets which I think is unusual
for that time. Some include men
working in the fields, his own
personal horse and the machinery
used in the 1800 s.
Recently I was able to share
some of these with a professor who
is publishing a pictorial history of
the Pa. Dutch Country. They in
cluded an old car, a steam engine,
wheat binder, distillery and a Civil
War gun mill.
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DALLAS, Tx.—lnterest rates for
loan programs of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Farmers Home Administration
dropped again on Monday,
reported Secretary of Agriculture
John R. Block.
“These lower interest rates,
which apply to most loans made by
the USDA farm credit agency, will
be of great benefit to the rural
economy and particularly for the
nation’s fanners who depend
heavily on credit,” Block said.
It is the third such reduction
since October 1962 by the agency,
which makes farm, home and
other loans to rural residents and
communities who cannot get credit
from private lenders.
Block said the reductions are
possible because of a general move
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because of lower costs of federal
borrowing.
Interest rates for farm operating
loans, used to finance annual costs
of production, dropped from 11.5 to
10.25 percent.
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Farm ownership rates dropped
from 11.5 to 10.75 percent.
Interest rates for “limited
resource” borrowers—those
unable to afford the full interest
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operating loans to 7.25 percent.
Limited resource farm ownership
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loans due to natural disasters
remains at 8 percent for those
fanners unable to get credit from
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can obtain natural disaster loans
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. The interest rate for production
loans to farmers who need
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are unable to get credit elsewhere
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