Lanterna Rally

Author: United States Department of Agriculture

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-25

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781332928989

Excerpt from Motion Pictures of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1949 Animated cartoon of a raindrop's visit to earth. Shows the need for everyone to be informed on good watershed management practices. Raindrops, like Children, become delinquent and lawless when their welfare is neglected. The animation is supplemented with live action scenes showing contrasting results of poor and good watershed management. The message is carried in terms that any school-age group can understand. Watershed will be anew word added to the school - Child's vocabulary. The treatment of the subject - and the picture itself - Will also be of interest to adult groups. Banking ON the land. (2 reels, 16 mm., sound, in color; released 1946. 20 minutes.) Tells the story of the development of the cooperative farm mortgage credit sys tem. Ned Harper, a charter member of a local national farm loan association, recalls in his own experiences the handicaps farmers face in having only short term mortgage loans, high interest rates and renewal fees which drove farmers to insist on their own cooperative system. Ned was one of the farmers called to Washington to testify when Congress was considering the Farm Loan Act finally passed in 1916. The Act set up Federal Land Banks and made provision for farmers to organize national farm loan associations to bring long - term loans to their communities. Mr. Harper traces the development of the system to date and the service it has and is now rendering farmers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.