Contents: The Problems --- Food --- Farm Management --- Land --- Tenure --- Livestock --- Marketing --- Nonfarm Employment --- Housing and Sanitation --- Health --- Social and Educational Activities --- Emotional Difficulties --- Administrative Problems --- Appraisals --- Appendix (Table 2. – Loans and Grants Made to Noncommercial Families – Table 3. – Extent of Survey and Classification of Classes – Table 4. – Extent of Services and Improvements–1940 – Program of Work for Beltrami County Non-Commercial Project for 1940.