Snure, The New Farm Loan Act

John Snure describes the details of the Federal Farm Loan Act for readers of Successful Farming, focusing on the opportunities this new federal initiative offers to American agriculture.

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SF__Snure__The_New_Farm_Loan_Act.pdf	September 1916	John Snure

Institution: Library of Congress

Collection Name: Successful Farming

Call Number: S1 .S93

Volume Number: v. 15, n. 9

Page Number: 5, 47

Type: Agricultural Journals

Tags: 1910's, Farm Loan Associations, Farming, Federal Farm Loan Board, Joint Stock Land Banks, Land Banks, National, Woodrow Wilson

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von Engelken, on loaning to Florida orchardists

Friedrich Johannes Hugo von Engelken, President of the Federal Land Bank of Columbia, wrote Farm Loan Associations in Florida on May 18, 1917 to share their policy on loaning on orchard lands. Their policy was to loan only against the value such land held for growing staple crops, which citrus did not fall under.

Letter, Lake to Bowler, 1941

As part of their considerable correspondence, Lake writes to William Bowler of Michigan regarding his application for a loan through the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul. Lake does not believe that Bowler should incur the expense of filing another application after his previous one was denied. Lake also returns some items Bowler sent to him regarding his son winning a baking contest.

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