Bankruptcies Among Farmers

USDA compilation of bankruptcy rates among farmers, listed by region and state, for each fiscal year, 1910-1930 (through June 30, 1930). Measures total number of farm bankruptcies, farmers' percentage of total bankruptcies.

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Bankruptcies_among_farmers__YOA__1931.pdf	6/30/1930	USDA Bureau of Agricultural Economics

Institution: U. S. Department of Agriculture

Collection Name: Yearbook of Agriculture

Call Number: S21 Un31y 1931

Type: Reports

Tags: 1910's, 1920's, Calvin Coolidge, Department of Agriculture, East North Central, East South Central, Farming, Finance, Herbert Hoover, Middle Atlantic, Mountain, New England, Pacific, South Atlantic, Warren G. Harding, West North Central, West South Central, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson

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Rates of Loan Rejection across the twelve Federal Land Banks, 1920

Secretary of the Farm Loan Board, W. W. Flannagan, wrote the President of the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore Vulosko Vaiden on May 18, 1920 regarding the variation in loans approved/rejected among the twelve Land Banks. The Federal Land Bank of Berkeley had the highest rejection rate, at 57%. The Wichita, St. Louis, St. Paul and Springfield Land Banks followed with rates in the 40-50% range.

Negro Year Book of the Tuskegee Institute, a request for statistics

Farm Loan Board member Herbert Quick wrote the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore on November 14, 1918 regarding a request from the editor of the Negro Year Book of Tusgekee Institute, to supply them with statistics on “negro farmers” in the Federal Land Bank System.

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