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rage loan for protection purposes was only $1,092, and the average loan made on farm real estate was only $2,000.
“With the pent-up demand for equipment caused by World War II apparently satisfied,” Mr. Brown said, “a larger and larger percentage of farm borrowings have been going in to other long range improvements. These improvements, along with the growing trend of Virginia farmers to practice modern conservation and land management, will assure the importance of the state in the agricultural picture for years to come.”
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