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annual farm lending survey of the Agricultural Commission of the American Bankers Association, Mr. Brown noted that banks were by far the largest lehders to the state’s farmers during the year. On December 31, 1953, Virginia banks had loans totaling $69,804GOO outstanding to farmers; while insurance companies, the financial agencies with the second largest amount of farm loans outstanding held only $15,643,^00 -at the same
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