Excerpt from Farm-Mortgage Lending Experience of Twenty-Three Life Insurance Companies, the Federal Land Banks, and the Farmer's Home Administration, April Through June 1958 The 2 - year decline in farm-mortgage lending may have been reversed in the second quarter of 1958. Farm-mortgage commitments of 16 life insurance companies in that quarter were 16 percent higher in amount than in the second quarter of 1957 (table and the number of loans closed and the amount of new money loaned by the Federal land banks in June, July, and August were higher than a year earlier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.