Principles of agricultural credit / Virgil P. Lee.

Preface, v -- I. The importance of credit in agriculture, 1 -- Part I. The investor, 17 -- II. Sources of credit, 17 -- III. The direction of the flow of credit, 34 -- Part II. The borrower, 49 -- IV. Investment credit, 49 -- V. Operating credit, 65 -- VI. Consumption credit, 79 -- VII. Security for farm credit, 87 -- VIII. Appraisal of security for operating loans, 105 -- IX. Appraisal of' security for long-term loans, 126 -- X. Forms and legal aspects of farm security, 144 -- Part III. Banking institutions, 161 -- XI. Development of credit institutions for farmers, 161 -- XII. The commercial, bank and farm loans, 190 -- XIII. Farm-mortgage banks, 209 -- XIV. Intermediate-credit banking institutions, 240 -- Part IV. The cost of credit, 273 -- XV. Banking costs and the interest rate, 273 -- XVI. Other factors affecting the interest rate, 301 -- Part V. Government and agricultural credit, 325 -- XVII. General regulation of money and credit, 325 -- XVIII. Supervision of commercial banks, 332 -- XIX. Government and the federal farm-loan system, 361 -- Index, 391.