EASY TERMS 



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be made as easy financially as possible, and that 

 later on, when he is well estabhshed, he should be 

 encouraged to pay off his outstanding indebtedness 

 as soon as possible. 



No. 19. Diagram showing Head of CATTLE 

 PER 1000 OF Population in the United 

 Kingdom and Seven other Countries ^ 



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We are told that stock-keeping is the "sheet-anchor of British 

 farming-." This diagram, together with Nos. 20 and 21, shows 

 our position as a stock-keeping country, as comi)ared with that 

 of other countries. 



In this respect we might learn a lesson from 

 Sweden. There the practice is to charge interest 

 at the rate of 36 per cent on the total expenditure 

 per holding (including working capital), during the 



^ Board of Agriculture Statistics, 191 2. 



