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and at rates of interest more comparable with those 

 at which capital for manufacturing and trade is 

 supplied,, have all profoundly influenced the attitude 

 and practice of California money-lenders toward 

 their farming clients. Farmers have always had the 

 social good will and industrial esteem of all other 

 Californians., as has been amply suggested in preced- 

 ing chapters. To such consideration there has been 

 added recently notably fairer business attitude and 

 transaction. 



