SHORT-TIME CREDIT FOR FARMERS. 



CHARLES P. HOLLAKD, PRESIDENT PLYMOUTH COUNTY TRUST 

 COMPANY, BROCKTON. 



This department has for its object the application of business 

 methods to the business of agriculture. We believe if the 

 farmers are lax in their methods, or are failing to use all avail- 

 able means for improving their conditions, the fault is in large 

 part with the banker. 



Acting upon this conception of the duty and opportunity for 

 community service to this most important element in every 

 community, the Plymouth County Trust Company has for the 

 past three years employed two young men, graduates of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, for the purpose of studying 

 the needs of the farmers in our city and vicinity, presenting 

 these needs to the directors of the bank, and so preparing the 

 way for intelligent and business-like application of credits to 

 the solution of their problems. 



The following report of the agricultural agent to the directors 

 shows in outline the result of our endeavor for two years : — 



Visits made, 2,166 



Office calls, 2,586 



Telephone calls, 1,870 



Letters written, 2,643 



Miles traveled by autos, 35,315 



Meetings addressed, 87 



Approximate audiences at meetings, 2,942 



We have brought into the city 24 cars of grain, 29 cars of 

 hay, 11 cars of cows (300 head, worth approximately $55,200), 

 2 pure-bred bulls, distributed around 1,000 pigs, and exhibited 

 last year 41 pigs and 7 cows at the Brockton Fair, and 4 pigs 

 at the National Dairy Show at Springfield. 



