2 BULLETIN 1048, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
AMOUNT OF PERSONAL AND COLLATERAL BANK LOANS TO FARMERS. 
The reported amount of bank loans to farmers on personal and 
collateral security, as well as the estimated total amount of such 
loans outstanding for all banks on December 31, 1920, will be found 
in Table 1. Figures are given for States and geographic divisions, 
as well as for the United States as a whole. The table also shows the 
extent to which the banks of the country replied to the questionnaire, 
and the percentage that the estimated short-time loans to farmers 
constitute of the total loans and discounts of the banks as given in 
the latest available report of the Comptroller of the Currency. 
Table 1. — Personal and collateral bank loans to farmers outstanding Dec. 31, 1920, 
by States. 
Geographic division and State. 
Total 
number 
of banks 
(Comp- 
troller's 
report). 
Number 
of banks 
report- 
ing. 
Number 
report- 
ing farm 
loans. 
Amount 
reported. 
Estimated 
amount for 
all banks. 
Per cent 
of banks' 
total 
loans 
and dis- 
counts. 
United States 
30, 178 
13, 540 
10, 261 
$1,586,536,310 
$3,869,891,415 
13.29 
1,129 
661 
296 
11, 893, 052 
26,941,166 
.92 
Maine 
New Hampshire 
Vermont 
Massachusetts 
161 
126 
108 
466 
48 
220 
82 
51 
41 
335 
33 
119 
50 
36 
34 
109 
8 
59 
2, 862, 905 
956, 827 
3,944,688 
2,526,033 
91,471 
1,511,128 
6, 515, 518 
1,949,027 
12, 493, 623 
3,270,017 
188, 089 
2, 524, 892 
4.69 
1.96 
9.89 
.17 
.10 
.63 
Connecticut 
3,009 
1,709 
787 
71, 724, 400 
105, 805, 377 
New York : 
1,063 
393 
1,553 
620 
251 
838 
319 
76 
392 
36,603,418 
6,463,992 
28,656,990 
52,002,471 
16,369,101 
38, 434, 805 
75 
New Jersey 
2 87 
1 75 
East North Central 
5,507 
2,645 
2,103 
300,259,595 
656,326,611 
12 38 
Ohio 
Indiana 
Illinois 
Michigan 
Wisconsin 
1,153 
1,056 
1,617 
704 
977 
544 
509 
798 
345 
449 
414 
434 
592 
266 
397 
48,993,665 
64, 402, 727 
97,904,600 
37,355,710 
51, 602, 893 
106,983,846 
127,910,904 
253,967,783 
50,630,088 
116,833,990 
7.4S 
23.19 
11.93 
8.03 
20.83 
West North Central 
9,086 
3,726 
3,236 
594,737,791 
1,562,987,613 
40.77 
1,524 
1,762 
1,649 
897 
694 
1,195 
1,365 
660 
699 
598 
395 
303 
475 
596 
564 
591 
493 
361 
261 
423 
543 
100, 155, 871 
152,301,415 
65,199,671 
49,879,816 
55,881,624 
81,778,750 
89,540,644 
235,078,342 
400,816,955 
211,059,938 
118,920,813 
154,311,092 
204,389,176 
238,411,297 
30.87 
Iowa 
Missouri 
44.68 
22.32 
62.58 
67.98 
Nebraska 
Kansas 
49.21 
60.07 
3,294 
1,312 
953 
117,186,072 
313,184,956 
14 34 
46 
282 
45 
490 
341 
623 
461 
739 
267 
23 
123 
21 
179 
128 
172 
233 
350 
83 
18 
71 
2 
128 
70 
124 
192 
291 
57 
1,773,485 
' 9,494,333 
57,000 
18, 115, 857 
5,127,875 
10,528,270 
29,099,462 
38,701,550 
4,288,240 
3,438,537 
17,913,727 
537,820 
52,701,208 
15,663,408 
61,026,032 
67, 413, 772 
83,986,661 
10, 503, 791 
7.89 
5.45 
District of Columbia 
.46 
13.36 
6.44 
19.24 
28.93 
22.45 
Florida 
7.83 
1,840 
881 
714 
74,646,549 
185,981,673 
19.93 
583 
546 
356 
355 
188 
320 
191 
182 
148 
251 
163 
152 
20,855.446 
20,823,722 
18,859,715 
14,107,666 
61, 201, 963 
45,725,307 
40,424,370 
38,630,033 
20.70 
15.57 
22.46 
23.58 
