Excerpt from Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Vol. 255: Agricultural Finance in MassachusettsAnother debt or credit condition receiving wide attention is high interest rate. This may take the form of higher prices for goods to be paid for in the future or actual high interest payments charged by finance companies. When a number of such cases are known, they soon appear as the general rule.A third condition of farming is the Small amount of money earned by many farmers. One reason given for this is the high cost of money borrowed by farm ers. Low income is not often, however, interpreted as the reason why large debts occur on many farms. More often the credit institutions are thought to be working incorrectly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.