Their names are scarcely seen in the money articles of the daily press.

But they do a solid business of great extent, and their names in agricultural circles are names of power.

So the old Bank here, though within an arrow shot of the green meadows, though on ordinary days a single clerk might attend to its customers, has really a valuable _clientele._ Of late years shrewd men of business discovered that the ranks of the British farmer offered a wonderful opportunity for legitimate banking.

The farmer, though he may not be rich, must of necessity be the manager, if not the actual owner, of considerable capital.

A man who farms, if only a hundred acres, must have some capital.