But, then, there are the crops; he can get money on the coming crops.

There is, too, the live stock money can be borrowed on the stock.
Here lies the secret reason of the dread of foreign cattle disease.

The increase of our flocks and herds is, of course, a patriotic cry (and founded on fact); but the secret pinch is this--if foot-and-mouth, pleuro-pneumonia, or rinderpest threaten the stock, the tenant-farmer cannot borrow on that security.

The local bankers shake their heads--three cases of rinderpest are equivalent to a reduction of 25 per cent.

in the borrowing power of the agriculturist.