Show I 1 farm mortgage volume rises the farm credit administration has announced that the amount of form farm mortgages going on the books a at t public record offices throughout the We country has turned slightly up ward after a five year decline farm mortgage recordings representing res inting both new borrowing and old debts re financed aggregated in 1939 it is estimated the figure is about 1 per cent higher th than anthe the estimate for 1938 the slight recent increase was due primarily to gains in financing by the federal land banks insurance companies and commercial banks the decrease during the 1834 1934 38 period resulted largely from the declining volume of federal land bank and commissioner commissio nef loans during those years most of the theother other farm mortgages lenders increased their recordings |