Show farmers plan greater buys in war bonds in spite of 0 an off season so far as income is concerned farm war bond leaders are now making preparations for selling more bonds to farmers during the seventh war loan than in any previous drive according to M L celej chief of the agricultural section war finance division treasury department with the help of country bankers out to convince the men who till the soil that they should convert their expanded bank accounts into bonds farmers like all americans have been building up bank deposits and currency holdings ever since the war wai started said on january 1 1920 agriculture held currency and bank barak deposits bosits de totaling slightly over ove r 4 billion dollars the 1945 figure Is not available but it Is expected to be in excess of 10 billion with larger operations and in creased costs farmers must have more operating capital than in 1940 but they dont need 10 billion in Pred mores opinion he believes farmers can and will put a substantial portion of these cash SU reserves into war bonds when they go out to sell war bonds to farmers in the seventh war finance committees throughout the nation will stress personal tation A survey made following the sixth war loan showed that 57 percent of the farmers who were personally solicited bought bonds |