COLUMBIA — Cindy Wells likes to approve loans the old-fashioned way.

“Before we lend money to a farm, for example, we go out in our mud boots and count the cows and pigs,” said Wells, the assistant vice president for Glasgow Savings Bank in Glasgow, a Missouri River town northwest of Columbia.

It’s a practice that hasn’t changed much since the bank accepted its first deposit in 1852.

“We get to know our clients personally before we make a loan,” said Margie Aholt, vice president of the bank.

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