Agricultural Economics Department Records

Agricultural Economics Department Records, 1912-1949

Overview of the Collection

Title: Agricultural Economics Department Records
Dates: 1912-1949 (inclusive)
19121949
Quantity: 56.4 linear feet
Collection Number: MSU.00002
Summary: The Agricultural Economics Department Records are an extensive set of files consisting of correspondence, administration files, faculty files, and Fairway Farms Corporation records. The records span the years 1912-1949.
Repository: Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.
Languages
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The roots of the Agricultural Economics Department at Montana State University reach back to the Farm Management program in 1913. Classes in the beginning stages were instructed by E. L Currier, whose main priority was teaching basic accounting principles to working farmers after these practices were found to be deficient. With the passage of the Purnell Act in 1925, the college was granted much needed funds to begin a curriculum focusing on the agricultural economics field. Director Linfield dismantled the Farm Management Department and put this new field under the wing of the Experiment Station. Although M. L. Wilson was named its first head, actual leadership came from former M. S. C. president James Hamilton while Wilson finished up his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. Once Mr. Wilson took charge of the department in 1925, he was not an instructor but a researcher with the Experiment Station. His projects in collaboration with E. A. Starch deal with transforming dry farming and making agriculture more profitable. Their main focus dealt with the "Fairway Farms project." This farming revolution was based on the premise that through technological innovation and economic principles dry farming could be operated like a cooperative business. They also delved into mechanization, first through "Big Teams" where a large line of horses would pull large implements; then with the study of how motorized implements could increase output. When Wilson left the University to take a post within the Roosevelt administration, E. A. Starch took over as Head of the Department in 1933. While classes were offered in the field of Agricultural Economics from the Department's inception, it was not until the early 1930's that an undergraduate degree was offered in this field. In 1936, Dr. Roland Renne became head of the department, signaling a shift from a research-based focus to educational based one. Along with the undergraduate degree, a Master's course was adopted in 1937. When Dr. Renne became President of the University in 1943, R. B. Tootell became the new acting head for three years. After the departure of Dr. Tootell, Robert Eckert returned from his graduate work at Ohio State University to lead the Agricultural Economics department through 1949.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Agricultural Economics Department Records are an extensive set of files that document the department's administration, faculty, and research initiatives. Series 1-5 concern the papers and correspondence of E. L. Currier and M.L. Wilson, followed by those of each of the Department heads through 1949. These records document the overall administration of the department, but the files do not follow any alpha-numeric order within each box. Series 6 and Series 7 are the files of individual members of the department faculty or the Extension Service, with subdivisions based on individual name or staff position held. Series 8 concerns the origin, operation, and reports pertaining to the Fairway Farms corporation and its individual farms. The numerous subdivisions in this series pertain to functional or individual farm topics. The last identified series consists of a miscellaneous batch of files retrieved from a closet in M. L. Wilson's office and are mostly, but not entirely, concerned with the Fairway Farms Corporation.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Series 1 Currier/Wilson Administration files, 1916-1934

Subseries 1 - E. L. Currier files (Original Series C), 1916-1925

Subseries 2 - General Departmental Correspondence (Original Series CA), 1924-1933

Subseries 3 - Instructional Activities of the Department (Original Series CB), 1927-1932

Subseries 4 - Research and Extension Activities (Original Series CC), 1926-1937

Subseries 5 - Farm Relief Files (Original Series CD), 1925-1933

Subseries 6 - Miscellaneous Wilson Files (Original Series CE), 1926-1933

Series 2 E. A. Starch Administration Files, 1912-1941

Subseries 1 - General Departmental Correspondence (Original Series CF)

Subseries 2 - Agricultural Adjustment Administration (Original Series CG), 1933-1935

Subseries 3 - Land Use Planning (Original Series CH), 1933-1935

Subseries 4 - Sub-Marginal Lands (Original Series CJ), 1933-1935

Subseries 5 - Agricultural Statistics (Original Series CK), 1933-1936

Series 3 R.R. Renne Administration Files, 1934-1943

Subseries 1 - General Departmental Records (Original Series CL), 1934-1943

Subseries 2 - Miscellaneous files (Original Series CM), 1936-1943

Subseries 3 - Agricultural and Economic Conditions (Original Series CN), 1930s-1940s

Subseries 4 - Public Finance, Taxation and Land (Original Series CP), 1930s-1940s

Subseries 5 - Special Project (Original Series CQ), 1930s-1940s

Series 4 Robert B. Tootell Administration Files, 1943-1945

Series 5 Robert S. Eckert Administration Files, 1945-1949

Series 6 Individual Agricultural Economics Faculty Member Files, 1925-1943

Subseries 1 - E. J. Bell (Original Series DBE), 1925-1930

Subseries 2 - G. H. Craig, 1940-1943 (Original Series DCR)

Subseries 3 - S. E. Johnson (Original Series DJO), 1926-1929

Subseries 4 - O. A. Parsons (Original Series DPA), 1939-1943

Subseries 5 - R. R. Renne (Original Series DRE), 1930-1935

Subseries 6 - M. Saunderson (Original Series DSA), 1931-1938

Subseries 7 - P. L. Slagsvold (Original Series DSL), 1929-1936

Subseries 8 - E. A. Starch (Original Series DST), 1930-1932

Series 7 Individual Extension Service Faculty Member Files, 1955-1943

Subseries 1 - Extension Director F. S. Cooley (Original Series EA), 1915-1917

Subseries 2 - County Agent Leader, Wilson, M. L. (Original Series EB), 1913-1919

Subseries 3 - Farm Management Demonstrator, Chase, F. J. (Original Series FFA), 1916-1918

Subseries 4 - Farm Management Demonstrator, Copeland, A. J. (Original FFB), 1918-1921

Subseries 5 - Extension Economist, Wilson, M. L. (Original Series FFC), 1922-1924

Subseries 6 - Farm Management Demonstrator, Gilman, V. D. (Original Series FFD), 1924-1927

Subseries 7 - Farm Management Demonstrator, Alvord, Ben F. (Original Series FFE), 1927-1928

Subseries 8 - Farm Management Demonstrator, Gilman, V. D. (Original Series FFF), 1929-1931

Subseries 9 - Farm Management Demonstrator - Goth, Austin (Original Series FFJ), 1934-1935

Subseries 10 - Farm Management Demonstrator, Howard, Clyde, 1936-1937 (Original FFK)

Subseries 11 - Extension Economist, Carpenter, Paul (Original Series FGD), 1929-1934

Subseries 12 - Extension Economist, Lamphere, Willard (Original Series FGL), 1939-1940

Subseries 13 - Extension Land Economist, Tootell, R. E. (Original Series FLA), 1932-1934

Subseries 14 - Extension Land Economist, Bolster, H. G. (Original Series FLE), 1935-1941

Subseries 15 - Marketing Specialist, Beers, W. L. (Original Series FMB), 1916-1919

Subseries 16 - Marketing Specialist, Conner, C. C. (Original Series FMC), 1930-1933

Subseries 17 - Statistician, Patton, S. (Original Series FST), 1925-1927

Subseries 18 - State B. A. E. Representative, Haight, R. B. (Original Series GA), 1937-1942

Series 8 Fairway Farms Corporation Records, 1924-1943

Subseries 1 - Corporation Organization (Original Series SA)

Subseries 2 - Financial Matters and Taxation (Original Series SB and SC)

Subseries 3 - Publicity (Original Series SD)

Subseries 4 - Reports on Research and Farming Activities (Original Series SE)

Subseries 5 - Extension-Type Activities (Original Series SF)

Subseries 6 - Special Correspondence with Cooperators (Original Series SG)

Subseries 7 - Organizations, General (Original Series SH)

Subseries 8 - Rockefeller Foundation (Original Series SI)

Subseries 9 - Board of Directors, Individual Correspondence, etc. (Original Series SJ)

Subseries 10 - H. C. Taylor and Farm Foundation Correspondence (Original Series SK)

Subseries 11 - Miscellaneous Individual Correspondence (Original Series SL)

Subseries 12 - Purchases and Loans (Original Series SM, SN, SO)

Subseries 13 - Wheat and Seed Sales and Livestock (Original Series SP and SQ)

Subseries 14 - Indian Lands (Original Series SR)

Subseries 15 - Cloverleaf Farm (Original Series SS-1)

Subseries 16 - Comanche Farm (Original Series SS-2)

Subseries 17 - Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton (Original Series SS-3)

Subseries 18 - Richland Farm (Original Series SS-4)

Subseries 19 - Rosebud Farm (Original Series SS-5)

Subseries 20 - Taiyan Farm (Original Series SS-6)

Subseries 21 - Wiota Farm (Original Series SS-7)

Subseries 22 - Woanlo Farm (Original Series SS-8)

Subseries 23 - Yanktonai (Cartee-Bureau) Farm (Original Series SS-90)

Subseries 24 - Farm Account Books and Misc. Financial Statistics (Original Series ST, SV, R)

Series 9 Miscellaneous Records

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2009 April 28

Processing Note

When the collection was first transferred to the MSU University Archives, files were kept in their original order and inventoried by two separate numbering systems. The original file system used a system based on a letter code, followed by F and a number. At some point another system (using a red typewriter ribbon) was added, overlaying the original system but indicating how many folders were used to hold one of the original breakdowns (for example, C F2 became A-2 and A-3). To assist researchers, a comprehensive subject index was created that referred back to the alphabetic/numeric filing system, but its use was complicated by the inventory's lack of identifying in which of the 46 boxes individual files could be found. In 2002, the collection was renumbered according to a simple sequential box and folder number configuration.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

1: Currier/Wilson Administration files, 1916-1934Return to Top

The files in this series concern the administration of the Agricultural Economics department in a wide variety of activities which correspond roughly to the periods of oversight by E.L. Currier and M. L. Wilson. There is no apparent order to these files, although six separate subseries appear to be the intent of the original system. These subseries are papers created or collected by E. L. Currier, General Departmental Correspondence, Instructional Activities, Research and Extension Activities, Farm Relief Files, and Correspondence, and Miscellaneous Wilson Files. In all cases, the subseries titles have retained the original alphabetic designation for their grouping to assist those researchers following earlier citations to this collection. Researchers are reminded that these divisions are entirely artificial and do not necessarily follow the exact chronological divisions of Currier and Wilson's respective administrative periods.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		1: E. L. Currier files (Original Series C)	1916-1925
Box	Folder
1	1	General and miscellaneous correspondence.	1917-1925
1	2-3	Departmental organization and routine, staff & staff changes	1916-1919, 1920-1925
1	4	Budgets - inclusive	1916-1924
1	5	Teaching activities of the department	1917-1925
1	6	Farm & home week	1923
1	7	High school farm management & accounting courses	1917-1923
1	8	County agent farm management & accounting courses	1921-1924
1	9	Correspondence with county agents & others re: use, by farmers of account books & other such records	1916-1924
1	11-10	Publication & distribution of farm account books	1917-1918, 1919-1922
1	12-15	Correspondence with individual farmers re: farm records, cost accounting method, income tax, etc.	1919-1920, 1921-1923
1	16	Farm accounting textbook - N. J. Lennes & Currier	1920-1924
1	17	Settlement problems in correspondence with prospective settlers	1916-1924
1	18	Miscellaneous correspondence re: requests for general agricultural information	1917-1925
1	19-20	Miscellaneous correspondence re: advice to farmers on specific problems	1917-1919, 1920-1925
1	21-22	Advice to farmers re: farm managers, profit-sharing, rental systems, bases, etc.	1917-1920, 1921-1925
1	23	Farm labor problems	1917-1919
1	24	Farm labor problems - individual requests for work	1917-1920
1	25	Survey & investigational work (personal & misc.)	1917-1924
1	26	School survey
1	27	Farm labor & agricultural survey	1918
1	28	Dry-land farm - success surveys (Triangle & Daniels & Sheridan Co.)
1	29	Sugar beet problems	1919-1926
1	30	Farm enterprise survey - Yellowstone Valley (sugar beets)	1917-1918
1	31	Farm reorganization & development project	1924
1	32	Cost of production studies & data (general & misc. correspondence)	1917-1925
1	33	Montana - USDA - co-op. cost accounting project	1919-1925
1	34	Farm income & investment studies - including data on prices for agricultural products	1917-1923
1	35	Economy of wheat production (cost of wheat studies & other data)	1917-1924
1	36	Tariff wheat survey - tariff commission correspondence	1923-1924
1	37	Farm Organization Committee - Spring Wheat Regional Conference	1923
1	38	Co-op. marketing	1924
1	39	Corn production & utilization study	1924-1925
1	40	Dairy farming in Montana	1922-1924
1	41	Beef cattle study	1925
1	42	Hog production 1924
1	43	Bitter Root [sic] Valley Farm Management & Dairy Products Survey	1922-1924
2	1	Horse power and farm mechanization studies	1917-1925
2	2	Montana Rabbit Breeders Association	1919-1924
2	3	Fox Farming	1921-1925
2	4	Model farm exhibits	1918-1924
2	5	Montana Farm Management Association	1919-1921
2	6	University Funds Campaign	1920
		2: General Departmental Correspondence (Original Series CA) This subseries seems to be concerned more with the general business of the College of Agriculture and the Agricultural Economics Department, although there is correspondence from the Extension Service as well. The files appear to break into a number of groups including Departmental Routine; Individual Non-Departmental Correspondence; Staff Correspondence; and Extension Service Correspondence. Some of the individuals with folders in this series also have correspondence in other series in the records.	1924-1933
Box	Folder
2	7	Departmental Routine	1926-1927
2	8	Budgets	1924-1934
2	9	Prints and Films	1927-1932
2	10	Chancellor M. A. Branson	1928-1933
2	11	President Alfred Atkinson	1926-1932
2	12	Director F. B. Linfield	1925-1932
2	13	Robert C. Line, State University, Missoula	1928-1932
2	14	Staff, General	1925-1932
2	15	Bell, E. J., Jr.	1926-1931
2	16	E. L. Currier	1926-1931
2	17	Gordon Davis	1926-1927
2	18	Walter Griffith	1930
2	19	Ray B. Haight	1930-1932
2	20	Sherman Johnson	1926-1930
2	21	E. H. Lott	1925-1930
2	22	Palmer Patton	1925-1930
2	23	R. R. Renne	1930-1932
2	24	M. H. Saunderson	1927-1933
2	25	P. L. Slagsvold	1926-1933
2	26	E. A. Starch	1926-1933
2	27	Henry Stippler	1930-1933
2	28	N. Wallen	1930-1932
2	29	Henry A. Ward	1930-1932
2	30	J. C. Taylor, Director of Extension	1925-1932
2	31	Fred Bennion, County Agent Leader	1927-1932
2	32	County Agents, General and miscellaneous correspondence	1927-1932
2	33	Extension Agronomists - L. D. Kurtz, Waldo Kidder, and A. J. Ogaard	1927-1930
2	34	Extension Economist - Paul Carpenter	1928-1932
2	35	Farm Management Demonstrator - Ben F. Alvord	1927-1930
2	36	Farm Management Demonstrator - Virgil D. Gilman	1926-1932
2	37	Farm Management Demonstrator - Carl Peterson	1930-1932
2	38	Farm Management Demonstrator - Robert Tootell	1928-1940
2	39	Marketing Specialist - C. C. Conser	1929-1932
2	40	Branch Station Correspondence	1928-1930
		3: Instructional Activities of the Department (Original Series CB)	1927-1932
Box	Folder
2	41	Teaching
2	42	Epsilon Sigma Phi	1927-1932
		4: Research and Extension Activities (Original Series CC) This rather large subseries deals with a number of topics related to the fields of research and the activities of the Extension Service. Coverage here is very broad, and includes the following topics: Settlement; Agricultural Research (General Considerations); Farm Management; Irrigation; Flax Investigations; Cattle, Sheep, Livestock; and Miscellaneous. Many of the topics covered in this series are cross-indexed in the original inventory to other files within this (and other) series. In all cases these original notes ("O.N.") have been preserved, with the references corrected to match the new file system.	1926-1937
Box	Folder
2	43	Settlement promotion	1929-1930
2	44	Land Colonization Association, Canada	1927-1932
2	45	Chicago Milwaukee Railroad, Agricultural Development	1926-1933
2	46	Great Northern Railroad, Agricultural Development (O.N. "See also I. D. O'Donnell 4:18")	1926-1931
2	47	Northern Pacific Railroad, Agricultural Development	1924-1930
3	1	Indian Lands	1926-1928
3	2-5	Assiniboine Indians Land Investigation (includes material on Land Values)
3	6	Correspondence re: General Inquiries of Prospective Settlers and Statements of Farmers, Montana and elsewhere	1927-1932
3	7	Agricultural Research, General	1926-1931
3	8	Social Science Research Council, Advisory Committee on Social and Economic Research in Agriculture
3	9	Agricultural Research Foundation, Proposed (Farm Foundation) - See also Black, J. D.	1929-1931
3	10	Pacific Northwest Research Council	1931-1932
3	11	U.S. Department of Agriculture, Experiment Station Office	1926-1930
3	12	U.S.D.A., Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Niles A. Olsen	1926-1932
3	13	U.S.D.A., Bureau of Agricultural Economics, H. R. Tolley	1926-1929
3	14	Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Division of Farm Management and Costs	1928-1932
3	15	Miscellaneous Research Projects	1926-1932
3	16	Outlook Statements, Statistical Services, etc.	1925-1933
3	17	Farm Management (General)	1926-1933
3	18	American Society of Farm Managers	1931
3	19	Northwest Farm Management Association	1925-1929
3	20	Types of Farming	1926-1932
3	21	Land Utilization Projects Land Utilization Problems and Planning	1928-1932
3	22-23	Large Scale Corporate Farming	1928-1932
3	24	T.D. Campbell Farming Corporation	1928-1933
3	25-26	Farm Mechanization	1932-1933
3	27	Talks and Articles on Farm Mechanization
3	28	Farm Implement Sales and Surveys	1926-1937
3	29	Tractor Operators for Montana	1927-1930
3	30	Economic Irrigation Conference (D35)	1926-1928
3	31	Power Farming Meetings, Demonstrations, etc.	1927-1932
3	32-34	Low-Cost Wheat Train	1928-1930
4	1	Fergus County Farm Management Program	1927-1939
4	2	Tractors, use of	1926-1934
4	3	Tillage Machinery and Methods	1924-1932
4	4	Stubble burner, fire drags, etc.	1927-1934
4	5-8	Grain Harvesting Machinery and Methods	1926-1929
4	9	Trucks, Trailers, etc.	1927-1931
4	10	Big Team Material and Correspondence	1926-1933
4	11-12	Wayne L. Dinsmore, Horse Association of America	1926-1931
4	13	Farm Accounts and Records	1925-1929
4	14	Big Team Accounts See also CA F 32 (2:36) Extension Service, Alvord	1926-1928
4	15	Tractor Accounts	1928
4	16	Horse versus tractor operations	1928-1930
4	17	Irrigation (General)	1926-1932
4	18	I. D. O'Donnell Correspondence	1929-1932
4	19	Dr. Elwood Mead	1927-1933
4	20	Economic Irrigation Conference	1927
4	21	Lethbridge Northern Irrigation Project
4	22-23	Flax (General)	1925-1932
4	24-25	Flax Development Committee	1925-1931
4	26	Flax Demonstration	1927 Spring
4	27	Valier Land and Water Company	1927-1930
4	28	Cattle and Sheep ranch and range studies	1926-1929 July
4	29	Cattle and sheep ranch and range studies	1929 July-1930 June
5	1	Cattle and sheep ranch and range studies	1930-1932
5	2	Range carrying capacity
5	3	Feeder livestock
5	4	U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry, V. V. Parr
5	5	Fletcher, Robert S., "Livestock History and Range Cattle Study"
5	6	Low-Cost Hog Raising
5	7	Marketing Research and extension activities	1925-1929
5	8	Marketing research and extension activities	1930-1932
5	9	Farmer's Week	1930-1931
5	10	Taxation See also CA F 19 (B17) Staff correspondence - R. R. Renne	1927-1930
5	11	Taxation Credit Study	1926-1929
5	12-14	Weather Research	1925-1932
5	15	Hail Insurance	1927-1932
5	16	Special Crops (miscellaneous)	1932
5	17	Alfalfa, Hay, Sweet Clover	1926-1931
5	18	Beans	1927-1932
5	19	Corn	1927-1931
5	20	Sugar Beets	1926-1932
		5: Farm Relief Files (Original Series CD) This large subseries breaks into two major groups: Subject files and Individual Files - Farm Policy Correspondence. The subject files seem to deal with either specific issues (such as drought relief) or large groups (farm relief plans), while the individual files contain correspondence from and with specific individuals or a group of no more than three or four people. In both cases, the overall subject is that defined by the series title. Farm problems ranging from the Federal Land Bank to drought relief efforts and land planning are all contained in this subseries.	1925-1933
Box	Folder
5	21-22	Miscellaneous correspondence re: Agricultural and General economic conditions and problems	1926-1933
5	23	Garet Garrett
5	24	Agricultural conditions, V. V. Parr	1930-1933
5	25	Land Grant College Association report on the agricultural situation
5	26	Land Grant College Economic Committee	1932-1933
5	27	Legislation, State	1929-1933
5	28	Legislation, State
5	29	Miscellaneous Legislation, Federal	1927-1932
5	30	McNarey Haugen Bill
5	31-32	Marketing Problems	1925-1929
5	33	Freight rates
5	34	Tariff
5	35-36	Federal farm board
6	1	Montana State Marketing Agency, proposed
6	2	Agricultural credit
6	3	Federal Land Bank
6	4	Drought relief	1926-1929
6	5	Drought relief	1930
6	6	Drought relief	1931 January-June
6	7	Drought relief	1931 July-August
6	8	Drought relief	1931 September-December
6	9	Drought relief	1932 January-February
6	10	Drought relief	1932 March-April
6	11	Drought relief	1932 May-1933 May
6	12	Regional Agricultural Planning-Christgau Bill
6	13	Agricultural Land Planning paper (American Farm Bureau Federation)
6	14-17	University of Chicago Conferences on Economic Policy for American Agriculture
6	18	Second Conference on Economic Policy for American Agriculture
6	19-21	Land utilization
6	22	Land bills
7	1-2	Land utilization materials
7	3	"Land Utilization " radio talk	1931-1932
7	4	Land planning paper ("National Conference on Land Utilization")
7	5	Decentralization of industry	1931-1933
7	6	Population - Rural Life	1931-1932
7	7	Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program	1930-1932 February
7	8	Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program	1932 March
7	9	Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program	1932 April
7	10	Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program	1932 May-July
7	11	Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program	1932 August-September
7	12	Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program	1932 October
7	13	Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program	1932 November
7	14	Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program	1932 December
7	15	Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program	1933
7	16-17	Topeka Farm speech - Wilson's memoranda and notes
7	18	Secretary of Agriculture
7	19	Routine Requests for information on Domestic Allotment Plan
7	20	Allotment bills
7	21-23	Domestic Allotment "Materials"
8	1-3	Domestic Allotment "Materials"
8	4-8	Farm Relief Plans, alternatives to Domestic Allotment
8	9	Farm Program and agricultural conditions, Canadian and British correspondence	1930-1931
8	10	Farm Program and agricultural conditions, Canadian and British correspondence	1932
8	11	Bushrod Allin	1931-1932
8	12	E. J. Bell, Federal Farm Board	1930-1931
8	13	A. H. Benton, North Dakota Agricultural College	1932
8	14	J. D. Black	1928-1933
8	15	R. B. Bowden, Northwest Country Elevator Association, Minneapolis	1932-1932
8	16	I. M. Brandjord, Montana State Board of Land Commissioners	1930-1932
8	17	John Brandt, Land O'Lakes Creameries, Inc.	1931-1932
8	18	Tom D. Campbell	1932
8	19	Victor Christgau, U.S. House of Representatives	1928-1933
8	20	Louis Clarke, Kloke Investment Co., Omaha, Nebraska	1931-1932
8	21	Lester Cole, "Montana Farmer"	1930-1933
8	22	C. B. Coleman, New Windsor, Illinois	1931
8	23-24	Chester C. Davis	1925-1933
8	25	S. J. Davis, Food Research Institute, Stanford University	1931-1933
8	26-27	Eric Englund, U.S. Department of Agriculture	1930-1933
8	28	Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, U.S.D.A.	1931-1933
8	29	L. J. Fletcher	1919-1933
8	30	Paul P. Gourach, New York City	1932
8	31	W. E. Grimes, Kansas State Agricultural College	1930-1932
8	32	W. B. Grobe, Imperial Elevator Company, Minneapolis	1930-1933
9	1	Clifford R. Hope, U.S. House of Representatives	1932-1933
9	2	J. L. Humphrey	1930-1933
9	3	J. B. Hutson	1930-1933
9	4	Sherman E. Johnson, South Dakota State College	1930-1932
9	5	Alex Legge	1931-1932
9	6	W. A. Lloyd, U.S.D.A.	1930-1933
9	7	Russell Lord, "Country Home," Crowell Publishing Co.	1930-1933
9	8	Robert D. Lusk, "The Evening Huronite," Huron, South Dakota	1932-1933
9	9	Ben C. McCabe, International Elevator Company	1929-1930
9	10	W. R. McCarthy, Capital Elevator Company and Duluth Board of Trade	1930-1933
9	11	Raymond Moley	1932
9	12	Minneapolis Tribune: James S. Millery and F. E. Murphy	1931-1932
9	13	Montana State Farm Bureau, W. S. McCormick and Frank Jeffers	1929-1932
9	14-15	Montana State Farm Bureau, W. L. Stockton	1927-1933
9	16	Henry Morgenthau	1932-1933
9	17	National Chamber of Commerce	1929-1930
9	18-19	National Chamber of Commerce, Agricultural Service Department	1929-1933
9	20	National Chamber of Commerce, J. S. Crutchfield	1932-1933
9	21	National Chamber of Commerce, H. I. Harriman	1931-1933
9	22	C. Reinold Noyes	1933
9	23	George and Burton Peek	1932
9	24	Walter B. Pitken	1932
9	25	Hickman, Price, N. Y. and Texas	1929-1932
9	26	R. R. Rogers, Prudential Life Insurance Co., Newark, N.J.	1929-1933
9	27-29	W. R. Ronald, Evening Republican, Mitchell, S.D. Ap.	1932 August, 1932 Sepember-1933 April
9	30	Beardsley Ruml, Spillman Fund of New York	1932
9	31	Ramsay Spillman	1933
9	32	A. H. Stafford, Montana State Department of Agriculture	1930-1932
9	33	George A. Starring	1932
9	34	H. C. Taylor	1926-1932
9	35	M. W. Thatcher	1932
9	36	H. R. Trolley, U.S.D.A.	1930-1933
9	37	Rex Tugwell	1932-1933
9	38	H. A. Wallace	1930-1933
9	39	Senator T. J. Walsh	1932-1933
9	40	C. C. Webber, Deere, Webber Co.	1932-1933
9	41	Senator Burton Wheeler	1928-1933
9	42	John Wilson, Lewistown, Montana	1929-1933
9	43	J. W. Wilson, Topeka, Kansas	1932-1933
9	44	M. S. Winder, American Farm Bureau	1931-1932
		6: Miscellaneous Wilson Files (Original Series CE) This subseries focuses on both the miscellaneous activities of M. L. Wilson and some subjects that deal with countries outside North America. It also contains mixed correspondence with Wilson, and papers related to organizations that Wilson worked with or supported. The rationale for the placement of these files within a group are unclear.	1926-1933
Box	Folder
10	1	Correspondence A to H	1926-1932
10	2	Correspondence J to R	1926-1932
10	3	Correspondence S to Z	1926-1932
10	4	American Country Life Association	1931-1933
10	5	American Farm Economic Association	1925-1932
10	6	Chamber of Commerce Conference on the Development of the Pacific Northwest	1928
10	7	Farmers Union	1928
10	8	Grange	1931
10	9	Greater Montana Association, Montana Association, Montanans Incorporated, Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries	1932
10	10	Greater North Dakota Association	1929
10	11	Montana Seed Growers Association	1928-1929
10	12	Joint Committee on Relation of Social and Economic Factors in Rural Progress	1926-1927
10	13	Western Farm Economic Association	1927-1933
10	14-15	Miscellaneous Correspondence with reference to talks, addresses, articles, etc.	1926-1932
10	16	Inquiries into the possibilities of agricultural work	1927-1931
10	17	Foreign visitors	1926-1932
10	18	Russian relations	1928-1929 June
10	19	Russian relations	1929 July-December
10	20	Russian relations	1930
10	21	Russian relations	1931-1933
10	22	Russian relations, reports, etc.
10	23	M. L. Wilson miscellaneous
10	24-25	M. L. Wilson, miscellaneous talks

2: E. A. Starch Administration Files, 1912-1941Return to Top

The following series appears to be a group of files appear to correspond roughly to the term of E. A. Starch as Department Head (1933-1937) but obviously some of the materials predate that time. The divisions within the files break into subseries of General Departmental Correspondence, Agricultural Adjustment Administration Papers, Land Use Planning, Sub-Marginal Lands, and Agricultural Statistics.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		1: General Departmental Correspondence (Original Series CF) This series deals with mostly internal matters and correspondence from the Agricultural Economics Department. Some are individuals, while others concern groups or organizations.
Box	Folder
10	26	Miscellaneous Departmental correspondence	1935-1938
10	27	M. L. Wilson	1933-1935
11	1	F. B. Linfield	1933-1936
11	2	President Alfred Atkinson	1933-1935
11	3	J. C. Taylor	1933-1936
11	4	Budgets	1931-1939
11	5	Statements	1932-1936
11	6	Expenditures, Station and Extension	1935-1938
11	7	Directories	1934-1936
11	8	Farm accounting	1919
11	9	Agricultural survey of the Gallatin Valley	1912
11	10	Farm management survey in the Billings sugar beet region	1915
11	11	Cost of growing wheat on non-irrigated land in Montana	1915
11	12	Economic study of the farm tractor in Montana	1917
11	13	Farm organization studies in the Gallatin Valley	1919
11	14	Farm practice in growing sugar beets in the Billings region of Montana	1916
11	15	Cost accounting
11	16	Cost accounting investigation on Montana farms	1922
11	17	Farm organization studies in the Plains area of Montana	1929
11	18	An economic study of corn production and utilization	1924
11	19	An economic study of dairy farming in Montana	1923
11	20	Studies of successful farms in Montana	1924
11	21	Farm reorganization studies	1924
11	22	An economic study of the small combine	1926
11	23	An economic study of flax production
11	24	An economic study of sugar beet farms	1925
11	25	Wheat marketing in Montana	1925
11	26	A study of range livestock industry	1927
11	27	An economic survey of the production & marketing of farm products in the trade area of Billings	1927
11	28	History - cattle industry in eastern Montana	1923
11	29	Study of farm organizations in Montana	1929
11	30	Combine harvesting in Montana
11	31	Organization & operation methods of farmers' elevators (Purnell)	1923
11	32	Crop & livestock combinations - Valier & Sun River irrigation projects (Purnell)	1929
11	33	Crops & livestock combination for Milk River irrigation project (Purnell)	1927
11	34	Economic advantages of dairying (Purnell)	1927
11	35	Supply & Market for Montana apples	1927
11	36	Crop & livestock combination - western Montana	1927
11	37	Economics of flax production (Purnell)	1927
11	38	Organization management practices. Successful type farms	1927
11	39	Organization - successful dry farm - Southeast Montana	1928
11	40	Food reserves for livestock - Montana	1927
11	41	Tests of farm organization - Montana	1927
11	42	Two-tractor farm project	1927
11	43	A study of the economic causes for the wide fluctuations in range sheep population in Montana	1925
11	44	Management problems of farmers' elevators in Montana	1931
11	45	An historical analysis of Montana farm prices for major agricultural products	1931
11	46	Economic study of livestock feeding in relation to the low priced wheat in Montana	1927
11	47	An economic study of the range cattle industry in Montana	1929
11	48	Farm taxation in Gallatin Valley	1923
11	49	A study of present economic status & patterns of land utilization together with possibilities for re-adjustment in organization & use of land - Musselshell Valley	1932
11	50	Relation between Montana farm tax & public finance	1932
11	51	An economic analysis of Montana cereal production & marketing in relation to production adjustments & land use programs	1933
11	52-53	Comparative tax burdens, tax delinquency, tax sales & land values in Montana	1933
11	54	A study of the economics of irrigated feed production in the organization of livestock ranches in the state 1934	1934
11	55	Comparative cost of county government	1933
11	56	Reorganization tax structure & social service pattern accompanying Montana's land use & rural re-habilitation programs	1936-1937
11	57	A range economic study in Madison & Beaverhead counties in Montana	1935
11	58	Analysis of local public finance aspects of federal land purchase projects in Montana	1936
11	59	Terminated sponsors' contributions
11	60	Federal Emergency Relief Administration
11	61	County agricultural economics and farm management projects
11	62-63	Miscellaneous
11	64-65	Farm corporations	1929-1941
		2: Agricultural Adjustment Administration (Original Series CG) This subseries deals with correspondence and plans for Montana counties and programs that deal with the Domestic Allotment and Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The period from 1933 to 1935 is predominant in this series. It includes Daniels and Valley counties.	1933-1935
Box	Folder
11	66	Allotment correspondence	1933 July-August
11	67	Allotment correspondence	1933 September-October
11	68	Allotment correspondence	1933 November-December
11	69	Allotment correspondence	1934 January-February
11	70	Allotment correspondence	1934 March-April
11	71	Allotment correspondence	1934 May-1935 November
11	72	County circulars, etc.
12	1	Daniels County - Correspondence, Directives, Circulars, Reports, etc.
12	2	Valley County
12	3	U.S. Department of Agriculture, Letters and Circulars
12	4	State directives, circulars, etc.
12	5-6	Memoranda and Allotment material
12	7	Wheat Adjustment Referendum	1935
12	8	Tabulated wheat yields and acreage by county	1928, 1935
12	9	State Grain Board correspondence	1935 September-1936 January
		3: Land Use Planning (Original Series CH) This small subseries deals with planning for land use during the time in question, including "colonization" and outside requests for information. Planning is documented for the county level, the state level, rehabilitation of eroded areas, water resources, and some discussion with a consultant.	1933-1935
Box	Folder
12	10	Settlement (colonization, homestead inquiries, etc.)	1933-1934
12	11	Land utilization and land use planning (general)	1934-1935
12	12	Regional planning	1934-1937
12	13	Standardization of materials, procedures, methodology, etc.	1934-1936
12	14	State planning	1934-1935
12	15	Louis A. Campbell, Planning Consultant, Montanans Incorporated and State Planning Board	1934-1935
12	16	State maps, statistics, etc.	1933-1935
12	17	Type-of-farm projects	1934-1935
12	18	District planning	1934-1935
12	19	County planning	1934-1935
12	20	Rehabilitation of eroded areas	1934-1935
12	21	Water resource development	1934-1935
		4: Sub-Marginal Lands (Original Series CJ) This subseries deals with efforts to develop sub-marginal land into productive and profitable agricultural regions. It documents correspondence, programs and planning, and land sales and evaluation.	1933-1935
Box	Folder
12	22	Sub-marginal land purchase program and projects
12	23	Memoranda to regional directors and project managers	1934-1935
12	24	Political appointments	1935
12	25	Land values	1933-1934
12	26	Land appraisal survey - prepared for Federal Land Bank	1933
12	27	Farm Credit Administration file	1933-1934
12	28	Appraiser's School	1934
12	29	Grazing control and range organizational studies	1934-1935
12	30	S. E. Johnson, Regional Director, Land Policy Division, AAA	1934
12	31	S. E. Johnson, Regional Director, Land Policy Division, AAA	1935
12	32	Petitions and inquiries with regard to certain areas being included in the re-purchase program	1934-1935
12	33-34	Sub-marginal land repurchase program - Inquiries from individuals wishing to sell land	1934 January-October
13	1- 5	Sub-marginal land repurchase program - Inquiries from individuals wishing to sell land	1934 November-1936 February
13	6	Lists of purchased land	1939
13	7	W. H. Jones, Project Manager, Miles City	1934-1936
13	8	H. L. Lantz, Project Manager, Milk River	1934-1936
13	9	E. A. Sandberg, Project Manager, Musselshell Central Montana Project	1935
13	10	Recreational and wild life conservation areas	1934-1935
13	11	Robert E. Clarkson, Montana Relief Commission	1934-1937
13	12	Rural rehabilitation and farm relief (including early resettlement and subsistence homesteads)	1933-1935
13	13	Resettlement	1935
		5: Agricultural Statistics (Original Series CK)	1933-1936
Box	Folder
13	14	Drought survey and proposed relief program	1937
13	15	Cattle and sheep purchases	1934-1935
13	16	Agricultural credit	1933-1935
13	17	Debt adjustment file	1934-1935
13	18	Livestock credit studies	1934-1935
13	19	Mechanization, tractor sales, etc.	1933-1934
13	20	Agricultural census	1934-1936
13	21	Analysis of Census Data on Farms	1920, 1925, 1930
13	22	Farm Accounts	1934-1936
13	23	Rural Life project	1934-1936
13	24-25	National Emergency Council data	1933, 1935

3: R.R. Renne Administration Files, 1934-1943Return to Top

The files in this series roughly correspond to the term of R.R. Renne as Department Head (1935-1943). Again, there is little coherence in their division, although five broad subseries have been identified: General Departmental Records, Miscellaneous Files, Agricultural and Economic Conditions, Public Finance, and Special Projects. Alphabetic designation of original file divisions have been retained

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		1: General Departmental Records (Original Series CL) This subseries deals with mostly internal matters and correspondence from the Agricultural Economics Department. Some are individuals, while others concern groups or organizations.	1934-1943
Box	Folder
13	26	Annual reports	1934-1943
13	27	Budget	1935-1943
13	28	Work fund expenditures	1928-1939
13	29	Statements	1937-1942
13	30	Departmental miscellany	1939-1942
13	31	Dean Clyde McKee	1938-1943
13	32	A. L. Strand	1938-1942
13	33	J. C. Taylor	1938-1942
13	34	F. B. Linfield	1935-1938
13	35	Correspondence re: vacancies, etc.	1936-1943
13	36	John Bower	1940-1943
13	37	C. H. Craig	1939-1943
13	38	Phil S. Eckert	1930-1943
13	39	Stephen Enke	1940-1941
13	40	Harold G. Halcrow	1938-1943
13	41	Nicholas Helburn	1940-1943
14	1	Harold F. Holland	1939-1943
14	2	Roy E. Huffman	1938-1943
14	3	Carl F. Kraenzel	1937-1945
14	4	H. H. Lord	1939-1943
14	5	O. A. Parsons	1938-1943
14	6	Hans H. Plambeck	1941-1943
14	7	P. L. Slagsvold	1938-1940
14	8	Latyton Thompson	1940-1943
14	9	Teaching	1937-1943
14	10	Fellowships, scholarships, etc. - graduate students	1935-1942
14	11	Short courses	1936-1941
14	12	Student letters, to and about	1936-1940
14	13	Student letters, to and about	1940-1943
14	14	O. H. Brownlee	1938-1943
14	15	B. A. E. Memoranda	1940
14	16	Land grant college - B.A.E. Committee	1939-1940
14	17-18	Work Projects Administration	1937-1942
14	19	W. P. A. Sponsors' contributions
14	20	Research projects - miscellaneous correspondence
14	21	Historical records project	1939
14	22	Dr. Kate E. M. Mandelburg	1939-1941
		2: Miscellaneous files (Original Series CM) This subseries contains files dealing with a broad range of subjects and persons. For the most part it seems to deal with things that do not group well into the other series related to R. R. Renne's term as department head.	1936-1943
Box	Folder
14	23	Miscellaneous correspondence	1936-1943
14	24	T. W. Schultz	1936-1943
14	25	M. L. Wilson	1936-1943
14	26	George S. Wherwein	1936-1942
14	27	R. C. Line	1938-1942
14	28	American Farm Economics Association	1939-1940
14	29	Journal of Farm Economics	1938-1943
14	30	Western Farm Economics Association	1936-1941
14	31	Montana Education Association	1936-1939
14	32	Building fund campaign	1940
14	33	Athletics	1938-1940
14	34	North Dakota School for Agricultural Workers	1939
14	35	Gallatin County consumers project	1934-1935
14	36	School district no. 7	1937
14	37	Adult education, forums, etc.	1936-1943
		3: Agricultural and Economic Conditions (Original Series CN) This subseries documents projects and correspondence during R. R. Renne's tenure as department head that relate to general conditions in the state. It deals to an extent with projects undertaken during the early years of World War II, although some planning documents are also contained herein.	1930s-1940s
Box	Folder
14	38	General agricultural and economic conditions
14	39	Planning (general)
15	1	Land resources and land use planning (general)
15	2	Cooperative land use planning programs
15	3	AAA county study
15	4	Special agricultural conservation study - Pondera (conservation) and Meagher (range) programs
15	5	County land use planning
15	6	War and post-war problems (WPA resource survey - Montana trade status)
15	7	War and post-war problems (articles and conference proceedings)
15	8-9	National Resources Committee	1939 April-1942 November
15	10	Pacific Northwest regional planning commission
15	11	Northwest regional council
15	12	Bibliography and compilation of research in Montana
15	13	Research in Montana
15	14	Columbia Basin - Bonneville power
15	15	Great Plains program, proposed, and miscellaneous Great Plains material
15	16	Northern Great Plains Agricultural Advisory Council, Research Committee
15	17	Mss. - "Wanted: a Culture for the Great Plains Region"
		4: Public Finance, Taxation and Land (Original Series CP) This subseries documents projects and correspondence relating to the issue of taxation, public lands, and other financial questions during R. R. Renne's tenure as department head. Real estate, land ownership, the question of Indian lands, and Federal land purchases and programs are all considered in this series.	1930s-1940s
Box	Folder
15	18	Government, local
15	19	Governmental units
15	20	Montana Institute of Government
15	21	Manuscript: "Montana county expenditures"
15	22	County public finance studies - Daniels, Sheridan, Roosevelt, Prairie, Musselshell
16	1	Montana Taxpayers Association (Fred Bennion)
16	2	Montana Taxpayers Association, University Study
16	3	School problems, finance, consolidation, etc.
16	4	Taxation
16	5	Taxation - corporate license tax
16	6	Taxation - income tax
16	7	Manuscript: "Income taxation in Montana"
16	8-9	Taxation - real estate and ownership
16	10	Farm tenure
16	11	Public lands
16	12	Federal land purchase
16	13	Indian lands
16	14	Crow Indian land
16	15	State lands
16	16	School lands (M.E.A. Committee)
16	17	Manuscript: "State land management in Montana"
16	18	County lands (tax deed lands, county land leasing, etc.)
16	19	County assessment systems
16	20	Land appraisal
16	21	Farm finance studies (farm credit loans, mortgages, land transfers, tax delinquency)
		5: Special Project (Original Series CQ) 1This subseries covers a number of miscellaneous projects and correspondence groupings during the tenure of R. R. Renne as department head. This appears to include Extension programs and other efforts undertaken by, or with the support of, the department. This also includes a smaller series in the original (but not in the added file system) designated CR.	1930s-1940s
Box	Folder
16	22	Agricultural credit
16	23	Manuscript: "Credit Costs" by J. J. Livers
16	24	Banks and banking
16	25	Production credit associations
16	26	Soil surveys
16	27	Manuscript: "Montana Soil and Moisture Conservation Practice"
16	28	Type of farming studies
16	29	Farm management, farm accounts and outlook work
16	30	Manuscript: "Farm and Ranch Business Analysis" by R. R. Renne
16	31	Mechanization
16	32	Manuscript: "Production costs on mechanized irrigated farms in Montana"
16	33	Water resources and irrigation
16	34	Manuscript: "Crop selection in irrigated areas in Montana"
16	35	Beans: production and marketing
16	36	Sugar beets
16	37	Potato marketing
16	38	Dairying and dairy products
16	39	Milk Control Board	1939-1941
16	40	Milk Control Board	1942-1943
16	41	Honey Control Board
16	42	Manuscript: "Trends in Montana's poultry production"
16	43	Range livestock and grazing land studies
16	44	Buffalo Creek Grazing District
16	45	Livestock Marketing
17	1	Wool and wool cooperative marketing (wool pools)
17	2	Livestock and lamb fattening project
17	3	WPA grazing history manuscript
17	4	Argentine beef problems (D. Bell correspondence)
17	5	Rural sociology research (health, relief, welfare, population)
17	6	Community approval appraisal (CWA-FERA-WPA-PWA)
17	7	Cost of living survey
17	8	Northern Great Plains migration project
17	9	FSA resettlement studies
17	10	Teton county submarginal farm project
17	11	Butte economic survey
17	12	Gasoline tax and highway support
17	13	Marketing, cooperative
17	14	4-H club study
17	15	Mapping activities (WPA)
17	16	Miscellaneous statistical and trade status data
17	17	Northwest Montana economic data
17	18	Weather
17	19	Renne miscellany
17	20	Land economics textbook
17	21	"Montana Citizen"

4: Robert B. Tootell Administration Files, 1943-1945Return to Top

This series, originally designated CT, deals with a number of routine departmental duties as well as special research projects undertaken during Tootell's tenure.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
17	22	Reports and departmental routine (general)
17	23-24	General economic conditions and post-war planning (including post-war employment correspondence)
17	25	Production goals material
17	26	Northern Great Plains and Missouri River development
17	27-29	Settlement opportunities, Veterans and others	1943-1945
17	30	Farm financing and agricultural credit
17	31	Production costs, prices, and income
17	32	Land transfers, land values, and land tenure studies (land market correspondence)
17	33	Leasing agreements
17	34	State lands
17	35	"State land management in Montana" - mimeographed report
18	1	Miscellaneous cattle and sheep ranching and grazing land correspondence
18	2	Farm Managers' Association
18	3	Kiwanis agricultural committees
18	4	Cooperative marketing and other marketing problems
18	5	Irrigation
18	6	Mechanization
18	7	Sugar beets
18	8	Fellowships and scholarships
18	9	M. E. A. joint correspondence on post-war problems
18	10	Miscellaneous correspondence

5: Robert S. Eckert Administration Files, 1945-1949Return to Top

Brief series of correspondence and reports, originally designated series CU, dealing with the administration of from 1945 to 1949.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
18	11	Correspondence, 1945-1949	1945-1949
18	12	Reports, 1945-1949	1945-1949

6: Individual Agricultural Economics Faculty Member Files, 1925-1943Return to Top

Correspondence and reports created or collected by faculty members of the Agricultural Economics department. Divided into subseries corresponding to each pertinent staff member including E. J. Bell, G. H. Craig, S. E. Johnson, O. A. Parsons, R.R. Renne, M. Saunderson, P. L. Slagsvold, and E. A. Starch. The alphanumeric code in parentheses after each folder title is from the original finding aid and has been retained as a convenience for researchers who may have consulted earlier citations. These numbers are not used in this finding aid for control or indexing.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		1: E. J. Bell (Original Series DBE)	1925-1930
Box	Folder
18	13	Co-operation (S1)
18	14	Grain and grain marketing (S2)
18	15	List of grain companies operating in Montana (S3)	1928
18	16	Project 19 - wheat marketing in Montana (S4)
18	17	Markets for Montana wheat (S5)
18	18	Pennsylvania correspondence (S6)
18	19	County agents' wheat projects and meetings (S7)
18	20	Protein content and premiums on wheat (S8)
18	21	Bulletin - Marketing high protein wheat (S9)
18	22	Protein meeting (S10)
18	23	Milling in bond and Canadian wheat prices (S11)
18	24	Combining of grain (S12)
18	25	Moisture testers (S13)
18	26	Grain storage (S14)
18	27	Cooperative marketing of wheat (Federal Farm Board) (S15)
18	28	Elevators (S16)
18	29	Farmers' elevator short course (S17)
18	30	Alfalfa seed marketing (S18)
18	31	Beans (S19)
18	32	Sugar beets (S20)
18	33	Livestock marketing (S21)
18	34	Wool marketing (S22)
18	35	Poultry and poultry products (S23)
18	36	Billings beet region study (S24)
18	37	Miscellany (S25)
18	38	Employment status, etc. (S26)
18	39	M. L. Wilson (S27)
		2: G. H. Craig (Original Series DCR)	1940-1943
Box	Folder
18	40	Teaching (S28)
18	41	Research activities, general correspondence and data (S29)
18	42	Livestock industry correspondence (ranch organization study) (S30)
18	43	Mss. - "Economic Importance of Range Livestock in Montana" (S31)
18	44	Land valuation, zoning (S32)
18	45	Tenancy studies and correspondence (S33)
18	46	Collective tenure study and grazing correspondence (S34)
18	47	Collective tenure study - Wyoming field notes (S35)
18	48	Meagher County range experiment program (S36)
18	49	Northern great plains (general) (S37)
18	50	"Wartime land policy for the Northern Great Plains" (S38)
18	51	"Northern Great Plains in a World of Change" (S39)
18	52	Canadian correspondence, reports, etc. (collective tenure, irrigation, marketing, etc.) (S40)
18	53	Miscellaneous correspondence (S41)
19	1	Renne's land economics textbook (S42)
19	2	Health plans (S43)
19	3	Social security legislation (S44)
19	4	Farmers' movements (S45)
		3: S. E. Johnson (Original Series DJO)	1926-1929
Box	Folder
19	5	M. L. Wilson (S46)
19	6	Farm accounts (S47)
19	7	Reclamation (S48)
19	8	Bitterroot survey (S49)
19	9	Flathead irrigation project survey (S50)
19	10	Apple Marketing (S51)
19	11	Cherry industry (S52)
19	12	Dairy industry (S53)
19	13	Wheat production, marketing, storage, prices, protein content, etc. (S54)
19	14	Livestock shipping associations (S55)
19	15	Miscellany (S56)
19	16	Director, F. B. Linfield (S57)
		4: O. A. Parsons (Original Series DPA)	1939-1943
Box	Folder
19	17	Miscellaneous correspondence (S58)
19	18	R. R. Renne (S59)
19	19	Farm management (S60)
19	20	Agricultural planning (S61)
19	21	Farmers' records (S62)
19	22	Farm prices (S63)
19	23	Type of farming studies (general) (S64)
19	24	Mss. & miscellaneous statistical tables "Type of farming in Montana" Part II (S65)
19	25	Type of farming in Montana, Area, III (S66)
19	26	Type of farming in Montana, Area, V (S67)
19	27	Type of farming in Montana, Area, VI (S68)
19	28	Type of farming in Montana, Area, VII (S69)
19	29	Teton County study (S70)
19	30	Irrigation (S71)
19	31	Farm mechanization (S72)
19	32	Farm implement sales and machinery rationing (S73)
19	33	Farm labor (S74)
19	34	Doctoral thesis: "Factors affecting agriculture in the Great Plains area of Montana" (S75)
19	35	Master's thesis: "Analysis of economic factors affecting the soil erosion control practices of the individual farmer" (S76)
19	36	Northern Plains study - "Northern Great Plains in a world of change" (S77)
19	37	Mss. - "Report on economic study of the Skokin extension of the Sun River Electric Cooperative" (S78)
		5: R. R. Renne (Original Series DRE)	1930-1935
Box	Folder
19	38	Miscellaneous departmental activities, departmental relationships, etc. (S79)
19	39	Teaching (S80)
19	40	Correspondence with and about former students (S81)
19	41	M. S. C. athletic association (S82)
19	42	General and miscellaneous agricultural and economic conditions and policies (S83)
19	43	Wheat adjustment program (S84)
19	44	Taxation (S85)
19	45	Montana taxpayers' association (S86)
19	46	Projects connected with farm taxation, tax delinquency, farm mortgages, land values, etc. (S87)
19	47	Tax project, B. W. Allin correspondence (S88)
20	1	Local government (S89)
20	2	School finance and school district consolidation (S90)
20	3	Submarginal land purchase program, county owned lands (S91)
20	4	Range lands (S92)
20	5	Resettlement (S93)
20	6	Cooperative rural sociology research (S94)
20	7	Population project (S95)
20	8	Tariff (S96)
20	9	Theses: Tariff monograph (S97)
20	10	Theses text (S98)
20	11	Dairying (S99)
20	12	Oleomargarine (S100)
20	13	Irrigation and reclamation conference, (S101)	1934 September 27
20	14	Beans (S102)
20	15	Flax and linseed meal (S103)
20	16	Farm mechanization (S104)
20	17	Gasoline prices (S105)
20	18	Miscellaneous projects - rural relief study, health conditions, county tabulations, etc. (S106)
20	19	Miscellaneous correspondence (S107)
20	20	T. W. Schultz (S108)
20	21	Assiniboine Indian land case (S109)
20	22	Western Loan and Building Co. (S110)
20	23	Boston Montana Mines Corporation (S111)
20	24	H. H. Stippler correspondence - German translation (S112)
		6: H. Saunderson (Original Series DSA)	1931-1938
Box	Folder
20	25	Miscellaneous correspondence, A to L (S113)
20	26	Miscellaneous correspondence, M to Z (S114)
20	27	President A. W. Atkinson (S115)
20	28	Director F. B. Linfield (S116)
20	29	Director Clyde McKee (S117)
20	30	M. L. Wilson (S118)
20	31	E. A. Starch (S119)
20	32	R. R. Renne (S120)
20	33	P. L. Slagsvold (S121)
20	34	R. B. Haight (S122)
20	35	John Nye (S123)
20	36	Arthur Roth (S124)
20	37	Daniel A. Fulton (S125)
20	38	Montana Board of Reclamation Commissioners (S126)
20	39	Montana Grazing Commission: N. W. Monte (S127)
20	40	Grazing coordinator, Montana Relief Commission (Bruce Orcutt, Frank H. Rose) (S128)
20	41	Montana Stockgrowers' Association (S129)	1930-1938
20	42	Montana Wool Growers' Association (S130)	1929-1935
20	43	National Wool Growers' Association; F. R. Marshall, Secretary (S131)
20	44	Northern Pacific Railway (S132)
20	45	U. S. Agricultural Adjustment Administration (S133)
20	46	A.A.A. Brookings Institution project (S134)
20	47	A.A.A. Production Planning study (S135)
20	48	A.A.A. land policy section (S136)
20	49	A.A.A. Land Policy Section, S. E. Johnson (S137)
21	1	U. S. Agricultural Economics Bureau, Federal-State statistics (S138)
21	2	U. S. Agricultural Economics Bureau, Farm Management and Costs Division, C. L. Holmes (S139)
21	3	U. S. Agricultural Economics Bureau, Farm Management and Costs Division, S. E. Johnson (S140)
21	4	U.S. Farm Credit Administration, farm credit survey (S141)
21	5	U.S. Forest Service (S142)
21	6	U.S. National Resources Board (S143)
21	7	U.S. National Resources Board, T. S. Thorfeinson (S144)	1934-1935
21	8	U.S. National Resources Board, J. S. Foster, Colorado land planning (S145)
21	9	U.S. National Resources Board, Tom E. Doughty, land planning consultant (S146)
21	10	U. S. Resettlement Administration (S147)
21	11	U. S. Resettlement Administration, J. C. Foster (S148)
21	12	U. S. Resettlement Administration, Rex E. Willard (S149)
21	13	U. S. Soil Conservation Service (S150)
21	14	Farm account book correspondence (S151)
21	15	Project outlines (S152)
21	16	Typewritten material, articles, etc. (S153)
21	17	Articles, Roth (S154)
21	18	Planning materials, regional adjustment and conservation programs (S155)
21	19	Water resources planning report (S156)
21	20	Land use material (S157)
21	21	Articles and talks on land use planning (S158)
21	22	Land ownership notes (S159)
21	23	Land valuation articles (S160)
21	24	Type of farming study (S161)
21	25	Grazing land use (S162)
21	26	Range studies (S163)
21	27	Plan of adjustment for grazing areas in land utilization projects (S164)
21	28	Agricultural Conservation Program planning - range program (S165)
21	29	Soil conservation material (S166)
21	30	Range management survey data and progress report on range livestock for agricultural conservation study (S167)	1936
21	31	Study of cost, investment and income factors in range beef study (S168)	1929
21	32	Sheep data (S169)
21	33	Livestock data (S170)
		7: P. L. Slagsvold (Original Series DSL)	1929-1936
Box	Folder
21	34	Miscellaneous correspondence (S171)
21	35	Departmental correspondence (S172)
21	36	Conser, C. C. (S173)
21	37	Wilson, M. L. (S174)
21	38	Extension (S175)
21	39	Agricultural policy and farm relief legislation (S176)
21	40	Farm indebtedness (S177)
21	41	Drought and drought relief (S178)
21	42	Resettlement and rural rehabilitation (S179)
		Water resources and irrigation correspondence (S180)
Box	Folder
22	1	Kinsey irrigation project (S181)
22	2	Milk River Bulletin and project (S182)
22	3	Sun River irrigation project (S183)
22	4	Valier irrigation project (S184)
22	5	Agricultural Adjustments Administration (S185)
22	6	Soil conservation (S186)
22	7	Soil conservation - cooperative project (S187)
22	8	Cooperative project mailing lists (S188)
22	9	Marketing research (S189)
22	10	Grain marketing and storage (S190)
22	11	Livestock marketing (S191)
22	12	Lister manuscript: "Survey of General and Specialized Areas of Production and Feeding of Cattle and Sheep in Montana" (S192)
22	13	Cooperatives (S193)
22	14	Cooperative elevators (S194)
22	15	Freight rates (S195)
22	16	Farm income and farm products price studies (S196)
22	17	Farm accounts (S197)
22	18	Farm leases (S198)
22	19	Teaching (S199)
22	20	Ronald Press "Market Organization" text book (S200)
22	21	Merchandising thesis (S201)
		8: E. A. Starch (Original Series DST)	1930-1932
Box	Folder
22	22	Agricultural policy and legislation (S202)
22	23	Montana general agricultural conditions (S203)
22	24	Drought and drought relief (S204)
22	25	Agricultural credit (S205)
22	26-27	Bank study (S206)
22	28	Mechanization and large-scale farming, costs of wheat growing, etc. (S207)
22	29	Misc. inquiries re. Farming methods, use of machinery, control of soil blowing (S208)
22	30	Farm Leases (S209)
22	31	Freight rates (S210)
22	32	Miscellaneous correspondence (S211)
22	33	Manuscript: "Wheat Farm Organization as Influenced by Land Productivity and Price Fluctuations" (S212)

7: Individual Extension Service Faculty Member Files, 1943-1955Return to Top

The files in this series were created or collected by the personnel of the Extension service of Montana State College. The files contain correspondence, reports, and project notes pertaining to the activities of each individual staff member and have been organized in subseries identified by the position occupied, then the person holding that position. The staff members within this series are F.S. Cooley, M.L. Wilson, F. J. Chase, A. J. Copland, V. D. Gilman, B. F. Alvord, Austin Goth, Clyde Howard, Paul Carpenter, Willard Lamphere, R. E. Tootell, H. G. Bolster, W. L. Beers, C. C. Connor, S. Patton, and R. B. Haight. The alphanumeric code in parentheses after each folder title is from the original finding aid and has been retained as a convenience for researchers who may have consulted earlier citations. These numbers are not used in this finding aid for control or indexing.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		1: Extension Director, Cooley, F.S. (Original Series EA)	1915-1917
Box	Folder
22	34	County agents (T1)
22	35	Defense Council Crop Survey (T2)
22	36	Feed shortage (T3)
22	37	U. S. Sheep and Wool demonstration car (T4)
22	38	Horse breeder school, Glendive, Montana (T5)
22	39	Dairying (T6)
22	40	Grange (T7)
22	41	Miscellaneous (T8)
		2: County Agent Leader, Wilson, M. L. (Original Series EB)	1913-1919
Box	Folder
22	42	Agricultural conditions (T9)	1918-1919
22	43	County agents' work (T10)
22	44	Cooley, F. S. (T11)
22	45	Grain marketing districts and state marketing department (T12)
22	46	Farmers' organizations (T13)
22	47	Farmers' organizations - Montana Farm Bureau (T14)
22	48	Montana history - county agent leaders (T15)
22	49	Miscellany (T16)
22	50	Correspondence when at University of Wisconsin relating to land problems including settlement and irrigation (T17)
		3: Farm Management Demonstrator, Chase, F. J. (Original Series FFA)	1916-1918
Box	Folder
22	51	Reports (T18)	1916-1917
22	52	Correspondence (T19)	1917-1918
		4: Farm Management Demonstrator, Copeland, A. J. (Original Series FFB)	1918-1921
Box	Folder
22	53	Correspondence, A to Z (T20)	1918-1921
		5: Extension Economist, Wilson, M. L. (Original Series FFC)	1922-1924
Box	Folder
22	54	Miscellaneous and general correspondence (T21)
22	55	Olsen, Niles A. (Division of Agricultural Credit, U.S.D.A.) (T22)
22	56	Davis, C. C. (Montana Department of Agriculture (T23)
23	1	Reports of progress (T24)
23	2	Farm management (plans of work) (T25)
23	3	County agents (T26)
23	4	Successful farmers survey (T27)
23	5	Farm accounting (T28)
23	6	Farm practices (T29)
23	7	Livestock (T30)
23	8	Grazing (T31)
23	9	Dairying (T32)
23	10	Poultry (T33)
23	11	Potatoes (T34)
23	12	Corn (T35)
23	13	Flax survey (T36)
23	14	Wheat (T37)
23	15	Wheat harvesting methods and machinery (T38)
23	16	Combines (T39)
23	17-19	Big Teams (T40,T41)
23	20	Dry farming methods and demonstration trains (T42)
23	21	Triangle requests (Bulletin No. 66) (T43)
23	22	Hallman, E. C. (Acadia Valley, Alberta) Big Teams (T44)
23	23	Marketing (T45)
23	24	Montana Wheat Growers, Inc. (T46)
23	25	Taxes (T47)
23	26	Farm relief activities 1923 (T48)	1923
23	27	Farm relief activities Jan-Mar 1924 (T49)	1924
23	28	Farm relief activities April-Dec 1924 (T50)	1924
23	29-30	Farm relief materials, President's Agricultural Conference on Northwest (T51,T52)
23	31	President's Agricultural Conference - Agriculture and Finance, Feb. 4, 1924 (T53)	1924 February 4
23	32	Land settlement (T54)
24	1	Land settlement conference, Helena (T55)	1924 March
24	2	Advertising, state lands, etc. (T56)
24	3	Agricultural program for Montana (T57)
24	4	Wilson miscellany (personal) (T58)
24	5	U.S. Department of Agriculture - Taylor, Tolley, etc.-reference to Fairway Farms (T59)
24	6	Reclamation service - - Dr. Elwood Mead (T60)
24	7	American Farm Bureau Federation (T61)
24	8	Weather data (T62)
24	9	Wilson - conferences, talks, etc. (article: "The Evolution of Montana Agriculture in its Early Period") (T63)
24	10	Montana history (T64)
24	11	Alberta survey board (T65)
		6: Farm Management Demonstrator, Gilman, V. D. (Original Series FFD)	1924-1927
Box	Folder
24	12	Farm Management program (T66)
24	13	Reports (T67)
24	14	Taylor, J.C. (T68)
24	15	Wilson, M.L. (T69)
24	16	Farm management surveys, conferences, farm records, account books, etc. (T70)
24	17	1927 Agricultural Economics conferences (T71)	1927
24	18	Irrigation, Milk River (minutes of Irrigation Economics Conference) (T72)	1927 November 16
24	19	Irrigated land, Great Falls District (minutes of Irrigation Economics Conference) (T73)	1927 November 17-18
24	20	Big Team hitch, etc. (T74)
24	21	Grain marketing, testing, etc. (T75)
24	22	Poultry statistics (T76)
24	23	Farm leases (T77)
24	24	Harvesting methods (T78)
24	25	Veterans' trainee program (T79)
		7: Farm Management Demonstrator, Alvord, Ben F. (Original Series FFE)	1927-1928
Box	Folder
24	26	General folder (T80)
		8: Farm Management Demonstrator, Gilman, V. D. (Original Series FFF)	1929-1931
Box	Folder
24	27	Miscellaneous correspondence (T81)
24	28	Farm management program (T82)
24	29	Reports (T83)
24	30	Farm accounts (T84)
24	31	County agricultural economics program (land utilization) (T85)
24	32	Types of farming studies (T86)
24	33	Cattle and sheep range and ranch surveys (T87)
24	34	Irrigated farms survey (Orchard Homes) (T88)
24	35	Dry land farm surveys (T89)
24	36	Railroad area surveys (T90)
24	37	Farm census and area classification (T91)
24	38	Correspondence re. Montana agricultural conditions and farm operations (T92)
24	39	Rentals and tenancy (T93)
24	40	Sugar beets and beans (T94)
24	41	Wilson, M. L. (T95)
24	42	Agricultural credit (T96)
24	43	Drought relief and surveys general (T97)
24	44	Drought relief by counties: Big Horn to Liberty (T98)
24	45	Drought relief by counties: McCone to Yellowstone (T99)
		9: Farm Management Demonstrator, Goth, Austin (Original Series FFJ)	1934-1935
Box	Folder
24	46	Annual report (T100)
24	47-48	Correspondence (T101,T102)	1934, 1935
24	49	Correspondence: Fraser, W. O. (T103)
24	50	General corn-hog material (T104)
24	51	Administrative costs of county associations (T105)
24	52	Corn-hog form letters (T106)	1934-1935
24	53	Circular letters on corn-hog work (T107)
24	54	Corn-hog production adjustment (T108)
24	55	Corn-hog referendum (T109)	1934
24	56	Corn-hog referendum (T110)	1934
24	57	Estimates from corn-hog associations (T111)	1935
24	58	Salt Lake corn-hog conference (T112)
		10: Farm Management Demonstrator, Howard, Clyde (Original Series FFK)	1936-1937
Box	Folder
25	1	Correspondence re. Requests for information (T113)
25	2	Farm records (T114)
25	3	Farm leases (T115)
25	4	Cooperative elevator study (T116)
		11: Extension Economist, Carpenter, Paul (Original Series FGD)	1929-1934
Box	Folder
25	5-6	Bureau of Agricultural Economics (T117, T118)	1929-1933
25	7	Taylor, J. C. (T119)	1929-1934
25	8	Railroad agents (T120)	1929
25	9	A to Z files (T121)
25	10	Wheat (T122)	1929-1933
25	11	Wheat adjustment file (T123)
25	12	Flax (T124)	1930-1932
25	13	Potatoes (T125)	1930-1931
25	14	Beans (T126)
25	15	Beef - horses - mules (T127)	1930-1931
25	16	Dairy products (T128)	1929-1934
25	17	Sheep-wool (T129)	1929-1933
25	18	Farm management (T130)	1932
25	19	Farm credit (T131)	1932
25	20	Credit letter file (T132)	1934
25	21	Farm products trade (T133)
25	22	Corn-hog adjustment file (T134)	1934
25	23	Grasshopper program (T135)	1934
25	24	Transportation, rail (T136)	1931
25	25	Transportation, water (T137)	1929
25	26	Outlook file (T138)	1929
25	27	Outlook comments (T139)
25	28	Outlook study (T140)
25	29	Northern Pacific train - low-cost farming special (T141)
25	30	Special drought survey (T142)	1931
25	31	Hay-feed supplies (T143)
25	32	Reports (T144)
		12: Extension Economist, Lamphere, Willard (Original Series FGL)	1939-1940
Box	Folder
25	33	Specialists' monthly report (T145)
25	34-37	Annual reports (T146-149)	1935-1938
25	38	Plan of work for Land Utilization Projects (T150)	1934-1936
25	39	Plan of work for Agricultural Outlook Project (T151)	1936-1937
25	40-42	Plan of work (T152-154)	1937-1940
25	43	Miscellaneous correspondence (T155)
25	44-45	Agricultural Conservation Program (T156-157)	1935-1939
25	46	Farrell, George E. (T158)
25	47	Mercer, Ralph D. (T159)
25	48	Technical Committee (Soil Conservation program) (T160)
25	49	Recommendations County Committee, Agricultural Conservation Program (T161)	1937
25	50	Program planning - educational work, etc. (T162)
25	51	Discussion and adjustment (T163)
25	52	Crop data (T164)
25	53	Indices of productivity (T165)
25	54	Beans (T166)
25	55	Wheat (T167)
25	56	Outlook correspondence (T168)
25	57	Permanent background project for agricultural outlook (T169)
25	58	Soil and land (T170)
25	59	Water conservation (T171)
25	60	Range conservation program (T172)
25	61	Livestock (T173)
25	62	Wool (T174)
26	1	Drought conditions (T175)
26	2	Emergency cattle and sheep purchase program (T176)	1934
26	3	County agents (T177)
26	4	Range practices - survey Eastern Montana (T178)	1936
26	5	County correspondence - Beaverhead (T179)
26	6	County correspondence - Big Horn (T180)
26	7	County correspondence - Blaine (T181)
26	8	County correspondence - Broadwater (T182)
26	9	County correspondence - Carbon (T183)
26	10	County correspondence - Cascade (T184)
26	11	County correspondence - Chouteau (T185)
26	12	County correspondence - Custer-Powder River (T186)
26	13	County correspondence - Daniels (T187)
26	14	County correspondence - Dawson (T188)
26	15	County correspondence - Fallon-Carter (T189)
26	16	County correspondence - Fergus (T190)
26	17	County correspondence - Flathead (T191)
26	18	County correspondence - Gallatin (T192)
26	19	County correspondence - Garfield-Petroleum (T193)
26	20	County correspondence - Glacier (T194)
26	21	County correspondence - Hill (T195)
26	22	County correspondence - Judith Basin (T196)
26	23	County correspondence - Lake (T197)
26	24	County correspondence - Broadwater-Lewis and Clark (T198)
26	25	County correspondence - Madison-Jefferson (T199)
26	26	County correspondence - Meagher (T200)
26	27	County correspondence - Missoula (T201)
26	28	County correspondence - Golden Valley-Musselshell (T202)
26	29	County correspondence - Park (T203)
26	30	County correspondence - Phillips (T204)
26	31	County correspondence - Pondera (T205)
26	32	County correspondence - Prairie (T206)
26	33	County correspondence - Richland (T207)
26	34	County correspondence - Roosevelt (T208)
26	35	County correspondence - Rosebud (T209)
26	36	County correspondence - Sanders (T210)
26	37	County correspondence - Sheridan (T211)
26	38	County correspondence - Stillwater (T212)
26	39	County correspondence - Sweet Grass (T213)
26	40	County correspondence - Teton (T214)
26	41	County correspondence - Toole (T215)
26	42	County correspondence - Valley (T216)
26	43	County correspondence - Wheatland (T217)
26	44	County correspondence - Wibaux (T218)
26	45	County correspondence - Yellowstone (T219)
26	46	Milk River project (T220)
26	47	Sun River project (T221)
26	48	County work folder - Blaine (T222)
26	49	County work folder - Cascade (T223)
26	50	County work folder - Chouteau (T224)
26	51	County work folder - Dawson (T225)
26	52	County work folder - Fallon-Carter (T226)
26	53	County work folder - Fergus (T227)
26	54	County work folder - Glacier (T228)
26	55	County work folder - Granite (T229)
26	56	County work folder - Hill (T230)
26	57	County work folder - Judith Basin (T231)
26	58	County work folder - Liberty (T232)
26	59	County work folder - McCone (T233)
26	60	County work folder - Phillips (T234)
26	61	County work folder - Pondera (T235)
26	62	County work folder - Prairie (T236)
26	63	County work folder - Richland (T237)
26	64	County work folder - Teton (T238)
26	65	County work folder - Toole (T239)
26	66	County work folder - Valley (T240)
26	67	County work folder - Wibaux (T241)
		13: Extension Land Economist, Tootell, R. E. (Original Series FLA)	1932-1934
Box	Folder
26	68	Reports (T242)
26	69	Land utilization (general) - land classification and land values (T243)
26	70	Land Utilization Round Table Conference (T244)	1932
26	71	Land utilization tours (T245)
26	72	County projects (T246)
26	73	Tax title lands and land trading (T247)
26	74	Grazing districts (T248)
26	75	Land settlement - settlement on irrigated lands, back-to-land movement (T249)
26	76	Land settlement inquiries (T250)
27	1	Irrigation, resource inventory (T251)
27	2	Irrigation financing (T252)
27	3	Irrigation committee, Montanans Incorporated (T253)
27	4	Federal P. W. A. program of water conservation and use (T254)
27	5	Irrigation - miscellaneous correspondence (T255)
27	6	Drought and drought relief (T256)
27	7	Wheat cost of production (T257)
27	8	Domestic allotment plan and administration (T258)
27	9	Miscellaneous correspondence (T259)
		14: Extension Land Economist, Bolster, H. G. (Original Series FLE)	1935-1941
Box	Folder
27	10	Land use planning (general and miscellaneous) (T260)
27	11	Reports on cooperative land use planning program (T261)	1940
27	12	Monthly reports of activities (T262)
27	13	Monthly news exchange (T263)
27	14	Taylor, J. C., Director (T264)
27	15	State Land Use Advisory Committee notices (T265)
27	16	Land use defense program (unified state program to meet the impacts of war) (T266)
27	17	Production goals (Production Adjustment Committee) (T267)
27	18	Sugar beet correspondence (T268)
27	19	Public Works Reserve (T269)
27	20	Agricultural conservation problems (T270)
27	21	County planning project - General statements, reports, etc. (T271)
27	22	County planning project - general correspondence (T272)
27	23	County planning project - correspondence with field agents (T273)
27	24	County planning project - circular letters to county agents (T274)
27	25-26	Plan of work (T275-276)	1939-1941
27	27	Individual counties - Beaverhead (T277)
27	28	Individual counties - Big Horn (T278)
27	29	Individual counties - Blaine (T279)
27	30	Individual counties - Carbon (T280)
27	31	Individual counties - Cascade (T281)
27	32	Individual counties - Chouteau (T282)
27	33	Individual counties - Custer-Powder (T283)
27	34	Individual counties - Daniels (T284)
27	35	Individual counties - Dawson (T285)
27	36	Individual counties - Deer Lodge (T286)
27	37	Individual counties - Fallon-Carter (T287)
27	38	Individual counties - Fergus (T288)
27	39	Individual counties - Flathead (T289)
27	40	Individual counties - Gallatin (T290)
27	41	Individual counties - Garfield - Petrolium (T291)
27	42	Individual counties - Glacier (T292)
27	43	Individual counties - Hill (T293)
27	44	Individual counties - Judith Basin (T294)
27	45	Individual counties - Lake (T295)
27	46	Individual counties - Broadwater-Lewis and Clark (T296)
27	47	Individual counties - Madison-Jefferson (T297)
27	48	Individual counties - McCone (T298)
27	49	Individual counties - Meagher (T299)
27	50	Individual counties - Missoula (T300)
27	51	Individual counties - Golden Valley-Musselshell (T301)
27	52	Individual counties - Park (T302)
27	53	Individual counties - Phillips (T303)
27	54	Individual counties - Pondera (T304)
27	55	Individual counties - Prairie (T305)
27	56	Individual counties - Ravalli (T306)
27	57	Individual counties - Richland (T307)
27	58	Individual counties - Roosevelt (T308)
27	59	Individual counties - Rosebud (T309)
27	60	Individual counties - Sanders (T310)
27	61	Individual counties - Sheridan (T311)
28	1	Individual counties - Stillwater (T312)
28	2	Individual counties - Sweet Grass (T313)
28	3	Individual counties - Teton (T314)
28	4	Individual counties - Toole (T315)
28	5	Individual counties - Treasure (T316)
28	6	Individual counties - Valley (T317)
28	7	Individual counties - Wheatland (T318)
28	8	Individual counties - Wibaux (T319)
28	9	Individual counties - Yellowstone (T320)
28	10	Soil conservation program (T321)
28	11	Water facilities program (T322)
28	12	Grazing districts and lease values of range land (T323)
28	13	Range conditions and control (T324)
28	14	Farm tenancy (T325)
28	15	Indian lands (T326)
28	16	Rehabilitation and resettlement (T327)
28	17	Agricultural credit (T328)
28	18	Miscellaneous correspondence (T329)
		15: Marketing Specialist, Beers, W. L. (Original Series FMB)	1916-1919
Box	Folder
28	19	Miscellaneous correspondence (T330)
28	20	Cooley, F. S. - correspondence and reports (T331)
28	21	U.S.D.A. Bureau of Markets - Charles D. Brand (T332)
28	22-24	U.S.D.A. Bureau of Markets - R. C. Skinner, R. H. Ellsworth (T333-335)	1917-1919
28	25	U.S.D.A. Bureau of Markets - Memoranda (T336)
28	26	Marketing work (T337)
28	27	County circulars, exchange lists, etc. (T338)
28	28	Daily Bulletin (T339)
28	29	Municipal public markets (T340)
28	30	Cooperative marketing (T341)
28	31	Equity Cooperative Association and Farmers' Union (T342)
28	32	Northwest Grain Dealers' Association (T343)
28	33	Farmers' elevator companies (T344)
28	34	Farm elevator study (T345)
28	35	Threserman's reports (T346)
28	36	Food Preparedness program (T347)
28	37	Grain marketing (T348)
28	38	Dockage for cracked wheat and screenings (T349)
28	39	Binder's twine (T350)
28	40	Livestock marketing (including livestock cooperative shipping associations) (T351)
28	41	Feeder cattle (T352)
28	42	Hogs (T353)
28	43	Horses (T354)
28	44	Meat dealers, list of (T355)
28	45	Wool (T356)
28	46	Sugar-beet by-products feeding (T357)
28	47	Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - miscellany (T358)
28	48	Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - questionnaires (T359)
28	49	Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - correspondence (T360)
28	50-51	Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Dec 1917-Aug 1918 (T361,362)
29	1-5	Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Sept 1918-1919 (T363-367)
29	6	Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Lots bd. 5, 10, Cd 6, 11, 12 (T368)
29	7	Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Lots Ce 2, 4, 5 (T369)
29	8	Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Lot Ce 6 (T370)
29	9	Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Lots 8, 9, 11, 12, Df (T371)
29	10	Transportation - motor truck, Opheim, car shortage, embargos, grazing in transit rates, other special rates (T372)
29	11	Drought area reduced rates - miscellany (directors, circulars, etc.) (T373)
29	12	Correspondence (drought area reduced rates) (T374)	1918 February-September
29	13	Drought area reduced rates - correspondence (T375)	1918 October-December
29	14	Drought area reduced rates - correspondence (T376)	1919 January-October
29	15	Drought area reduced rates - Rowell v Beers, Rowell v Beers and Woods (T377)
29	16	Drought area reduced rates - Joe Styhlrieter case (T378)
29	17	Drought area reduced rates - Northern Hay and Food Company (P.J. Malkerson) case (T379)
29	18	Drought area reduced rates - R. M. Froemke, Aloe, Montana, case (T380)
29	19	Drought area reduced rates - Quinn-Shepardson case (T381)
29	20	Farm loans (T382)
29	21	Seed (grain, corn, alfalfa, etc.) Miscellany (T383)
29	22	Seed questionnaire - answers to questionnaires on seed wheat, seed rye, seed corn, etc. (T384)
30	1	Seed correspondence (T385)	1917-1919
30	2	Seed correspondence (T386)	1918 February 1-15
30	3	Seed correspondence (T387)	1918 February 16-28
30	4	Seed correspondence (T388)	1918 March 1-15
30	5	Seed correspondence (T389)	1918 March 16-31
30	6	Seed correspondence (T390)	1918 April
30	7	Seed correspondence (T391)	1918 May-August
30	8	Seed correspondence (T392)	1918 September-1919 January
30	9	Form requests for grain (T393)
30	10	Gopher extermination (T394)
30	11	Shelter Belt planting (T395)
30	12	Fruit and vegetable marketing - apples, potatoes, peas, beans, sweet corn (T396)
30	13	Potatoes (T397)
30	14	Beans (T398)
30	15	Apples (T399)
30	16	Fruit and vegetable products (dehydrating plans and canneries) (T400)
30	17	Poultry (T401)
30	18	Honey and bees (T402)
30	19	Dairying (T403)
30	20	Cooperative telephone companies (T404)
30	21	Farm labor problems (T405)
30	22	Non-Partisan League (T406)
30	23	Fish, sale of (T407)
		16: Marketing Specialist, Conner, C. C. (Original Series FMC)	1930-1933
Box	Folder
30	24	Marketing program (T408)
30	25	Wilson, M. L. (T409)
30	26	Miscellaneous cooperative correspondence (T410)
30	27	Gas and oil associations (T411)
30	28	Grain marketing (general (T412)
30	29	Grain storage and freight rates on grain (T413)
30	30	High protein wheat (T414)
30	31	Canadian wheat and milling in bond (T415)
30	32	Miscellaneous elevator correspondence (T416)
30	33	Elevator study and meetings (T417)
30	34	Financial statements and articles of incorporation of Montana elevators (T418)
30	35	Farm holiday, dollar wheat plan (T419)
30	36	Various wheat marketing organizations (T420)
30	37	Farmers' National Grain Corporation (T421)
30	38	Grain Stabilization Corporation (T422)
30	39	North Pacific Grain Growers (T423)
30	40	Northwest Grain Association (T424)
30	41	Cooperative Northwest Farmers Grain Corporation (T425)
31	1	Farmers Union versus Northwest Grain Association (T426)
31	2	Montana Farmers and Independent Grain Dealers Association (T427)
31	3	Fruit and vegetable truck marketing and standardization (T428)
31	4	Fruit and vegetables - marketing, canneries (T429)
31	5	Potato marketing (T430)
31	6	Dairy products - marketing and cooperatives (T431)
31	7	Poultry and poultry products (T432)
31	8	Turkey and turkey marketing (T433)
31	9	Woolgrowers and wool marketing (T434)
31	10	Livestock marketing and finance (Intermountain Livestock Marketing Assoc., Federal Lamb Emergency Project) (T435)
31	11	Agricultural credit (general) (T436)
31	12	Drought relief (T437)
31	13	Hay and feed situation (T438)
31	14	Seed situation (T439)
31	15	Seed marketing (T440)
31	16	Land utilization (T441)
31	17	Farm relief plans and allotment plan (T442)
31	18	Women's and curb markets (T443)
31	19	Miscellany (T444)
31	20	Material donated by Miss Letta Conser, Washington, D. C. (T445)
		17: Statistician, Patton, S. (Original Series FST)	1925-1927
Box	Folder
31	21	Miscellaneous requests and other miscellaneous correspondence (T446)
31	22	Wilson, M. L. (T447)
31	23	Circular letters (T448)
31	24	Agricultural programs (T449)
31	25	Montana agricultural outlook (T450)
31	26	Dairying and poultry data (T451)
31	27	Flax (T452)
31	28	Land (T453)
31	29	Livestock information requests (T454)
31	30	Weather data (T455)
31	31	Wheat prices, hedging, protein content and other data (T456)
		18: State B. A. E. Representative, Haight, R. B. (Original Series GA)	1937-1942
Box	Folder
31	32	Disposition of records (U1)
31	33	Miscellaneous correspondence, A-F (U2)	1937-1939
31	34	Miscellaneous correspondence, G-M (U3)	1937-1939
31	35	Miscellaneous correspondence, P (U4)	1937-1939
31	36	Miscellaneous correspondence, R-T (U5)	1937-1939
31	37	Miscellaneous correspondence, W-Z (U6)	1937-1939
31	38	Minutes of Land Grant College, B. A. E. committee (U7)
32	1	State Agricultural Planning Committee - minutes (U8)
32	2	State Land Use Advisory Committee - minutes (U9)
32	3	Mount Weather Agreement (U10)
32	4	Budgets (U11)	1939-1940
32	5	Project funds (U12)
32	6	Directories (U13)
32	7	Miscellaneous resettlement administration reports (U14)
32	8	Conference reports (U15)
32	9	Conference reports - Black Hills (U16)	1938 August 25-30
32	10	WPA research project (U17)
32	11	Highway data (U18)
32	12	State programs (U19)
32	13	Activity statements (U20)
32	14	Miscellaneous land use planning reports (U21)
32	15	Old N. R. B. reports (U22)
32	16	Development and analysis of materials, area land use planning (U23)
32	17	Cooperative relationships with other agencies (U24)
32	18	Great Plans Committee report (U25)
32	19	Northern Great Plains tour (U26)	1939 August 20-25
32	20	Educational reports (U27)
32	21	Radio talks - "The Great Plains: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" (U28)
32	22	Press releases - news articles (U29)
32	23	Methods used in assembling and coordinating data (U30)
32	24	Land use planning program (U31)
32	25-26	Monthly progress report, Montana (U32,U33)	1939
32	27	Progress reports, BAE, Montana (U34)	1940
32	28	Migration study (U35)
32	29	County data folder, Beaverhead (U36)
32	30	County data folder, Big Horn (U37)
32	31	County data folder, Blaine (U38)
32	32	County data folder, Broadwater (U39)
32	33	County data folder, Carbon (U40)
32	34	County data folder, Carter (U41)
32	35	County data folder, Cascade (U42)
32	36	County data folder, Chouteau (U43)
32	37	County data folder, Custer (U44)
32	38	County data folder, Daniels (U45)
32	39	County data folder, Dawson (U46)
32	40	County data folder, Deer Lodge (U47)
32	41	County data folder, Fallon (U48)
33	1	County data folder, Fergus (U49)
33	2	County data folder, Flathead (U50)
33	3	County data folder, Gallatin (U51)
33	4	County data folder, Garfield (U52)
33	5	County data folder, Glacier (U53)
33	6	County data folder, Golden Valley (U54)
33	7	County data folder, Granite (U55)
33	8	County data folder, Hill (U56)
33	9	County data folder, Jefferson (U57)
33	10	County data folder, Judith Basin (U58)
33	11	County data folder, Lake (U59)
33	12	County data folder, Lewis and Clark (U60)
33	13	County data folder, Liberty (U61)
33	14	County data folder, Lincoln (U62)
33	15	County data folder, McCone (U63)
33	16	County data folder, Madison (U64)
33	17	County data folder, Meagher (U65)
33	18	County data folder, Mineral (U66)
33	19	County data folder, Missoula (U67)
33	20	County data folder, Musselshell (U68)
33	21	County data folder, Park (U69)
33	22	County data folder, Petroleum (U70)
33	23	County data folder, Phillips (U71)
33	24	County data folder, Pondera (U72)
33	25	County data folder, Powder River (U73)
33	26	County data folder, Powell (U74)
33	27	County data folder, Prairie (U75)
33	28	County data folder, Ravalli (U76)
33	29	County data folder, Richland (U77)
33	30	County data folder, Roosevelt (U78)
33	31	County data folder, Rosebud (U79)
33	32	County data folder, Sanders (U80)
33	33	County data folder, Sheridan (U81)
33	34	County data folder, Silver Bow (U82)
33	35	County data folder, Stillwater (U83)
33	36	County data folder, Sweet Grass (U84)
33	37	County data folder, Teton (U85)
33	38	County data folder, Toole (U86)
33	39	County data folder, Treasure (U87)
33	40	County data folder, Valley (U88)
33	41	County data folder, Wheatland (U89)
33	42	County data folder, Wibaux (U90)
33	43	County data folder, Yellowstone (U91)
33	44	Wheat data (U92)
33	45	Wheat allotment data (U93)
34	1	Wheat charts and maps (U94)
34	2	Acres, bushels, yield, operators, tenancy, Montana cash grain access (U95)
34	3	Acreage, yield and production - various crops (U96)
34	4	A. A. A. crop data by county and township - also number of animal units (U97)
34	5	Livestock production (U98)
34	6	Land use (various summaries) (U99)
34	7	Land ownership (U100)
34	8	Land classification - soils, types of farms, grazing land (U101)
34	9	Farm records (U102)
34	10	Mimeographed publications - Experiment Station (U103)
34	11	Number of farms, acres, ownership for selected counties (U104)
34	12	Directional measures (U105)
34	13	Grazing districts (U106)
34	14	Leasing agreements with grazing districts (U107)
34	15-16	Purchase projects (U108-U109)
34	17	Milk River - Northern Area (U110)
34	18	Purchase projects - Phillips County, Malta, Homestead Project (U111)
34	19	Land purchase - Fallon and Custer county (U112)
34	20	Land purchase - Fergus County (U113)
34	21	Proposed land use adjustment projects, 1928-1940 (U114)
34	22	Agricultural credit study - Fergus County (U115)
34	23	Buffalo Creek grazing district (U116)
34	24	R. A. Project Sun River (U117)
34	25	Farm finance (U118)
34	26	Farm - debt adjustment notes (U119)
34	27	Land valuation (U120)
34	28	Tables - crop, feed and drought loans (U121)
34	29	Prices on Montana products (U122)
34	30	Farm income - value of products sold by areas (U123)
34	31	Income summary sheet by areas (U124)	1935
34	32	Public finance (U125)
34	33	Assessment data (U126)
34	34	Agricultural adjustment administration (U127)
34	35	County planning meetings (U128)
34	36	County planning program (U129)
34	37	Type-of-farming study: Neil Johnson (U130)
34	38	Fergus bulletin, land use planning (U131)
34	39	Agricultural planning materials (U132)
34	40	Discussion groups (U133)
34	41	Land use planning meetings (U134)
34	42	Cooperative agreements (U135)
34	43	Rural electrification (U136)
34	44	Water facilities (U137)

8: Fairway Farms Corporation Records, 1924-1943Return to Top

The following series deals with the Fairway Farm Corporation and its associated farms. The Fairway Farms project was financed by grants secured by M.L. Wilson and was a unique experiment to demonstrate Wilson's concepts regarding agricultural organization, financing, and dry farming techniques. Nine individual units were purchased and operated between 1924 and 1945, adapted to the land and water resources and type of farming for their particular area. The records in this series document the corporations initial organization and financing and were intended in part to show that Wilson's concepts regarding dry land farming could be successful. The various subseries described pertain to the corporation's organization, financial matters, publicity, relations with other farming organizations, the Rockefeller foundation (one of the chief granting agencies for the project) and the operation of the individual farms of Cloverleaf, Comanche, Lone Warrior, Richland, Rosebud, Taiyan, Wiota, Woanlo, and Yanktonai.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		1: Corporation Organization (Original Series SA)
Box	Folder
35	1	Prospective lands and lands offered for purchase (AA1)
35	2	Prospective lands and lands offered for purchase (AA2)	1924
35	3	Prospective lands and lands offered for purchase (AA3)	1925-1927
35	4	Prospective lands - Bilstad properties (AA4)
35	5	Prospective lands - Cashman place (AA5)
35	6	Prospective lands - sheep farm (AA6)
35	7-8	Prospective tenants (AA7,AA8)
35	9	Suggested names for farms (AA9)
35	10	Mike Stolz and Gerald Probach (AA10)
35	11	Applications for work on farms (AA11)	1924-1931
35	12	Buildings (AA12)
35	13	Farms - general materials (AA13)
		2: Financial Matters and Taxation (Original Series SB & SC)
Box	Folder
35	14	Fairway accounts correspondence (AB1)
35	15	Orders (AB2)
35	16	Financial reports (AB3)	1925-1931
35	17	Financial reports (AB4)	1932-1935
35	18-21	Summaries (AB5-AB8)
35	22	Bills outstanding - all farms (AB9)
35	23-24	Transfer from voucher register and daily cash book of the Fairway Farm Corporation (AB10-AB11)
35	25	Marshall, L.C., Treasurer (AB12)
35	26	Vandenhook, Charles, Treasurer (AB13)	1924-1931
35	27	Vandenhook, Charles, Treasurer (AB14)	1942-1945
35	28	Commercial National Bank (AB15)
35	29	Miscellaneous financial correspondence (AB16)
35	30	Wilson-Starch accounts (AB17)
35	31	Federal income tax (AC1)
35	32	Corporation license tax (AC2)
35	33	Capital stock tax (AC3)
35	34	Fairway Farms' tax statements and assessment lists (AC4)
35	35	Taxes on loaned machinery (AC5)
		3: Publicity (Original Series SD)
Box	Folder
35	36	Publicity on Fairway (AD1)
35	37	Articles by M. C. Cutting (AD2)
		4: SerReports on Research and Farming Activities (Original Series SE)
Box	Folder
36	1	Correspondence regarding analysis diesel fuel (AE1)
36	2-3	Tractor farming experiments (AE2,AE3)
36	4	Operations of caterpillar diesel 50 (AE4)
36	5	Low-grade fuel experiments (AE5)
36	6	Analysis of Montana crude oil from Public Service Commission (AE6)
36	7	Gas consumption per tractor hour (AE7)
36	8	Weather data (AE8)
36	9	Moisture determinations (AE9)
36	10	Field operations and yields (AE10)
36	11	Labor report (AE11)
		5: Extension-Type Activities (Original Series SF) This subseries deals with projects undertaken or supported by the Fairway Farms that could be considered Extension service in nature. These would be mostly rural outreach programs intended to help people and sell them on the concepts being practiced at the Farms.
Box	Folder
36	12	Brockton Field Day (AF1)	1929
36	13	Older Boys Visitation Day (AF2)
36	14	Spring wheat regional conference (AF3)	1930
		6: Special Correspondence with Cooperators (Original Series SG)
Box	Folder
36	15	Campbell (T. D.) Farming Corporation - Fairway, leases (AG1)
36	16	Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Railroad (AG2)
36	17	Great Northern Railroad (AG3)
36	18	Northern Pacific Railway Company (AG4)
		7: Organizations, General (Original Series SH) This subseries deals with correspondence and other issues with groups outside the Fairway operation that did not have a directly cooperating role.
Box	Folder
36	19	Papers, records, etc. (AH1)
36	20	Parsons notes (AH2)
36	21	Forms (AH3)
36	22	By-laws and articles of Incorporation (AH4)
36	23	Explanation of organization, progress, etc. (AH5)	1924-1928
36	24	Explanation of organization, progress, etc. (AH6)	1929-1934
36	25-26	Advice on similar projects (AH7,AH8)	1924-1933
36	27	Northwest Land and Finance Corp. (AH9)
36	28-29	Board of Directors (AH10,AH11)	1924-1936
36	30-31	Board of Directors (AH12,AH13)	1936-1944
36	32-34	Miscellaneous Fairway reports and materials (AH14-AH16)
36	35-36	Reorganization proposal (AH17,AH18)	1935
36	37	Miscellaneous early correspondence (AH19)
36	38	Correspondence of significance with relation to general agricultural policy (AH20)
		8: Rockefeller Foundation (Original Series SI)
Box	Folder
36	39	Rockefeller Foundation (General) (AI1)
36	40	Beardsley Ruml, 1923-1928 (AI2)
36	41	Arthur Packard, 1930-1933 (AI3)
36	42	Harold F. Fabian, 1930-1933 (AI4)
36	43	Rockefeller Foundation - Farm Foundation (AI5)	1937-1946
		9: Board of Directors, Individual Correspondence, etc. (Original Series SJ)
Box	Folder
36	44	C. C. Davis (AJ1)
36	45	Richard T. Ely (AJ2)
36	46	L. C. Gray (AJ3)
37	1	J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Wilson (AJ4)	1925 February
37	2	J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Wilson (AJ5)	1925 March-December
37	3	J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Wilson (AJ6)	1926
37	4	J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Wilson (AJ7)	1927-1929
37	5	J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Wilson (AJ8)	1930
37	6	J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Stippler (AJ9)
37	7	J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Taylor-Ackerman (AJ10)	1941-1943
37	8	J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Starch (AJ11)	1929-1938
37	9	J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Renne-Parson (AJ12)	1941-1943
37	10	Walter D. Hartman, Fairway attorney (AJ13)
37	11	A. Vaux (AJ14)
		10: H. C. Taylor and Farm Foundation Correspondence (Original Series SK)
Box	Folder
37	12	Wilson-Renne (AK1)	1942
37	13	Taylor-Wilson (AK2)	1923-1926
37	14	Taylor-Wilson (AK3)	1927
37	15	Taylor-Wilson (AK4)	1928-1941
37	16	Taylor-Renne-Starch (AK5)	1941-1963
37	17	Taylor-Starch (AK6)
37	18	Taylor-Budd (AK7)
37	19	Taylor-Duncan-Ackerman (AK8)
37	20	Ackerman-Renne-Parsons (AK9)
37	21	Strand-Taylor-Renne (AK10)
		11: Miscellaneous Individual Correspondence (Original Series SL)
Box	Folder
37	22	Chancellor Brannon: Brannon-Wilson (AL1)
37	23	Atkinson-Wilson (AL2)
37	24	Hamilton-Wilson (AL3)
37	25	Linfield-Humphrey (AL4)
37	26	McKee-Renne (AL5)
37	27	V. D. Gilman (AL6)
37	28	E. H. Lott (AL7)
37	29	George Morgan (AL8)
37	30	H. B. Bonebright (AL9)
37	31	Parsons-Renne (AL10)	1941-1943
37	32	A. E. Seamans (AL11)
37	33	Starch-Wilson (AL12)	1927-1928
37	34	Starch-Wilson (AL13)	1929-1933
37	35	Starch-office (AL14)
37	36	Starch-Renne-Parsons (AL15)
37	37-38	H. H. Stippler (AL16,AL17)
		12: Purchases and Loans (Original Series SM, SN, SO) This subseries deals with the various purchases made by the Fairway Farms project. It combines three shorter series in the original finding aid in an effort to make the collection more unified. These subseries were originally divided between Machinery (SM), Supplies (SN), and Seeds (SO).
Box	Folder
37	39-40	General correspondence, A-H (AM1,AM2)
37	41-42	General correspondence, I-Z (AM3,AM4)
37	43	Allis Chalmers Tractor Company (AM5)
37	44	American Grain Separator Company (AM6)
37	45	Calkins Manufacturing Company (AM7)
37	46	J. I. Case Company (AM8)
38	1-3	Caterpillar Tractor Company (AM9-AM11)
38	4	Chase Plow Company (AM12)
38	5	Cheney Weeder Company (AM13)
38	6	Connelly Machinery Company (AM14)
38	7	Deere Webber Company (AM15)
38	8	Hall-Perry Machinery Company (AM16)
38	9	Howell Manufacturing Company (AM17)
38	10	International Harvester Company, Billings (AM18)
38	11	International Harvester Company, Bismarck (AM19)
38	12-13	International Harvester Company, Chicago (AM20,AM21)
38	14	International Harvester Company, Helena (AM22)
38	15-16	International Harvester Company, Minot (AM23,AM24)
38	17	International Harvester Company, Williston (AM25)
38	18	La Crosse Plow Company (AM26)
38	19	N. P. Larsen Implement Company (AM27)
38	20	Light Draft Harrow Company (AM28)
38	21	Midland Implement Company (AM29)
38	22	Minneapolis Moline Power Implement Company (AM30)
38	23	Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company (AM31)
38	24	Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company (AM32)
38	25	Oliver Plow Company (AM33)
38	26	Western Harvester Company (AM34)
38	27	Wilberg Plow Attachment Company (AM35)
38	28	Miscellaneous (AN1)
38	29	Continental Oil Company (AN2)
38	30	Farmers Lumber Company (AN3)
38	31	Frazer Oil and Motor Company, Lien Sales Company (AN4)
38	32	Monarch Lumber Company (AN5)
38	33	Westland Oil Company (AN6)	1926-1932
38	34	Westland Oil Company (AN7)	1933-1938
38	35	Westland Oil Company (farm foundation file) (AN8)
38	36	Yale Oil Corporation (AN9)
38	37	Alfalfa seed (AO1)
38	38	Corn (AO2)
38	39	Flax and oats (AO3)
38	40	Garden seeds and trees (AO4)
38	41	Grass seed (AO5)
39	1	Potatoes (AO6)
39	2	Spring rye and sweet clover (AO7)
39	3	Supreme wheat and barley
39	4	Wheat (AO8)
39	5	Karl Reddick (AO10)
		13: Wheat and Seed Sales and Livestock (Original Series SP and SQ)
Box	Folder
39	6	Alfalfa seed (AP1)
39	7	Seed corn (AP2)
39	8-10	Wheat sales, general (AP3-AP5)
39	11	H. F. Shepardson Co. (AP6)
39	12	Soil conservation and AAA data (AP7)
39	13	Wheat allotment - Lone Warrior (AP8)	1933
39	14	Wheat allotment - Richland (AP9)	1933
39	15	Wheat allotment - Taiyan (AP10)	1933
39	16	Wheat allotment - Wiota (AP11)	1933
39	17	Livestock (general) (AQ1)
39	18	Brands (AQ2)
		14: Indian Lands (Original Series SR) This subseries deals with correspondence and papers regarding the use of Indian lands in the Fairway project. Some farms are specifically mentioned, while other folders concern general questions.
Box	Folder
39	19	Fort Peck farms (Lone Warrior, Taiyan, Wiota) (AR1)	1925-1927
39	20	Fort Peck Indian Agency(AR2)	1926-1932
39	21	Fort Peck Indian Agency (AR3)
39	22	Fort Peck Indian Agency, reclamation service (AR4)
39	23	Leases (AR5)
39	24	Mollie Cleveland Eagleman, Lessor - Lone Warrior Farm (AR6)
39	25	Eagle Feather, Lessor - Taiyan Farm (AR7)
39	26	Thomas Firemoon, Lessor - Taiyan Farm (AR8)
39	27	Iron Horn, Lessor - Taiyan Farm (AR9)
39	28	Stonewall Jackson, Lessor - Taiyan Farm (AR10)
39	29	Thomas Melborn, Lessor - Lone Warrior Farm (AR11)
39	30	H. J. Nichols, Lessor - Wiota Farm (AR12)
		15: Cloverleaf Farm (Original Series SS-1) This subseries deals with records directly relating to the Cloverleaf Farm, one of the Fairway Farms. Reports, inventories, crop yields and statistics, and other pertinent information directly dealing with the Cloverleaf Farm can be found here.
Box	Folder
39	31	Reports (AS1)
39	32	Miscellaneous charts and prints (AS2)
39	33	Miscellaneous memoranda (AS3)
39	34	Inventories (AS4)
39	35	Miscellaneous statistical and financial data (AS5)
39	36	Crop yields and cropping plans (AS6)
39	37-38	Farm produce used in the home (AS7,AS8)	1926-1934
39	39-40	Receipts and expenditures (AS9,AS10)
39	41	Weather data (AS11)
39	42	Miscellaneous contracts, deeds, etc.(AS12)
39	43	Correspondence (AS13)	1924-1925
40	1	Correspondence (AS14)	1926
40	2	Correspondence (AS15)	1927
40	3	Correspondence (AS16)	1928-1940
		16: Comanche Farm (Original Series SS-2) This subseries deals with records directly relating to the Comanche Farm, one of the Fairway Farms. Reports, inventories, crop yields and statistics, and other pertinent information directly dealing with the Comanche Farm can be found here.
Box	Folder
40	4	Comanche - notes (AS17)
40	5-6	Reports (AS18-AS20)
40	7-8	Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc.(AS21)
40	9	Miscellaneous contracts, deeds, etc.(AS22)
40	10	Miscellaneous memoranda (AS23)
40	11	Miscellaneous data - statistical, financial (AS24)
40	12	Crop yields and cropping plans (AS25)
40	13	Inventories (AS26)
40	14	Labor reports, daily (AS27)
40	15-16	Receipts and expenditures (AS28,AS29)
40	17	Weather data (AS30)
40	18	General correspondence (AS31)	1924-1925
40	19	General correspondence (AS32)	1925
40	20	General correspondence (AS33)	1926
40	21	General correspondence (AS34)	1927
40	22	General correspondence (AS35)	1928
40	23	General correspondence (AS36)	1929
40	24	General correspondence (AS37)	1930
40	25	General correspondence (AS38)	1931
40	26	General correspondence (AS39)	1932-1937
40	27	Correspondence re Heffelflinger Bond issued, Schug loan (AS40)	1925-1929
40	28	Correspondence re Heffelflinger Bond issued, Schug loan (AS41)	1930-1937
		17: Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton (Original Series SS-3) This subseries deals with records directly relating to the Lone Warrior Farm, one of the Fairway Farms. Reports, inventories, crop yields and statistics, and other pertinent information directly dealing with the Lone Warrior Farm can be found here.
Box	Folder
40	29-30	Reports (AS42,AS43)
41	1	Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc.(AS44)
41	2	Miscellaneous contracts, deed, leases, etc.(AS45)
41	3	Miscellaneous (AS46)
41	4-5	Miscellaneous statistical and financial data (AS47,AS48)
41	6	Crop yields and cropping plans (AS49)
41	7	Inventories (AS50)
41	8	Loaned machinery (AS51)
41	9	Receipts and expenditures (AS52)
41	10	Proprietors or Superintendents daily reports (AS53)
41	11	Regular daily worker reports (AS54)
41	12	Daily tractor reports (AS55)
41	13	Weather data (AS56)
41	14	General correspondence (AS57)	1925-1926
41	15	General correspondence (AS58)	1927
41	16	General correspondence (AS59)	1928
41	17	General correspondence (AS60)	1929
41	18	General correspondence (AS61)	1930
41	19	General correspondence (AS62)	1931-1932
41	20	General correspondence (AS63)	1933-1938
41	21	General correspondence (AS64)	1940-1942
41	22	Liquidation (AS65)	1943-1944
41	23	Ray W. Pilling (AS66)	1926-1940
		18: Richland Farm (Original Series SS-4) This subseries deals with records directly relating to the Richland Farm, one of the Fairway Farms. Reports, inventories, crop yields and statistics, and other pertinent information directly dealing with the Richland Farm can be found here.
Box	Folder
41	24-25	Reports (AS67,AS68)
41	26	Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc.(AS69)
41	27	Miscellaneous contracts, deeds, etc.(AS70)
41	28	Miscellaneous memoranda (AS71)
41	29	Miscellaneous statistical and financial data (AS72)
41	30	Crop yields and cropping plants (AS73)
41	31	Inventories (AS74)
41	32	Receipts and expenditures (AS75)
41	33	Weather data (AS76)
41	34	Correspondence (AS77)	1924-1926
41	35	Correspondence (AS78)	1927-1928
41	36	Correspondence (AS79)	1929-1930
41	37	Correspondence (AS80)	1931
41	38	Correspondence (AS81)	1932-1940
		19: Rosebud Farm (Original Series SS-5) This subseries deals with records directly relating to the Rosebud Farm, one of the Fairway Farms. Reports, inventories, crop yields and statistics, and other pertinent information directly dealing with the Rosebud Farm can be found here.
Box	Folder
41	39-41	Reports (AS82-AS84)
41	42	Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc.(AS85)
41	43	Miscellaneous contracts, deeds, etc.(AS86)
42	1	Miscellaneous memoranda (AS87)
42	2	Miscellaneous statistical and financial data (AS88)
42	3	Crop yields and cropping plans (AS89)
42	4	Inventories (AS90)
42	5	Receipts and expenditures (AS91)
42	6	Weather data (AS92)
42	7	Correspondence (AS93)	1924-1925
42	8	Correspondence (AS94)	1925
42	9	Correspondence (AS95)	1926
42	10	Correspondence (AS96)	1927
42	11	Correspondence (AS97)	1928-1936
		20: Taiyan Farm (Original Series SS-6) This subseries deals with records directly relating to the Taiyan Farm, one of the Fairway Farms. Reports, inventories, crop yields and statistics, and other pertinent information directly dealing with the Taiyan Farm can be found here.
Box	Folder
42	12-13	Reports (AS98, AS99)
42	14	Miscellaneous charts (AS100)
42	15	Miscellaneous contracts, leases, etc.(AS101)
42	16	Miscellaneous memoranda (AS102)
42	17	Miscellaneous statistical data, financial statements, etc.(AS103)
42	18	Crop yields and cropping plans (AS104)
42	19	Farm produce used in the home (AS105)
42	20	Inventory (AS106)
42	21	Statement of receipts and expenditures (AS107)
42	22	Proprietors and superintendent's daily reports (AS108)
42	23	Regular workers' daily reports (AS109)
42	24	Daily tractor reports (AS110)
42	25	Weather data (AS111)
42	26	Assembled correspondence (AS112)	1925-1926
42	27	Assembled correspondence (AS113)	1926
42	28	Assembled correspondence (AS114)	1927-1928
42	29	Assembled correspondence (AS115)	1928-1933
42	30	Assembled correspondence (AS116)	1933-1938
42	31	Liquidation (AS117)	1939-1944
		21: Wiota Farm (Original Series SS-7) This subseries deals with records directly relating to the Wiota Farm, one of the Fairway Farms. Reports, inventories, crop yields and statistics, and other pertinent information directly dealing with the Wiota Farm can be found here.
Box	Folder
42	32-34	Reports (AS118-120)
42	35	Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc. (AS121)
42	36	Miscellaneous contracts, deeds, etc. (AS122)
42	37	Miscellaneous statistical and financial data (AS123)
42	38	Receipts and expenditures (AS124)
42	39	Crop yields and cropping plans (AS125)
42	40	Inventories (AS126)
42	41	Weather data (AS127)
42	42	General correspondence (AS128)	1924
43	1	General correspondence (AS129)	1925
43	2	General correspondence (AS130)	1926
43	3	General correspondence (AS131)	1927-1929
43	4	General correspondence (AS132)	1930-1935
43	5	General correspondence (AS133)	1936-1943
		22: Woanlo Farm (Original Series SS-8) This subseries deals with records directly relating to the Woanlo Farm, one of the Fairway Farms. Reports, inventories, crop yields and statistics, and other pertinent information directly dealing with the Woanlo Farm can be found here.
Box	Folder
43	6-8	Reports (AS134-AS136)
43	9	Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc. (AS137)
43	10	Miscellaneous contracts, agreements, etc. (AS138)
43	11	Miscellaneous memoranda (AS139)
43	12	Miscellaneous financial data, financial statements, etc. (AS140)
43	13	Crop yields and cropping plans (AS141)
43	14	Inventories (AS142)
43	15	Receipts, expenditures (AS143)
43	16	Weather reports (AS144)
43	17	F.E. McSpadden, tenant (AS145)	1924-1926
43	18	F.E. McSpadden, tenant (AS146)	1927-1943
		23: Yanktonai (Cartee-Bureau) Farm (Original Series SS-90) This subseries deals with records directly relating to the Yanktonai Farm, one of the Fairway Farms. Reports, inventories, crop yields and statistics, and other pertinent information directly dealing with the Yanktonai Farm can be found here.
Box	Folder
43	19-20	Reports (AS147,AS148)
43	21	Miscellaneous charts, pictures, etc.(AS149)
43	22	Miscellaneous contracts, agreements, etc.(AS150)
43	23	Miscellaneous statistical data, finance reports, etc.(AS151)
43	24	Crop yields and cropping plans (AS152)
43	25	Inventories (AS153)
43	26	Receipts and expenditures (AS154)
43	27	Weather data (AS155)
43	28	Correspondence (AS156)	1924-1925
43	29	Correspondence (AS157)	1926-1927
43	30	Correspondence (AS158)	1928-1929
43	31	Correspondence (AS159)	1930-1933
		24: Farm Account Books and Misc. Financial Statistics (Original Series ST, SV, R) This subseries contains many of the original financial records and ledgers generated by the various Fairway Farms.
Box	Folder
43	32	Voucher register and daily cash book (AT5)	1937-1945
43	33	General records as to leases, insurance policies, notes payable (AT6)
43	34	Lone Warrior ledger (AT7)	1932-1933
43	35	Lone Warrior journal (AT8)
43	36	Lone Warrior, labor and expense - wheat (AT9)	1932-1933
43	37	Lone Warrior, financial statement (AT10)	1933-1937
44	1-2	Account summary (AT1,AT2)	1924-1943
44	3	Bills payable (AT3)	1925-1928
44	4	Ledger (AT4)	1929, 1945
44	5	Journal sheets (AU1)	1924-1928
44	6	Deposit and payments sheet from the daily cash book (AU2)	1932-1933
45	1	Seven Twedt, Hingham and Rudyard: Labor	1926
45	2	Seven Twedt, Hingham and Rudyard: Labor, expenses, receipts	1927
45	3	Seven Twedt, Hingham and Rudyard: Labor	1928
45	4	Seven Twedt, Hingham and Rudyard: Expenses, inventories	1930
45	5	Seven Twedt, Hingham and Rudyard: Receipts, expenses, produce used	1929
45	6	F. S. Davies, Comanche: Labor	1925-1926
45	7	F. S. Davies, Comanche: Labor	1927
45	8	F. S. Davies, Comanche: Labor	1928
45	9	F. S. Davies, Comanche: Labor, receipts and expenses, inventory	1929
45	10	F. S. Davies, Comanche: Labor, receipts and expenses, inventory	1930
45	11	Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton: Labor	1928-1929
45	12	Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton: Labor	1929-1932
45	13	Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton: Tractor records	1929-1933
45	14	Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton: Tractor records	1928-1933
45	15-16	Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton: Tractor and implement records	1929-1933
45	17	Richland Farms and Pete Smith: Richland Farms, inventory	1925
45	18	Richland Farms and Pete Smith: Pete Smith, Sidney	1927-1929
45	19	Vanderschall, Forsyth: Labor, receipts, inventory	1926
45	20	Vanderschall, Forsyth: Labor, inventories	1927
45	21	Vanderschall, Forsyth: Labor, etc.	1928
45	22	Vanderschall, Forsyth: Expenses	1929-1930
45	23	Vanderschall, Forsyth: Labor, expenses	1930
45	24	A. G. Cleveland - Taiyan, Bank Farm, Ft. Peck: Records	1928-1929
45	25	A. G. Cleveland - Taiyan, Bank Farm, Ft. Peck: Records	1926
45	26	A. G. Cleveland - Taiyan, Bank Farm, Ft. Peck: (Frazer, Mont.) Labor	1927
45	27	B. I. Barnes, Nashua: Labor	1927
45	28	B. I. Barnes, Nashua: Labor	1928
45	29	B. I. Barnes, Nashua: Labor	1929
45	30	B. I. Barnes, Nashua: Labor, etc.	1930
45	31	F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Labor, etc.	1926
45	32	F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Labor, etc.	1927
45	33	F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Labor, etc.	1928
45	34	F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Records	1928
45	35	F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Labor, etc.	1929
45	36	F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Labor, etc.	1930
45	37	W .E. Cartee, Whitetail, MT: Labor, etc.	1928

9: Miscellaneous Records, 1925-1946Return to Top

A note on the original finding aid states that these items were found in the closet of the office of the Dean and Director in 1974. They mainly deal with the Fairway Farms project, focusing on reports and the financial dealings of the farms and the corporation. In addition, copies of the 1926 Fairway Farms Project booklet and a plan by M. L. Wilson for wheat demonstration in the North Caucasus, USSR.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
46	1	E.A. Starch, Correspondence	1935-1938
46	2	E.A.Starch, Correspondence	1939
46	3	E.A.Starch, Correspondence	1940
46	4	E.A.Starch, Correspondence	1941
46	5	E.A.Starch, Miscellaneous materials
46	6	E.A.Starch, Finished Business
46	7	J. L. Humphrey, Correspondence	1924-1927
46	8	Vouchers	1924-1929
46	9	Financial Statements	1930
46	10	Status of Each Unit	1931
46	11-14	Summary of Accounts	1942
46	15	Financial Charts	1925-1936
46	16	Farm Unit Animal Reports	1927
46	17	Summary of Corporation Accounts	1933-1934
46	18	Financial Statement	1926
46	19	Farm Reports, Cloverleaf, Davis	1926
46	20	Farm Reports, Lone Warrior, Richland, Rosebud	1926
46	21	Farm Reports, Taiyan, Wiota, Woanlo, Yanktonai	1926
46	22	Financial Statements (incomplete)	1925-1926
46	23	Financial Statements (incomplete)	1925-1946
46	24-25	Miscellaneous Correspondence
46	26	The Fairway Farms Project (3 copies)	1926
46	27	Suggested Plan and System of Operation of Demonstration Wheat Sorhoz at Verblude, North Caucasus, USSR 1929	1929
46	28	Suggested Plan and System of Operation of Demonstration Wheat Sorhoz at Verblude, North Caucasus, USSR 1929	1929
46	29	Suggested Plan and system of Operation of Demonstration Wheat Sorhoz at Verblude, North Caucasus, USSR 1929	1929

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Subject Terms

Agriculture, Cooperative-Montana
Agriculture-Economic aspects-Study and teaching (Higher)-Montana
Agriculture-Technological innovations
Dry farming-Economic aspects
Dry farming-Technological innovations

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