MZFMSU00002.xml Guide to the Agricultural Economics Department Records 1912-1949 Agricultural Economics Department Records Kim Allen Scott, 2009. Updated by Heather Mulliner, 2022. Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Montana State University Library, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscript Collections 2022
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-09-19. Finding aid written in English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) Montana State University Library, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscript Collections Agricultural Economics Department Records MSU.00002 56.4 linear feet 1912-1949 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. Collection materials are in English

This collection is open for research.

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

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.

This collection was processed 2009 April 28

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.

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.

 Agriculture, Cooperative-Montana Agriculture-Economic aspects-Study and teaching (Higher)-Montana Agriculture-Technological innovations Dry farming-Economic aspects Dry farming-Technological innovations Agriculture Colleges and Universities Montana Bozeman Currier/Wilson Administration files 1 1916-1934

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.

 E. L. Currier files (Original Series C) 1 1916-1925 General and miscellaneous correspondence. 1917-1925 1 1 Departmental organization and routine, staff & staff changes 1916-1919, 1920-1925 1 2-3 Budgets - inclusive 1916-1924 1 4 Teaching activities of the department 1917-1925 1 5 Farm & home week 1923 1 6 High school farm management & accounting courses 1917-1923 1 7 County agent farm management & accounting courses 1921-1924 1 8 Correspondence with county agents & others re: use, by farmers of account books & other such records 1916-1924 1 9 Publication & distribution of farm account books 1917-1918, 1919-1922 1 11-10 Correspondence with individual farmers re: farm records, cost accounting method, income tax, etc. 1919-1920, 1921-1923 1 12-15 Farm accounting textbook - N. J. Lennes & Currier 1920-1924 1 16 Settlement problems in correspondence with prospective settlers 1916-1924 1 17 Miscellaneous correspondence re: requests for general agricultural information 1917-1925 1 18 Miscellaneous correspondence re: advice to farmers on specific problems 1917-1919, 1920-1925 1 19-20 Advice to farmers re: farm managers, profit-sharing, rental systems, bases, etc. 1917-1920, 1921-1925 1 21-22 Farm labor problems 1917-1919 1 23 Farm labor problems - individual requests for work 1917-1920 1 24 Survey & investigational work (personal & misc.) 1917-1924 1 25 School survey 1 26 Farm labor & agricultural survey 1918 1 27 Dry-land farm - success surveys (Triangle & Daniels & Sheridan Co.) 1 28 Sugar beet problems 1919-1926 1 29 Farm enterprise survey - Yellowstone Valley (sugar beets) 1917-1918 1 30 Farm reorganization & development project 1924 1 31 Cost of production studies & data (general & misc. correspondence) 1917-1925 1 32 Montana - USDA - co-op. cost accounting project 1919-1925 1 33 Farm income & investment studies - including data on prices for agricultural products 1917-1923 1 34 Economy of wheat production (cost of wheat studies & other data) 1917-1924 1 35 Tariff wheat survey - tariff commission correspondence 1923-1924 1 36 Farm Organization Committee - Spring Wheat Regional Conference 1923 1 37 Co-op. marketing 1924 1 38 Corn production & utilization study 1924-1925 1 39 Dairy farming in Montana 1922-1924 1 40 Beef cattle study 1925 1 41 Hog production 1924 1 42 Bitter Root [sic] Valley Farm Management & Dairy Products Survey 1922-1924 1 43 Horse power and farm mechanization studies 1917-1925 2 1 Montana Rabbit Breeders Association 1919-1924 2 2 Fox Farming 1921-1925 2 3 Model farm exhibits 1918-1924 2 4 Montana Farm Management Association 1919-1921 2 5 University Funds Campaign 1920 2 6 General Departmental Correspondence (Original Series CA) 2 1924-1933

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.

 Departmental Routine 1926-1927 2 7 Budgets 1924-1934 2 8 Prints and Films 1927-1932 2 9 Chancellor M. A. Branson 1928-1933 2 10 President Alfred Atkinson 1926-1932 2 11 Director F. B. Linfield 1925-1932 2 12 Robert C. Line, State University, Missoula 1928-1932 2 13 Staff, General 1925-1932 2 14 Bell, E. J., Jr. 1926-1931 2 15 E. L. Currier 1926-1931 2 16 Gordon Davis 1926-1927 2 17 Walter Griffith 1930 2 18 Ray B. Haight 1930-1932 2 19 Sherman Johnson 1926-1930 2 20 E. H. Lott 1925-1930 2 21 Palmer Patton 1925-1930 2 22 R. R. Renne 1930-1932 2 23 M. H. Saunderson 1927-1933 2 24 P. L. Slagsvold 1926-1933 2 25 E. A. Starch 1926-1933 2 26 Henry Stippler 1930-1933 2 27 N. Wallen 1930-1932 2 28 Henry A. Ward 1930-1932 2 29 J. C. Taylor, Director of Extension 1925-1932 2 30 Fred Bennion, County Agent Leader 1927-1932 2 31 County Agents, General and miscellaneous correspondence 1927-1932 2 32 Extension Agronomists - L. D. Kurtz, Waldo Kidder, and A. J. Ogaard 1927-1930 2 33 Extension Economist - Paul Carpenter 1928-1932 2 34 Farm Management Demonstrator - Ben F. Alvord 1927-1930 2 35 Farm Management Demonstrator - Virgil D. Gilman 1926-1932 2 36 Farm Management Demonstrator - Carl Peterson 1930-1932 2 37 Farm Management Demonstrator - Robert Tootell 1928-1940 2 38 Marketing Specialist - C. C. Conser 1929-1932 2 39 Branch Station Correspondence 1928-1930 2 40 Instructional Activities of the Department (Original Series CB) 3 1927-1932 Teaching 2 41 Epsilon Sigma Phi 1927-1932 2 42 Research and Extension Activities (Original Series CC) 4 1926-1937

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.

 Settlement promotion 1929-1930 2 43 Land Colonization Association, Canada 1927-1932 2 44 Chicago Milwaukee Railroad, Agricultural Development 1926-1933 2 45 Great Northern Railroad, Agricultural Development (O.N. "See also I. D. O'Donnell 4:18") 1926-1931 2 46 Northern Pacific Railroad, Agricultural Development 1924-1930 2 47 Indian Lands 1926-1928 3 1 Assiniboine Indians Land Investigation (includes material on Land Values) 3 2-5 Correspondence re: General Inquiries of Prospective Settlers and Statements of Farmers, Montana and elsewhere 1927-1932 3 6 Agricultural Research, General 1926-1931 3 7 Social Science Research Council, Advisory Committee on Social and Economic Research in Agriculture 3 8 Agricultural Research Foundation, Proposed (Farm Foundation) - See also Black, J. D. 1929-1931 3 9 Pacific Northwest Research Council 1931-1932 3 10 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Experiment Station Office 1926-1930 3 11 U.S.D.A., Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Niles A. Olsen 1926-1932 3 12 U.S.D.A., Bureau of Agricultural Economics, H. R. Tolley 1926-1929 3 13 Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Division of Farm Management and Costs 1928-1932 3 14 Miscellaneous Research Projects 1926-1932 3 15 Outlook Statements, Statistical Services, etc. 1925-1933 3 16 Farm Management (General) 1926-1933 3 17 American Society of Farm Managers 1931 3 18 Northwest Farm Management Association 1925-1929 3 19 Types of Farming 1926-1932 3 20 Land Utilization Projects Land Utilization Problems and Planning 1928-1932 3 21 Large Scale Corporate Farming 1928-1932 3 22-23 T.D. Campbell Farming Corporation 1928-1933 3 24 Farm Mechanization 1932-1933 3 25-26 Talks and Articles on Farm Mechanization 3 27 Farm Implement Sales and Surveys 1926-1937 3 28 Tractor Operators for Montana 1927-1930 3 29 Economic Irrigation Conference (D35) 1926-1928 3 30 Power Farming Meetings, Demonstrations, etc. 1927-1932 3 31 Low-Cost Wheat Train 1928-1930 3 32-34 Fergus County Farm Management Program 1927-1939 4 1 Tractors, use of 1926-1934 4 2 Tillage Machinery and Methods 1924-1932 4 3 Stubble burner, fire drags, etc. 1927-1934 4 4 Grain Harvesting Machinery and Methods 1926-1929 4 5-8 Trucks, Trailers, etc. 1927-1931 4 9 Big Team Material and Correspondence 1926-1933 4 10 Wayne L. Dinsmore, Horse Association of America 1926-1931 4 11-12 Farm Accounts and Records 1925-1929 4 13 Big Team Accounts See also CA F 32 (2:36) Extension Service, Alvord 1926-1928 4 14 Tractor Accounts 1928 4 15 Horse versus tractor operations 1928-1930 4 16 Irrigation (General) 1926-1932 4 17 I. D. O'Donnell Correspondence 1929-1932 4 18 Dr. Elwood Mead 1927-1933 4 19 Economic Irrigation Conference 1927 4 20 Lethbridge Northern Irrigation Project 4 21 Flax (General) 1925-1932 4 22-23 Flax Development Committee 1925-1931 4 24-25 Flax Demonstration 1927 Spring 4 26 Valier Land and Water Company 1927-1930 4 27 Cattle and Sheep ranch and range studies 1926-1929 July 4 28 Cattle and sheep ranch and range studies 1929 July-1930 June 4 29 Cattle and sheep ranch and range studies 1930-1932 5 1 Range carrying capacity 5 2 Feeder livestock 5 3 U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry, V. V. Parr 5 4 Fletcher, Robert S., "Livestock History and Range Cattle Study" 5 5 Low-Cost Hog Raising 5 6 Marketing Research and extension activities 1925-1929 5 7 Marketing research and extension activities 1930-1932 5 8 Farmer's Week 1930-1931 5 9 Taxation See also CA F 19 (B17) Staff correspondence - R. R. Renne 1927-1930 5 10 Taxation Credit Study 1926-1929 5 11 Weather Research 1925-1932 5 12-14 Hail Insurance 1927-1932 5 15 Special Crops (miscellaneous) 1932 5 16 Alfalfa, Hay, Sweet Clover 1926-1931 5 17 Beans 1927-1932 5 18 Corn 1927-1931 5 19 Sugar Beets 1926-1932 5 20 Farm Relief Files (Original Series CD) 5 1925-1933

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.

 Miscellaneous correspondence re: Agricultural and General economic conditions and problems 1926-1933 5 21-22 Garet Garrett 5 23 Agricultural conditions, V. V. Parr 1930-1933 5 24 Land Grant College Association report on the agricultural situation 5 25 Land Grant College Economic Committee 1932-1933 5 26 Legislation, State 1929-1933 5 27 Legislation, State 5 28 Miscellaneous Legislation, Federal 1927-1932 5 29 McNarey Haugen Bill 5 30 Marketing Problems 1925-1929 5 31-32 Freight rates 5 33 Tariff 5 34 Federal farm board 5 35-36 Montana State Marketing Agency, proposed 6 1 Agricultural credit 6 2 Federal Land Bank 6 3 Drought relief 1926-1929 6 4 Drought relief 1930 6 5 Drought relief 1931 January-June 6 6 Drought relief 1931 July-August 6 7 Drought relief 1931 September-December 6 8 Drought relief 1932 January-February 6 9 Drought relief 1932 March-April 6 10 Drought relief 1932 May-1933 May 6 11 Regional Agricultural Planning-Christgau Bill 6 12 Agricultural Land Planning paper (American Farm Bureau Federation) 6 13 University of Chicago Conferences on Economic Policy for American Agriculture 6 14-17 Second Conference on Economic Policy for American Agriculture 6 18 Land utilization 6 19-21 Land bills 6 22 Land utilization materials 7 1-2 "Land Utilization " radio talk 1931-1932 7 3 Land planning paper ("National Conference on Land Utilization") 7 4 Decentralization of industry 1931-1933 7 5 Population - Rural Life 1931-1932 7 6 Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program 1930-1932 February 7 7 Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program 1932 March 7 8 Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program 1932 April 7 9 Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program 1932 May-July 7 10 Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program 1932 August-September 7 11 Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program 1932 October 7 12 Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program 1932 November 7 13 Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program 1932 December 7 14 Domestic Allotment correspondence and emerging Roosevelt farm program 1933 7 15 Topeka Farm speech - Wilson's memoranda and notes 7 16-17 Secretary of Agriculture 7 18 Routine Requests for information on Domestic Allotment Plan 7 19 Allotment bills 7 20 Domestic Allotment "Materials" 7 21-23 Domestic Allotment "Materials" 8 1-3 Farm Relief Plans, alternatives to Domestic Allotment 8 4-8 Farm Program and agricultural conditions, Canadian and British correspondence 1930-1931 8 9 Farm Program and agricultural conditions, Canadian and British correspondence 1932 8 10 Bushrod Allin 1931-1932 8 11 E. J. Bell, Federal Farm Board 1930-1931 8 12 A. H. Benton, North Dakota Agricultural College 1932 8 13 J. D. Black 1928-1933 8 14 R. B. Bowden, Northwest Country Elevator Association, Minneapolis 1932-1932 8 15 I. M. Brandjord, Montana State Board of Land Commissioners 1930-1932 8 16 John Brandt, Land O'Lakes Creameries, Inc. 1931-1932 8 17 Tom D. Campbell 1932 8 18 Victor Christgau, U.S. House of Representatives 1928-1933 8 19 Louis Clarke, Kloke Investment Co., Omaha, Nebraska 1931-1932 8 20 Lester Cole, "Montana Farmer" 1930-1933 8 21 C. B. Coleman, New Windsor, Illinois 1931 8 22 Chester C. Davis 1925-1933 8 23-24 S. J. Davis, Food Research Institute, Stanford University 1931-1933 8 25 Eric Englund, U.S. Department of Agriculture 1930-1933 8 26-27 Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, U.S.D.A. 1931-1933 8 28 L. J. Fletcher 1919-1933 8 29 Paul P. Gourach, New York City 1932 8 30 W. E. Grimes, Kansas State Agricultural College 1930-1932 8 31 W. B. Grobe, Imperial Elevator Company, Minneapolis 1930-1933 8 32 Clifford R. Hope, U.S. House of Representatives 1932-1933 9 1 J. L. Humphrey 1930-1933 9 2 J. B. Hutson 1930-1933 9 3 Sherman E. Johnson, South Dakota State College 1930-1932 9 4 Alex Legge 1931-1932 9 5 W. A. Lloyd, U.S.D.A. 1930-1933 9 6 Russell Lord, "Country Home," Crowell Publishing Co. 1930-1933 9 7 Robert D. Lusk, "The Evening Huronite," Huron, South Dakota 1932-1933 9 8 Ben C. McCabe, International Elevator Company 1929-1930 9 9 W. R. McCarthy, Capital Elevator Company and Duluth Board of Trade 1930-1933 9 10 Raymond Moley 1932 9 11 Minneapolis Tribune: James S. Millery and F. E. Murphy 1931-1932 9 12 Montana State Farm Bureau, W. S. McCormick and Frank Jeffers 1929-1932 9 13 Montana State Farm Bureau, W. L. Stockton 1927-1933 9 14-15 Henry Morgenthau 1932-1933 9 16 National Chamber of Commerce 1929-1930 9 17 National Chamber of Commerce, Agricultural Service Department 1929-1933 9 18-19 National Chamber of Commerce, J. S. Crutchfield 1932-1933 9 20 National Chamber of Commerce, H. I. Harriman 1931-1933 9 21 C. Reinold Noyes 1933 9 22 George and Burton Peek 1932 9 23 Walter B. Pitken 1932 9 24 Hickman, Price, N. Y. and Texas 1929-1932 9 25 R. R. Rogers, Prudential Life Insurance Co., Newark, N.J. 1929-1933 9 26 W. R. Ronald, Evening Republican, Mitchell, S.D. Ap. 1932 August, 1932 Sepember-1933 April 9 27-29 Beardsley Ruml, Spillman Fund of New York 1932 9 30 Ramsay Spillman 1933 9 31 A. H. Stafford, Montana State Department of Agriculture 1930-1932 9 32 George A. Starring 1932 9 33 H. C. Taylor 1926-1932 9 34 M. W. Thatcher 1932 9 35 H. R. Trolley, U.S.D.A. 1930-1933 9 36 Rex Tugwell 1932-1933 9 37 H. A. Wallace 1930-1933 9 38 Senator T. J. Walsh 1932-1933 9 39 C. C. Webber, Deere, Webber Co. 1932-1933 9 40 Senator Burton Wheeler 1928-1933 9 41 John Wilson, Lewistown, Montana 1929-1933 9 42 J. W. Wilson, Topeka, Kansas 1932-1933 9 43 M. S. Winder, American Farm Bureau 1931-1932 9 44 Miscellaneous Wilson Files (Original Series CE) 6 1926-1933

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.

 Correspondence A to H 1926-1932 10 1 Correspondence J to R 1926-1932 10 2 Correspondence S to Z 1926-1932 10 3 American Country Life Association 1931-1933 10 4 American Farm Economic Association 1925-1932 10 5 Chamber of Commerce Conference on the Development of the Pacific Northwest 1928 10 6 Farmers Union 1928 10 7 Grange 1931 10 8 Greater Montana Association, Montana Association, Montanans Incorporated, Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries 1932 10 9 Greater North Dakota Association 1929 10 10 Montana Seed Growers Association 1928-1929 10 11 Joint Committee on Relation of Social and Economic Factors in Rural Progress 1926-1927 10 12 Western Farm Economic Association 1927-1933 10 13 Miscellaneous Correspondence with reference to talks, addresses, articles, etc. 1926-1932 10 14-15 Inquiries into the possibilities of agricultural work 1927-1931 10 16 Foreign visitors 1926-1932 10 17 Russian relations 1928-1929 June 10 18 Russian relations 1929 July-December 10 19 Russian relations 1930 10 20 Russian relations 1931-1933 10 21 Russian relations, reports, etc. 10 22 M. L. Wilson miscellaneous 10 23 M. L. Wilson, miscellaneous talks 10 24-25 E. A. Starch Administration Files 2 1912-1941

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.

 General Departmental Correspondence (Original Series CF) 1

This series deals with mostly internal matters and correspondence from the Agricultural Economics Department. Some are individuals, while others concern groups or organizations.

 Miscellaneous Departmental correspondence 1935-1938 10 26 M. L. Wilson 1933-1935 10 27 F. B. Linfield 1933-1936 11 1 President Alfred Atkinson 1933-1935 11 2 J. C. Taylor 1933-1936 11 3 Budgets 1931-1939 11 4 Statements 1932-1936 11 5 Expenditures, Station and Extension 1935-1938 11 6 Directories 1934-1936 11 7 Farm accounting 1919 11 8 Agricultural survey of the Gallatin Valley 1912 11 9 Farm management survey in the Billings sugar beet region 1915 11 10 Cost of growing wheat on non-irrigated land in Montana 1915 11 11 Economic study of the farm tractor in Montana 1917 11 12 Farm organization studies in the Gallatin Valley 1919 11 13 Farm practice in growing sugar beets in the Billings region of Montana 1916 11 14 Cost accounting 11 15 Cost accounting investigation on Montana farms 1922 11 16 Farm organization studies in the Plains area of Montana 1929 11 17 An economic study of corn production and utilization 1924 11 18 An economic study of dairy farming in Montana 1923 11 19 Studies of successful farms in Montana 1924 11 20 Farm reorganization studies 1924 11 21 An economic study of the small combine 1926 11 22 An economic study of flax production 11 23 An economic study of sugar beet farms 1925 11 24 Wheat marketing in Montana 1925 11 25 A study of range livestock industry 1927 11 26 An economic survey of the production & marketing of farm products in the trade area of Billings 1927 11 27 History - cattle industry in eastern Montana 1923 11 28 Study of farm organizations in Montana 1929 11 29 Combine harvesting in Montana 11 30 Organization & operation methods of farmers' elevators (Purnell) 1923 11 31 Crop & livestock combinations - Valier & Sun River irrigation projects (Purnell) 1929 11 32 Crops & livestock combination for Milk River irrigation project (Purnell) 1927 11 33 Economic advantages of dairying (Purnell) 1927 11 34 Supply & Market for Montana apples 1927 11 35 Crop & livestock combination - western Montana 1927 11 36 Economics of flax production (Purnell) 1927 11 37 Organization management practices. Successful type farms 1927 11 38 Organization - successful dry farm - Southeast Montana 1928 11 39 Food reserves for livestock - Montana 1927 11 40 Tests of farm organization - Montana 1927 11 41 Two-tractor farm project 1927 11 42 A study of the economic causes for the wide fluctuations in range sheep population in Montana 1925 11 43 Management problems of farmers' elevators in Montana 1931 11 44 An historical analysis of Montana farm prices for major agricultural products 1931 11 45 Economic study of livestock feeding in relation to the low priced wheat in Montana 1927 11 46 An economic study of the range cattle industry in Montana 1929 11 47 Farm taxation in Gallatin Valley 1923 11 48 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 49 Relation between Montana farm tax & public finance 1932 11 50 An economic analysis of Montana cereal production & marketing in relation to production adjustments & land use programs 1933 11 51 Comparative tax burdens, tax delinquency, tax sales & land values in Montana 1933 11 52-53 A study of the economics of irrigated feed production in the organization of livestock ranches in the state 1934 1934 11 54 Comparative cost of county government 1933 11 55 Reorganization tax structure & social service pattern accompanying Montana's land use & rural re-habilitation programs 1936-1937 11 56 A range economic study in Madison & Beaverhead counties in Montana 1935 11 57 Analysis of local public finance aspects of federal land purchase projects in Montana 1936 11 58 Terminated sponsors' contributions 11 59 Federal Emergency Relief Administration 11 60 County agricultural economics and farm management projects 11 61 Miscellaneous 11 62-63 Farm corporations 1929-1941 11 64-65 Agricultural Adjustment Administration (Original Series CG) 2 1933-1935

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.

 Allotment correspondence 1933 July-August 11 66 Allotment correspondence 1933 September-October 11 67 Allotment correspondence 1933 November-December 11 68 Allotment correspondence 1934 January-February 11 69 Allotment correspondence 1934 March-April 11 70 Allotment correspondence 1934 May-1935 November 11 71 County circulars, etc. 11 72 Daniels County - Correspondence, Directives, Circulars, Reports, etc. 12 1 Valley County 12 2 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Letters and Circulars 12 3 State directives, circulars, etc. 12 4 Memoranda and Allotment material 12 5-6 Wheat Adjustment Referendum 1935 12 7 Tabulated wheat yields and acreage by county 1928, 1935 12 8 State Grain Board correspondence 1935 September-1936 January 12 9 Land Use Planning (Original Series CH) 3 1933-1935

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.

 Settlement (colonization, homestead inquiries, etc.) 1933-1934 12 10 Land utilization and land use planning (general) 1934-1935 12 11 Regional planning 1934-1937 12 12 Standardization of materials, procedures, methodology, etc. 1934-1936 12 13 State planning 1934-1935 12 14 Louis A. Campbell, Planning Consultant, Montanans Incorporated and State Planning Board 1934-1935 12 15 State maps, statistics, etc. 1933-1935 12 16 Type-of-farm projects 1934-1935 12 17 District planning 1934-1935 12 18 County planning 1934-1935 12 19 Rehabilitation of eroded areas 1934-1935 12 20 Water resource development 1934-1935 12 21 Sub-Marginal Lands (Original Series CJ) 4 1933-1935

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.

 Sub-marginal land purchase program and projects 12 22 Memoranda to regional directors and project managers 1934-1935 12 23 Political appointments 1935 12 24 Land values 1933-1934 12 25 Land appraisal survey - prepared for Federal Land Bank 1933 12 26 Farm Credit Administration file 1933-1934 12 27 Appraiser's School 1934 12 28 Grazing control and range organizational studies 1934-1935 12 29 S. E. Johnson, Regional Director, Land Policy Division, AAA 1934 12 30 S. E. Johnson, Regional Director, Land Policy Division, AAA 1935 12 31 Petitions and inquiries with regard to certain areas being included in the re-purchase program 1934-1935 12 32 Sub-marginal land repurchase program - Inquiries from individuals wishing to sell land 1934 January-October 12 33-34 Sub-marginal land repurchase program - Inquiries from individuals wishing to sell land 1934 November-1936 February 13 1- 5 Lists of purchased land 1939 13 6 W. H. Jones, Project Manager, Miles City 1934-1936 13 7 H. L. Lantz, Project Manager, Milk River 1934-1936 13 8 E. A. Sandberg, Project Manager, Musselshell Central Montana Project 1935 13 9 Recreational and wild life conservation areas 1934-1935 13 10 Robert E. Clarkson, Montana Relief Commission 1934-1937 13 11 Rural rehabilitation and farm relief (including early resettlement and subsistence homesteads) 1933-1935 13 12 Resettlement 1935 13 13 Agricultural Statistics (Original Series CK) 5 1933-1936 Drought survey and proposed relief program 1937 13 14 Cattle and sheep purchases 1934-1935 13 15 Agricultural credit 1933-1935 13 16 Debt adjustment file 1934-1935 13 17 Livestock credit studies 1934-1935 13 18 Mechanization, tractor sales, etc. 1933-1934 13 19 Agricultural census 1934-1936 13 20 Analysis of Census Data on Farms 1920, 1925, 1930 13 21 Farm Accounts 1934-1936 13 22 Rural Life project 1934-1936 13 23 National Emergency Council data 1933, 1935 13 24-25 R.R. Renne Administration Files 3 1934-1943

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

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

This subseries deals with mostly internal matters and correspondence from the Agricultural Economics Department. Some are individuals, while others concern groups or organizations.

 Annual reports 1934-1943 13 26 Budget 1935-1943 13 27 Work fund expenditures 1928-1939 13 28 Statements 1937-1942 13 29 Departmental miscellany 1939-1942 13 30 Dean Clyde McKee 1938-1943 13 31 A. L. Strand 1938-1942 13 32 J. C. Taylor 1938-1942 13 33 F. B. Linfield 1935-1938 13 34 Correspondence re: vacancies, etc. 1936-1943 13 35 John Bower 1940-1943 13 36 C. H. Craig 1939-1943 13 37 Phil S. Eckert 1930-1943 13 38 Stephen Enke 1940-1941 13 39 Harold G. Halcrow 1938-1943 13 40 Nicholas Helburn 1940-1943 13 41 Harold F. Holland 1939-1943 14 1 Roy E. Huffman 1938-1943 14 2 Carl F. Kraenzel 1937-1945 14 3 H. H. Lord 1939-1943 14 4 O. A. Parsons 1938-1943 14 5 Hans H. Plambeck 1941-1943 14 6 P. L. Slagsvold 1938-1940 14 7 Latyton Thompson 1940-1943 14 8 Teaching 1937-1943 14 9 Fellowships, scholarships, etc. - graduate students 1935-1942 14 10 Short courses 1936-1941 14 11 Student letters, to and about 1936-1940 14 12 Student letters, to and about 1940-1943 14 13 O. H. Brownlee 1938-1943 14 14 B. A. E. Memoranda 1940 14 15 Land grant college - B.A.E. Committee 1939-1940 14 16 Work Projects Administration 1937-1942 14 17-18 W. P. A. Sponsors' contributions 14 19 Research projects - miscellaneous correspondence 14 20 Historical records project 1939 14 21 Dr. Kate E. M. Mandelburg 1939-1941 14 22 Miscellaneous files (Original Series CM) 2 1936-1943

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.

 Miscellaneous correspondence 1936-1943 14 23 T. W. Schultz 1936-1943 14 24 M. L. Wilson 1936-1943 14 25 George S. Wherwein 1936-1942 14 26 R. C. Line 1938-1942 14 27 American Farm Economics Association 1939-1940 14 28 Journal of Farm Economics 1938-1943 14 29 Western Farm Economics Association 1936-1941 14 30 Montana Education Association 1936-1939 14 31 Building fund campaign 1940 14 32 Athletics 1938-1940 14 33 North Dakota School for Agricultural Workers 1939 14 34 Gallatin County consumers project 1934-1935 14 35 School district no. 7 1937 14 36 Adult education, forums, etc. 1936-1943 14 37 Agricultural and Economic Conditions (Original Series CN) 3 1930s-1940s

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.

 General agricultural and economic conditions 14 38 Planning (general) 14 39 Land resources and land use planning (general) 15 1 Cooperative land use planning programs 15 2 AAA county study 15 3 Special agricultural conservation study - Pondera (conservation) and Meagher (range) programs 15 4 County land use planning 15 5 War and post-war problems (WPA resource survey - Montana trade status) 15 6 War and post-war problems (articles and conference proceedings) 15 7 National Resources Committee 1939 April-1942 November 15 8-9 Pacific Northwest regional planning commission 15 10 Northwest regional council 15 11 Bibliography and compilation of research in Montana 15 12 Research in Montana 15 13 Columbia Basin - Bonneville power 15 14 Great Plains program, proposed, and miscellaneous Great Plains material 15 15 Northern Great Plains Agricultural Advisory Council, Research Committee 15 16 Mss. - "Wanted: a Culture for the Great Plains Region" 15 17 Public Finance, Taxation and Land (Original Series CP) 4 1930s-1940s

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.

 Government, local 15 18 Governmental units 15 19 Montana Institute of Government 15 20 Manuscript: "Montana county expenditures" 15 21 County public finance studies - Daniels, Sheridan, Roosevelt, Prairie, Musselshell 15 22 Montana Taxpayers Association (Fred Bennion) 16 1 Montana Taxpayers Association, University Study 16 2 School problems, finance, consolidation, etc. 16 3 Taxation 16 4 Taxation - corporate license tax 16 5 Taxation - income tax 16 6 Manuscript: "Income taxation in Montana" 16 7 Taxation - real estate and ownership 16 8-9 Farm tenure 16 10 Public lands 16 11 Federal land purchase 16 12 Indian lands 16 13 Crow Indian land 16 14 State lands 16 15 School lands (M.E.A. Committee) 16 16 Manuscript: "State land management in Montana" 16 17 County lands (tax deed lands, county land leasing, etc.) 16 18 County assessment systems 16 19 Land appraisal 16 20 Farm finance studies (farm credit loans, mortgages, land transfers, tax delinquency) 16 21 Special Project (Original Series CQ) 5 1930s-1940s

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.

 Agricultural credit 16 22 Manuscript: "Credit Costs" by J. J. Livers 16 23 Banks and banking 16 24 Production credit associations 16 25 Soil surveys 16 26 Manuscript: "Montana Soil and Moisture Conservation Practice" 16 27 Type of farming studies 16 28 Farm management, farm accounts and outlook work 16 29 Manuscript: "Farm and Ranch Business Analysis" by R. R. Renne 16 30 Mechanization 16 31 Manuscript: "Production costs on mechanized irrigated farms in Montana" 16 32 Water resources and irrigation 16 33 Manuscript: "Crop selection in irrigated areas in Montana" 16 34 Beans: production and marketing 16 35 Sugar beets 16 36 Potato marketing 16 37 Dairying and dairy products 16 38 Milk Control Board 1939-1941 16 39 Milk Control Board 1942-1943 16 40 Honey Control Board 16 41 Manuscript: "Trends in Montana's poultry production" 16 42 Range livestock and grazing land studies 16 43 Buffalo Creek Grazing District 16 44 Livestock Marketing 16 45 Wool and wool cooperative marketing (wool pools) 17 1 Livestock and lamb fattening project 17 2 WPA grazing history manuscript 17 3 Argentine beef problems (D. Bell correspondence) 17 4 Rural sociology research (health, relief, welfare, population) 17 5 Community approval appraisal (CWA-FERA-WPA-PWA) 17 6 Cost of living survey 17 7 Northern Great Plains migration project 17 8 FSA resettlement studies 17 9 Teton county submarginal farm project 17 10 Butte economic survey 17 11 Gasoline tax and highway support 17 12 Marketing, cooperative 17 13 4-H club study 17 14 Mapping activities (WPA) 17 15 Miscellaneous statistical and trade status data 17 16 Northwest Montana economic data 17 17 Weather 17 18 Renne miscellany 17 19 Land economics textbook 17 20 "Montana Citizen" 17 21 Robert B. Tootell Administration Files 4 1943-1945

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

 Reports and departmental routine (general) 17 22 General economic conditions and post-war planning (including post-war employment correspondence) 17 23-24 Production goals material 17 25 Northern Great Plains and Missouri River development 17 26 Settlement opportunities, Veterans and others 1943-1945 17 27-29 Farm financing and agricultural credit 17 30 Production costs, prices, and income 17 31 Land transfers, land values, and land tenure studies (land market correspondence) 17 32 Leasing agreements 17 33 State lands 17 34 "State land management in Montana" - mimeographed report 17 35 Miscellaneous cattle and sheep ranching and grazing land correspondence 18 1 Farm Managers' Association 18 2 Kiwanis agricultural committees 18 3 Cooperative marketing and other marketing problems 18 4 Irrigation 18 5 Mechanization 18 6 Sugar beets 18 7 Fellowships and scholarships 18 8 M. E. A. joint correspondence on post-war problems 18 9 Miscellaneous correspondence 18 10 Robert S. Eckert Administration Files 5 1945-1949

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

 Correspondence, 1945-1949 1945-1949 18 11 Reports, 1945-1949 1945-1949 18 12 Individual Agricultural Economics Faculty Member Files 6 1925-1943

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.

 E. J. Bell (Original Series DBE) 1 1925-1930 Co-operation (S1) 18 13 Grain and grain marketing (S2) 18 14 List of grain companies operating in Montana (S3) 1928 18 15 Project 19 - wheat marketing in Montana (S4) 18 16 Markets for Montana wheat (S5) 18 17 Pennsylvania correspondence (S6) 18 18 County agents' wheat projects and meetings (S7) 18 19 Protein content and premiums on wheat (S8) 18 20 Bulletin - Marketing high protein wheat (S9) 18 21 Protein meeting (S10) 18 22 Milling in bond and Canadian wheat prices (S11) 18 23 Combining of grain (S12) 18 24 Moisture testers (S13) 18 25 Grain storage (S14) 18 26 Cooperative marketing of wheat (Federal Farm Board) (S15) 18 27 Elevators (S16) 18 28 Farmers' elevator short course (S17) 18 29 Alfalfa seed marketing (S18) 18 30 Beans (S19) 18 31 Sugar beets (S20) 18 32 Livestock marketing (S21) 18 33 Wool marketing (S22) 18 34 Poultry and poultry products (S23) 18 35 Billings beet region study (S24) 18 36 Miscellany (S25) 18 37 Employment status, etc. (S26) 18 38 M. L. Wilson (S27) 18 39 G. H. Craig (Original Series DCR) 2 1940-1943 Teaching (S28) 18 40 Research activities, general correspondence and data (S29) 18 41 Livestock industry correspondence (ranch organization study) (S30) 18 42 Mss. - "Economic Importance of Range Livestock in Montana" (S31) 18 43 Land valuation, zoning (S32) 18 44 Tenancy studies and correspondence (S33) 18 45 Collective tenure study and grazing correspondence (S34) 18 46 Collective tenure study - Wyoming field notes (S35) 18 47 Meagher County range experiment program (S36) 18 48 Northern great plains (general) (S37) 18 49 "Wartime land policy for the Northern Great Plains" (S38) 18 50 "Northern Great Plains in a World of Change" (S39) 18 51 Canadian correspondence, reports, etc. (collective tenure, irrigation, marketing, etc.) (S40) 18 52 Miscellaneous correspondence (S41) 18 53 Renne's land economics textbook (S42) 19 1 Health plans (S43) 19 2 Social security legislation (S44) 19 3 Farmers' movements (S45) 19 4 S. E. Johnson (Original Series DJO) 3 1926-1929 M. L. Wilson (S46) 19 5 Farm accounts (S47) 19 6 Reclamation (S48) 19 7 Bitterroot survey (S49) 19 8 Flathead irrigation project survey (S50) 19 9 Apple Marketing (S51) 19 10 Cherry industry (S52) 19 11 Dairy industry (S53) 19 12 Wheat production, marketing, storage, prices, protein content, etc. (S54) 19 13 Livestock shipping associations (S55) 19 14 Miscellany (S56) 19 15 Director, F. B. Linfield (S57) 19 16 O. A. Parsons (Original Series DPA) 4 1939-1943 Miscellaneous correspondence (S58) 19 17 R. R. Renne (S59) 19 18 Farm management (S60) 19 19 Agricultural planning (S61) 19 20 Farmers' records (S62) 19 21 Farm prices (S63) 19 22 Type of farming studies (general) (S64) 19 23 Mss. & miscellaneous statistical tables "Type of farming in Montana" Part II (S65) 19 24 Type of farming in Montana, Area, III (S66) 19 25 Type of farming in Montana, Area, V (S67) 19 26 Type of farming in Montana, Area, VI (S68) 19 27 Type of farming in Montana, Area, VII (S69) 19 28 Teton County study (S70) 19 29 Irrigation (S71) 19 30 Farm mechanization (S72) 19 31 Farm implement sales and machinery rationing (S73) 19 32 Farm labor (S74) 19 33 Doctoral thesis: "Factors affecting agriculture in the Great Plains area of Montana" (S75) 19 34 Master's thesis: "Analysis of economic factors affecting the soil erosion control practices of the individual farmer" (S76) 19 35 Northern Plains study - "Northern Great Plains in a world of change" (S77) 19 36 Mss. - "Report on economic study of the Skokin extension of the Sun River Electric Cooperative" (S78) 19 37 R. R. Renne (Original Series DRE) 5 1930-1935 Miscellaneous departmental activities, departmental relationships, etc. (S79) 19 38 Teaching (S80) 19 39 Correspondence with and about former students (S81) 19 40 M. S. C. athletic association (S82) 19 41 General and miscellaneous agricultural and economic conditions and policies (S83) 19 42 Wheat adjustment program (S84) 19 43 Taxation (S85) 19 44 Montana taxpayers' association (S86) 19 45 Projects connected with farm taxation, tax delinquency, farm mortgages, land values, etc. (S87) 19 46 Tax project, B. W. Allin correspondence (S88) 19 47 Local government (S89) 20 1 School finance and school district consolidation (S90) 20 2 Submarginal land purchase program, county owned lands (S91) 20 3 Range lands (S92) 20 4 Resettlement (S93) 20 5 Cooperative rural sociology research (S94) 20 6 Population project (S95) 20 7 Tariff (S96) 20 8 Theses: Tariff monograph (S97) 20 9 Theses text (S98) 20 10 Dairying (S99) 20 11 Oleomargarine (S100) 20 12 Irrigation and reclamation conference, (S101) 1934 September 27 20 13 Beans (S102) 20 14 Flax and linseed meal (S103) 20 15 Farm mechanization (S104) 20 16 Gasoline prices (S105) 20 17 Miscellaneous projects - rural relief study, health conditions, county tabulations, etc. (S106) 20 18 Miscellaneous correspondence (S107) 20 19 T. W. Schultz (S108) 20 20 Assiniboine Indian land case (S109) 20 21 Western Loan and Building Co. (S110) 20 22 Boston Montana Mines Corporation (S111) 20 23 H. H. Stippler correspondence - German translation (S112) 20 24 H. Saunderson (Original Series DSA) 6 1931-1938 Miscellaneous correspondence, A to L (S113) 20 25 Miscellaneous correspondence, M to Z (S114) 20 26 President A. W. Atkinson (S115) 20 27 Director F. B. Linfield (S116) 20 28 Director Clyde McKee (S117) 20 29 M. L. Wilson (S118) 20 30 E. A. Starch (S119) 20 31 R. R. Renne (S120) 20 32 P. L. Slagsvold (S121) 20 33 R. B. Haight (S122) 20 34 John Nye (S123) 20 35 Arthur Roth (S124) 20 36 Daniel A. Fulton (S125) 20 37 Montana Board of Reclamation Commissioners (S126) 20 38 Montana Grazing Commission: N. W. Monte (S127) 20 39 Grazing coordinator, Montana Relief Commission (Bruce Orcutt, Frank H. Rose) (S128) 20 40 Montana Stockgrowers' Association (S129) 1930-1938 20 41 Montana Wool Growers' Association (S130) 1929-1935 20 42 National Wool Growers' Association; F. R. Marshall, Secretary (S131) 20 43 Northern Pacific Railway (S132) 20 44 U. S. Agricultural Adjustment Administration (S133) 20 45 A.A.A. Brookings Institution project (S134) 20 46 A.A.A. Production Planning study (S135) 20 47 A.A.A. land policy section (S136) 20 48 A.A.A. Land Policy Section, S. E. Johnson (S137) 20 49 U. S. Agricultural Economics Bureau, Federal-State statistics (S138) 21 1 U. S. Agricultural Economics Bureau, Farm Management and Costs Division, C. L. Holmes (S139) 21 2 U. S. Agricultural Economics Bureau, Farm Management and Costs Division, S. E. Johnson (S140) 21 3 U.S. Farm Credit Administration, farm credit survey (S141) 21 4 U.S. Forest Service (S142) 21 5 U.S. National Resources Board (S143) 21 6 U.S. National Resources Board, T. S. Thorfeinson (S144) 1934-1935 21 7 U.S. National Resources Board, J. S. Foster, Colorado land planning (S145) 21 8 U.S. National Resources Board, Tom E. Doughty, land planning consultant (S146) 21 9 U. S. Resettlement Administration (S147) 21 10 U. S. Resettlement Administration, J. C. Foster (S148) 21 11 U. S. Resettlement Administration, Rex E. Willard (S149) 21 12 U. S. Soil Conservation Service (S150) 21 13 Farm account book correspondence (S151) 21 14 Project outlines (S152) 21 15 Typewritten material, articles, etc. (S153) 21 16 Articles, Roth (S154) 21 17 Planning materials, regional adjustment and conservation programs (S155) 21 18 Water resources planning report (S156) 21 19 Land use material (S157) 21 20 Articles and talks on land use planning (S158) 21 21 Land ownership notes (S159) 21 22 Land valuation articles (S160) 21 23 Type of farming study (S161) 21 24 Grazing land use (S162) 21 25 Range studies (S163) 21 26 Plan of adjustment for grazing areas in land utilization projects (S164) 21 27 Agricultural Conservation Program planning - range program (S165) 21 28 Soil conservation material (S166) 21 29 Range management survey data and progress report on range livestock for agricultural conservation study (S167) 1936 21 30 Study of cost, investment and income factors in range beef study (S168) 1929 21 31 Sheep data (S169) 21 32 Livestock data (S170) 21 33 P. L. Slagsvold (Original Series DSL) 7 1929-1936 Miscellaneous correspondence (S171) 21 34 Departmental correspondence (S172) 21 35 Conser, C. C. (S173) 21 36 Wilson, M. L. (S174) 21 37 Extension (S175) 21 38 Agricultural policy and farm relief legislation (S176) 21 39 Farm indebtedness (S177) 21 40 Drought and drought relief (S178) 21 41 Resettlement and rural rehabilitation (S179) 21 42 Water resources and irrigation correspondence (S180) Kinsey irrigation project (S181) 22 1 Milk River Bulletin and project (S182) 22 2 Sun River irrigation project (S183) 22 3 Valier irrigation project (S184) 22 4 Agricultural Adjustments Administration (S185) 22 5 Soil conservation (S186) 22 6 Soil conservation - cooperative project (S187) 22 7 Cooperative project mailing lists (S188) 22 8 Marketing research (S189) 22 9 Grain marketing and storage (S190) 22 10 Livestock marketing (S191) 22 11 Lister manuscript: "Survey of General and Specialized Areas of Production and Feeding of Cattle and Sheep in Montana" (S192) 22 12 Cooperatives (S193) 22 13 Cooperative elevators (S194) 22 14 Freight rates (S195) 22 15 Farm income and farm products price studies (S196) 22 16 Farm accounts (S197) 22 17 Farm leases (S198) 22 18 Teaching (S199) 22 19 Ronald Press "Market Organization" text book (S200) 22 20 Merchandising thesis (S201) 22 21 E. A. Starch (Original Series DST) 8 1930-1932 Agricultural policy and legislation (S202) 22 22 Montana general agricultural conditions (S203) 22 23 Drought and drought relief (S204) 22 24 Agricultural credit (S205) 22 25 Bank study (S206) 22 26-27 Mechanization and large-scale farming, costs of wheat growing, etc. (S207) 22 28 Misc. inquiries re. Farming methods, use of machinery, control of soil blowing (S208) 22 29 Farm Leases (S209) 22 30 Freight rates (S210) 22 31 Miscellaneous correspondence (S211) 22 32 Manuscript: "Wheat Farm Organization as Influenced by Land Productivity and Price Fluctuations" (S212) 22 33 Individual Extension Service Faculty Member Files 7 1943-1955

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.

 Extension Director, Cooley, F.S. (Original Series EA) 1 1915-1917 County agents (T1) 22 34 Defense Council Crop Survey (T2) 22 35 Feed shortage (T3) 22 36 U. S. Sheep and Wool demonstration car (T4) 22 37 Horse breeder school, Glendive, Montana (T5) 22 38 Dairying (T6) 22 39 Grange (T7) 22 40 Miscellaneous (T8) 22 41 County Agent Leader, Wilson, M. L. (Original Series EB) 2 1913-1919 Agricultural conditions (T9) 1918-1919 22 42 County agents' work (T10) 22 43 Cooley, F. S. (T11) 22 44 Grain marketing districts and state marketing department (T12) 22 45 Farmers' organizations (T13) 22 46 Farmers' organizations - Montana Farm Bureau (T14) 22 47 Montana history - county agent leaders (T15) 22 48 Miscellany (T16) 22 49 Correspondence when at University of Wisconsin relating to land problems including settlement and irrigation (T17) 22 50 Farm Management Demonstrator, Chase, F. J. (Original Series FFA) 3 1916-1918 Reports (T18) 1916-1917 22 51 Correspondence (T19) 1917-1918 22 52 Farm Management Demonstrator, Copeland, A. J. (Original Series FFB) 4 1918-1921 Correspondence, A to Z (T20) 1918-1921 22 53 Extension Economist, Wilson, M. L. (Original Series FFC) 5 1922-1924 Miscellaneous and general correspondence (T21) 22 54 Olsen, Niles A. (Division of Agricultural Credit, U.S.D.A.) (T22) 22 55 Davis, C. C. (Montana Department of Agriculture (T23) 22 56 Reports of progress (T24) 23 1 Farm management (plans of work) (T25) 23 2 County agents (T26) 23 3 Successful farmers survey (T27) 23 4 Farm accounting (T28) 23 5 Farm practices (T29) 23 6 Livestock (T30) 23 7 Grazing (T31) 23 8 Dairying (T32) 23 9 Poultry (T33) 23 10 Potatoes (T34) 23 11 Corn (T35) 23 12 Flax survey (T36) 23 13 Wheat (T37) 23 14 Wheat harvesting methods and machinery (T38) 23 15 Combines (T39) 23 16 Big Teams (T40,T41) 23 17-19 Dry farming methods and demonstration trains (T42) 23 20 Triangle requests (Bulletin No. 66) (T43) 23 21 Hallman, E. C. (Acadia Valley, Alberta) Big Teams (T44) 23 22 Marketing (T45) 23 23 Montana Wheat Growers, Inc. (T46) 23 24 Taxes (T47) 23 25 Farm relief activities 1923 (T48) 1923 23 26 Farm relief activities Jan-Mar 1924 (T49) 1924 23 27 Farm relief activities April-Dec 1924 (T50) 1924 23 28 Farm relief materials, President's Agricultural Conference on Northwest (T51,T52) 23 29-30 President's Agricultural Conference - Agriculture and Finance, Feb. 4, 1924 (T53) 1924 February 4 23 31 Land settlement (T54) 23 32 Land settlement conference, Helena (T55) 1924 March 24 1 Advertising, state lands, etc. (T56) 24 2 Agricultural program for Montana (T57) 24 3 Wilson miscellany (personal) (T58) 24 4 U.S. Department of Agriculture - Taylor, Tolley, etc.-reference to Fairway Farms (T59) 24 5 Reclamation service - - Dr. Elwood Mead (T60) 24 6 American Farm Bureau Federation (T61) 24 7 Weather data (T62) 24 8 Wilson - conferences, talks, etc. (article: "The Evolution of Montana Agriculture in its Early Period") (T63) 24 9 Montana history (T64) 24 10 Alberta survey board (T65) 24 11 Farm Management Demonstrator, Gilman, V. D. (Original Series FFD) 6 1924-1927 Farm Management program (T66) 24 12 Reports (T67) 24 13 Taylor, J.C. (T68) 24 14 Wilson, M.L. (T69) 24 15 Farm management surveys, conferences, farm records, account books, etc. (T70) 24 16 1927 Agricultural Economics conferences (T71) 1927 24 17 Irrigation, Milk River (minutes of Irrigation Economics Conference) (T72) 1927 November 16 24 18 Irrigated land, Great Falls District (minutes of Irrigation Economics Conference) (T73) 1927 November 17-18 24 19 Big Team hitch, etc. (T74) 24 20 Grain marketing, testing, etc. (T75) 24 21 Poultry statistics (T76) 24 22 Farm leases (T77) 24 23 Harvesting methods (T78) 24 24 Veterans' trainee program (T79) 24 25 Farm Management Demonstrator, Alvord, Ben F. (Original Series FFE) 7 1927-1928 General folder (T80) 24 26 Farm Management Demonstrator, Gilman, V. D. (Original Series FFF) 8 1929-1931 Miscellaneous correspondence (T81) 24 27 Farm management program (T82) 24 28 Reports (T83) 24 29 Farm accounts (T84) 24 30 County agricultural economics program (land utilization) (T85) 24 31 Types of farming studies (T86) 24 32 Cattle and sheep range and ranch surveys (T87) 24 33 Irrigated farms survey (Orchard Homes) (T88) 24 34 Dry land farm surveys (T89) 24 35 Railroad area surveys (T90) 24 36 Farm census and area classification (T91) 24 37 Correspondence re. Montana agricultural conditions and farm operations (T92) 24 38 Rentals and tenancy (T93) 24 39 Sugar beets and beans (T94) 24 40 Wilson, M. L. (T95) 24 41 Agricultural credit (T96) 24 42 Drought relief and surveys general (T97) 24 43 Drought relief by counties: Big Horn to Liberty (T98) 24 44 Drought relief by counties: McCone to Yellowstone (T99) 24 45 Farm Management Demonstrator, Goth, Austin (Original Series FFJ) 9 1934-1935 Annual report (T100) 24 46 Correspondence (T101,T102) 1934, 1935 24 47-48 Correspondence: Fraser, W. O. (T103) 24 49 General corn-hog material (T104) 24 50 Administrative costs of county associations (T105) 24 51 Corn-hog form letters (T106) 1934-1935 24 52 Circular letters on corn-hog work (T107) 24 53 Corn-hog production adjustment (T108) 24 54 Corn-hog referendum (T109) 1934 24 55 Corn-hog referendum (T110) 1934 24 56 Estimates from corn-hog associations (T111) 1935 24 57 Salt Lake corn-hog conference (T112) 24 58 Farm Management Demonstrator, Howard, Clyde (Original Series FFK) 10 1936-1937 Correspondence re. Requests for information (T113) 25 1 Farm records (T114) 25 2 Farm leases (T115) 25 3 Cooperative elevator study (T116) 25 4 Extension Economist, Carpenter, Paul (Original Series FGD) 11 1929-1934 Bureau of Agricultural Economics (T117, T118) 1929-1933 25 5-6 Taylor, J. C. (T119) 1929-1934 25 7 Railroad agents (T120) 1929 25 8 A to Z files (T121) 25 9 Wheat (T122) 1929-1933 25 10 Wheat adjustment file (T123) 25 11 Flax (T124) 1930-1932 25 12 Potatoes (T125) 1930-1931 25 13 Beans (T126) 25 14 Beef - horses - mules (T127) 1930-1931 25 15 Dairy products (T128) 1929-1934 25 16 Sheep-wool (T129) 1929-1933 25 17 Farm management (T130) 1932 25 18 Farm credit (T131) 1932 25 19 Credit letter file (T132) 1934 25 20 Farm products trade (T133) 25 21 Corn-hog adjustment file (T134) 1934 25 22 Grasshopper program (T135) 1934 25 23 Transportation, rail (T136) 1931 25 24 Transportation, water (T137) 1929 25 25 Outlook file (T138) 1929 25 26 Outlook comments (T139) 25 27 Outlook study (T140) 25 28 Northern Pacific train - low-cost farming special (T141) 25 29 Special drought survey (T142) 1931 25 30 Hay-feed supplies (T143) 25 31 Reports (T144) 25 32 Extension Economist, Lamphere, Willard (Original Series FGL) 12 1939-1940 Specialists' monthly report (T145) 25 33 Annual reports (T146-149) 1935-1938 25 34-37 Plan of work for Land Utilization Projects (T150) 1934-1936 25 38 Plan of work for Agricultural Outlook Project (T151) 1936-1937 25 39 Plan of work (T152-154) 1937-1940 25 40-42 Miscellaneous correspondence (T155) 25 43 Agricultural Conservation Program (T156-157) 1935-1939 25 44-45 Farrell, George E. (T158) 25 46 Mercer, Ralph D. (T159) 25 47 Technical Committee (Soil Conservation program) (T160) 25 48 Recommendations County Committee, Agricultural Conservation Program (T161) 1937 25 49 Program planning - educational work, etc. (T162) 25 50 Discussion and adjustment (T163) 25 51 Crop data (T164) 25 52 Indices of productivity (T165) 25 53 Beans (T166) 25 54 Wheat (T167) 25 55 Outlook correspondence (T168) 25 56 Permanent background project for agricultural outlook (T169) 25 57 Soil and land (T170) 25 58 Water conservation (T171) 25 59 Range conservation program (T172) 25 60 Livestock (T173) 25 61 Wool (T174) 25 62 Drought conditions (T175) 26 1 Emergency cattle and sheep purchase program (T176) 1934 26 2 County agents (T177) 26 3 Range practices - survey Eastern Montana (T178) 1936 26 4 County correspondence - Beaverhead (T179) 26 5 County correspondence - Big Horn (T180) 26 6 County correspondence - Blaine (T181) 26 7 County correspondence - Broadwater (T182) 26 8 County correspondence - Carbon (T183) 26 9 County correspondence - Cascade (T184) 26 10 County correspondence - Chouteau (T185) 26 11 County correspondence - Custer-Powder River (T186) 26 12 County correspondence - Daniels (T187) 26 13 County correspondence - Dawson (T188) 26 14 County correspondence - Fallon-Carter (T189) 26 15 County correspondence - Fergus (T190) 26 16 County correspondence - Flathead (T191) 26 17 County correspondence - Gallatin (T192) 26 18 County correspondence - Garfield-Petroleum (T193) 26 19 County correspondence - Glacier (T194) 26 20 County correspondence - Hill (T195) 26 21 County correspondence - Judith Basin (T196) 26 22 County correspondence - Lake (T197) 26 23 County correspondence - Broadwater-Lewis and Clark (T198) 26 24 County correspondence - Madison-Jefferson (T199) 26 25 County correspondence - Meagher (T200) 26 26 County correspondence - Missoula (T201) 26 27 County correspondence - Golden Valley-Musselshell (T202) 26 28 County correspondence - Park (T203) 26 29 County correspondence - Phillips (T204) 26 30 County correspondence - Pondera (T205) 26 31 County correspondence - Prairie (T206) 26 32 County correspondence - Richland (T207) 26 33 County correspondence - Roosevelt (T208) 26 34 County correspondence - Rosebud (T209) 26 35 County correspondence - Sanders (T210) 26 36 County correspondence - Sheridan (T211) 26 37 County correspondence - Stillwater (T212) 26 38 County correspondence - Sweet Grass (T213) 26 39 County correspondence - Teton (T214) 26 40 County correspondence - Toole (T215) 26 41 County correspondence - Valley (T216) 26 42 County correspondence - Wheatland (T217) 26 43 County correspondence - Wibaux (T218) 26 44 County correspondence - Yellowstone (T219) 26 45 Milk River project (T220) 26 46 Sun River project (T221) 26 47 County work folder - Blaine (T222) 26 48 County work folder - Cascade (T223) 26 49 County work folder - Chouteau (T224) 26 50 County work folder - Dawson (T225) 26 51 County work folder - Fallon-Carter (T226) 26 52 County work folder - Fergus (T227) 26 53 County work folder - Glacier (T228) 26 54 County work folder - Granite (T229) 26 55 County work folder - Hill (T230) 26 56 County work folder - Judith Basin (T231) 26 57 County work folder - Liberty (T232) 26 58 County work folder - McCone (T233) 26 59 County work folder - Phillips (T234) 26 60 County work folder - Pondera (T235) 26 61 County work folder - Prairie (T236) 26 62 County work folder - Richland (T237) 26 63 County work folder - Teton (T238) 26 64 County work folder - Toole (T239) 26 65 County work folder - Valley (T240) 26 66 County work folder - Wibaux (T241) 26 67 Extension Land Economist, Tootell, R. E. (Original Series FLA) 13 1932-1934 Reports (T242) 26 68 Land utilization (general) - land classification and land values (T243) 26 69 Land Utilization Round Table Conference (T244) 1932 26 70 Land utilization tours (T245) 26 71 County projects (T246) 26 72 Tax title lands and land trading (T247) 26 73 Grazing districts (T248) 26 74 Land settlement - settlement on irrigated lands, back-to-land movement (T249) 26 75 Land settlement inquiries (T250) 26 76 Irrigation, resource inventory (T251) 27 1 Irrigation financing (T252) 27 2 Irrigation committee, Montanans Incorporated (T253) 27 3 Federal P. W. A. program of water conservation and use (T254) 27 4 Irrigation - miscellaneous correspondence (T255) 27 5 Drought and drought relief (T256) 27 6 Wheat cost of production (T257) 27 7 Domestic allotment plan and administration (T258) 27 8 Miscellaneous correspondence (T259) 27 9 Extension Land Economist, Bolster, H. G. (Original Series FLE) 14 1935-1941 Land use planning (general and miscellaneous) (T260) 27 10 Reports on cooperative land use planning program (T261) 1940 27 11 Monthly reports of activities (T262) 27 12 Monthly news exchange (T263) 27 13 Taylor, J. C., Director (T264) 27 14 State Land Use Advisory Committee notices (T265) 27 15 Land use defense program (unified state program to meet the impacts of war) (T266) 27 16 Production goals (Production Adjustment Committee) (T267) 27 17 Sugar beet correspondence (T268) 27 18 Public Works Reserve (T269) 27 19 Agricultural conservation problems (T270) 27 20 County planning project - General statements, reports, etc. (T271) 27 21 County planning project - general correspondence (T272) 27 22 County planning project - correspondence with field agents (T273) 27 23 County planning project - circular letters to county agents (T274) 27 24 Plan of work (T275-276) 1939-1941 27 25-26 Individual counties - Beaverhead (T277) 27 27 Individual counties - Big Horn (T278) 27 28 Individual counties - Blaine (T279) 27 29 Individual counties - Carbon (T280) 27 30 Individual counties - Cascade (T281) 27 31 Individual counties - Chouteau (T282) 27 32 Individual counties - Custer-Powder (T283) 27 33 Individual counties - Daniels (T284) 27 34 Individual counties - Dawson (T285) 27 35 Individual counties - Deer Lodge (T286) 27 36 Individual counties - Fallon-Carter (T287) 27 37 Individual counties - Fergus (T288) 27 38 Individual counties - Flathead (T289) 27 39 Individual counties - Gallatin (T290) 27 40 Individual counties - Garfield - Petrolium (T291) 27 41 Individual counties - Glacier (T292) 27 42 Individual counties - Hill (T293) 27 43 Individual counties - Judith Basin (T294) 27 44 Individual counties - Lake (T295) 27 45 Individual counties - Broadwater-Lewis and Clark (T296) 27 46 Individual counties - Madison-Jefferson (T297) 27 47 Individual counties - McCone (T298) 27 48 Individual counties - Meagher (T299) 27 49 Individual counties - Missoula (T300) 27 50 Individual counties - Golden Valley-Musselshell (T301) 27 51 Individual counties - Park (T302) 27 52 Individual counties - Phillips (T303) 27 53 Individual counties - Pondera (T304) 27 54 Individual counties - Prairie (T305) 27 55 Individual counties - Ravalli (T306) 27 56 Individual counties - Richland (T307) 27 57 Individual counties - Roosevelt (T308) 27 58 Individual counties - Rosebud (T309) 27 59 Individual counties - Sanders (T310) 27 60 Individual counties - Sheridan (T311) 27 61 Individual counties - Stillwater (T312) 28 1 Individual counties - Sweet Grass (T313) 28 2 Individual counties - Teton (T314) 28 3 Individual counties - Toole (T315) 28 4 Individual counties - Treasure (T316) 28 5 Individual counties - Valley (T317) 28 6 Individual counties - Wheatland (T318) 28 7 Individual counties - Wibaux (T319) 28 8 Individual counties - Yellowstone (T320) 28 9 Soil conservation program (T321) 28 10 Water facilities program (T322) 28 11 Grazing districts and lease values of range land (T323) 28 12 Range conditions and control (T324) 28 13 Farm tenancy (T325) 28 14 Indian lands (T326) 28 15 Rehabilitation and resettlement (T327) 28 16 Agricultural credit (T328) 28 17 Miscellaneous correspondence (T329) 28 18 Marketing Specialist, Beers, W. L. (Original Series FMB) 15 1916-1919 Miscellaneous correspondence (T330) 28 19 Cooley, F. S. - correspondence and reports (T331) 28 20 U.S.D.A. Bureau of Markets - Charles D. Brand (T332) 28 21 U.S.D.A. Bureau of Markets - R. C. Skinner, R. H. Ellsworth (T333-335) 1917-1919 28 22-24 U.S.D.A. Bureau of Markets - Memoranda (T336) 28 25 Marketing work (T337) 28 26 County circulars, exchange lists, etc. (T338) 28 27 Daily Bulletin (T339) 28 28 Municipal public markets (T340) 28 29 Cooperative marketing (T341) 28 30 Equity Cooperative Association and Farmers' Union (T342) 28 31 Northwest Grain Dealers' Association (T343) 28 32 Farmers' elevator companies (T344) 28 33 Farm elevator study (T345) 28 34 Threserman's reports (T346) 28 35 Food Preparedness program (T347) 28 36 Grain marketing (T348) 28 37 Dockage for cracked wheat and screenings (T349) 28 38 Binder's twine (T350) 28 39 Livestock marketing (including livestock cooperative shipping associations) (T351) 28 40 Feeder cattle (T352) 28 41 Hogs (T353) 28 42 Horses (T354) 28 43 Meat dealers, list of (T355) 28 44 Wool (T356) 28 45 Sugar-beet by-products feeding (T357) 28 46 Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - miscellany (T358) 28 47 Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - questionnaires (T359) 28 48 Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - correspondence (T360) 28 49 Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Dec 1917-Aug 1918 (T361,362) 28 50-51 Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Sept 1918-1919 (T363-367) 29 1-5 Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Lots bd. 5, 10, Cd 6, 11, 12 (T368) 29 6 Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Lots Ce 2, 4, 5 (T369) 29 7 Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Lot Ce 6 (T370) 29 8 Feed and hay shortage and emergency feed supply program - Lots 8, 9, 11, 12, Df (T371) 29 9 Transportation - motor truck, Opheim, car shortage, embargos, grazing in transit rates, other special rates (T372) 29 10 Drought area reduced rates - miscellany (directors, circulars, etc.) (T373) 29 11 Correspondence (drought area reduced rates) (T374) 1918 February-September 29 12 Drought area reduced rates - correspondence (T375) 1918 October-December 29 13 Drought area reduced rates - correspondence (T376) 1919 January-October 29 14 Drought area reduced rates - Rowell v Beers, Rowell v Beers and Woods (T377) 29 15 Drought area reduced rates - Joe Styhlrieter case (T378) 29 16 Drought area reduced rates - Northern Hay and Food Company (P.J. Malkerson) case (T379) 29 17 Drought area reduced rates - R. M. Froemke, Aloe, Montana, case (T380) 29 18 Drought area reduced rates - Quinn-Shepardson case (T381) 29 19 Farm loans (T382) 29 20 Seed (grain, corn, alfalfa, etc.) Miscellany (T383) 29 21 Seed questionnaire - answers to questionnaires on seed wheat, seed rye, seed corn, etc. (T384) 29 22 Seed correspondence (T385) 1917-1919 30 1 Seed correspondence (T386) 1918 February 1-15 30 2 Seed correspondence (T387) 1918 February 16-28 30 3 Seed correspondence (T388) 1918 March 1-15 30 4 Seed correspondence (T389) 1918 March 16-31 30 5 Seed correspondence (T390) 1918 April 30 6 Seed correspondence (T391) 1918 May-August 30 7 Seed correspondence (T392) 1918 September-1919 January 30 8 Form requests for grain (T393) 30 9 Gopher extermination (T394) 30 10 Shelter Belt planting (T395) 30 11 Fruit and vegetable marketing - apples, potatoes, peas, beans, sweet corn (T396) 30 12 Potatoes (T397) 30 13 Beans (T398) 30 14 Apples (T399) 30 15 Fruit and vegetable products (dehydrating plans and canneries) (T400) 30 16 Poultry (T401) 30 17 Honey and bees (T402) 30 18 Dairying (T403) 30 19 Cooperative telephone companies (T404) 30 20 Farm labor problems (T405) 30 21 Non-Partisan League (T406) 30 22 Fish, sale of (T407) 30 23 Marketing Specialist, Conner, C. C. (Original Series FMC) 16 1930-1933 Marketing program (T408) 30 24 Wilson, M. L. (T409) 30 25 Miscellaneous cooperative correspondence (T410) 30 26 Gas and oil associations (T411) 30 27 Grain marketing (general (T412) 30 28 Grain storage and freight rates on grain (T413) 30 29 High protein wheat (T414) 30 30 Canadian wheat and milling in bond (T415) 30 31 Miscellaneous elevator correspondence (T416) 30 32 Elevator study and meetings (T417) 30 33 Financial statements and articles of incorporation of Montana elevators (T418) 30 34 Farm holiday, dollar wheat plan (T419) 30 35 Various wheat marketing organizations (T420) 30 36 Farmers' National Grain Corporation (T421) 30 37 Grain Stabilization Corporation (T422) 30 38 North Pacific Grain Growers (T423) 30 39 Northwest Grain Association (T424) 30 40 Cooperative Northwest Farmers Grain Corporation (T425) 30 41 Farmers Union versus Northwest Grain Association (T426) 31 1 Montana Farmers and Independent Grain Dealers Association (T427) 31 2 Fruit and vegetable truck marketing and standardization (T428) 31 3 Fruit and vegetables - marketing, canneries (T429) 31 4 Potato marketing (T430) 31 5 Dairy products - marketing and cooperatives (T431) 31 6 Poultry and poultry products (T432) 31 7 Turkey and turkey marketing (T433) 31 8 Woolgrowers and wool marketing (T434) 31 9 Livestock marketing and finance (Intermountain Livestock Marketing Assoc., Federal Lamb Emergency Project) (T435) 31 10 Agricultural credit (general) (T436) 31 11 Drought relief (T437) 31 12 Hay and feed situation (T438) 31 13 Seed situation (T439) 31 14 Seed marketing (T440) 31 15 Land utilization (T441) 31 16 Farm relief plans and allotment plan (T442) 31 17 Women's and curb markets (T443) 31 18 Miscellany (T444) 31 19 Material donated by Miss Letta Conser, Washington, D. C. (T445) 31 20 Statistician, Patton, S. (Original Series FST) 17 1925-1927 Miscellaneous requests and other miscellaneous correspondence (T446) 31 21 Wilson, M. L. (T447) 31 22 Circular letters (T448) 31 23 Agricultural programs (T449) 31 24 Montana agricultural outlook (T450) 31 25 Dairying and poultry data (T451) 31 26 Flax (T452) 31 27 Land (T453) 31 28 Livestock information requests (T454) 31 29 Weather data (T455) 31 30 Wheat prices, hedging, protein content and other data (T456) 31 31 State B. A. E. Representative, Haight, R. B. (Original Series GA) 18 1937-1942 Disposition of records (U1) 31 32 Miscellaneous correspondence, A-F (U2) 1937-1939 31 33 Miscellaneous correspondence, G-M (U3) 1937-1939 31 34 Miscellaneous correspondence, P (U4) 1937-1939 31 35 Miscellaneous correspondence, R-T (U5) 1937-1939 31 36 Miscellaneous correspondence, W-Z (U6) 1937-1939 31 37 Minutes of Land Grant College, B. A. E. committee (U7) 31 38 State Agricultural Planning Committee - minutes (U8) 32 1 State Land Use Advisory Committee - minutes (U9) 32 2 Mount Weather Agreement (U10) 32 3 Budgets (U11) 1939-1940 32 4 Project funds (U12) 32 5 Directories (U13) 32 6 Miscellaneous resettlement administration reports (U14) 32 7 Conference reports (U15) 32 8 Conference reports - Black Hills (U16) 1938 August 25-30 32 9 WPA research project (U17) 32 10 Highway data (U18) 32 11 State programs (U19) 32 12 Activity statements (U20) 32 13 Miscellaneous land use planning reports (U21) 32 14 Old N. R. B. reports (U22) 32 15 Development and analysis of materials, area land use planning (U23) 32 16 Cooperative relationships with other agencies (U24) 32 17 Great Plans Committee report (U25) 32 18 Northern Great Plains tour (U26) 1939 August 20-25 32 19 Educational reports (U27) 32 20 Radio talks - "The Great Plains: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" (U28) 32 21 Press releases - news articles (U29) 32 22 Methods used in assembling and coordinating data (U30) 32 23 Land use planning program (U31) 32 24 Monthly progress report, Montana (U32,U33) 1939 32 25-26 Progress reports, BAE, Montana (U34) 1940 32 27 Migration study (U35) 32 28 County data folder, Beaverhead (U36) 32 29 County data folder, Big Horn (U37) 32 30 County data folder, Blaine (U38) 32 31 County data folder, Broadwater (U39) 32 32 County data folder, Carbon (U40) 32 33 County data folder, Carter (U41) 32 34 County data folder, Cascade (U42) 32 35 County data folder, Chouteau (U43) 32 36 County data folder, Custer (U44) 32 37 County data folder, Daniels (U45) 32 38 County data folder, Dawson (U46) 32 39 County data folder, Deer Lodge (U47) 32 40 County data folder, Fallon (U48) 32 41 County data folder, Fergus (U49) 33 1 County data folder, Flathead (U50) 33 2 County data folder, Gallatin (U51) 33 3 County data folder, Garfield (U52) 33 4 County data folder, Glacier (U53) 33 5 County data folder, Golden Valley (U54) 33 6 County data folder, Granite (U55) 33 7 County data folder, Hill (U56) 33 8 County data folder, Jefferson (U57) 33 9 County data folder, Judith Basin (U58) 33 10 County data folder, Lake (U59) 33 11 County data folder, Lewis and Clark (U60) 33 12 County data folder, Liberty (U61) 33 13 County data folder, Lincoln (U62) 33 14 County data folder, McCone (U63) 33 15 County data folder, Madison (U64) 33 16 County data folder, Meagher (U65) 33 17 County data folder, Mineral (U66) 33 18 County data folder, Missoula (U67) 33 19 County data folder, Musselshell (U68) 33 20 County data folder, Park (U69) 33 21 County data folder, Petroleum (U70) 33 22 County data folder, Phillips (U71) 33 23 County data folder, Pondera (U72) 33 24 County data folder, Powder River (U73) 33 25 County data folder, Powell (U74) 33 26 County data folder, Prairie (U75) 33 27 County data folder, Ravalli (U76) 33 28 County data folder, Richland (U77) 33 29 County data folder, Roosevelt (U78) 33 30 County data folder, Rosebud (U79) 33 31 County data folder, Sanders (U80) 33 32 County data folder, Sheridan (U81) 33 33 County data folder, Silver Bow (U82) 33 34 County data folder, Stillwater (U83) 33 35 County data folder, Sweet Grass (U84) 33 36 County data folder, Teton (U85) 33 37 County data folder, Toole (U86) 33 38 County data folder, Treasure (U87) 33 39 County data folder, Valley (U88) 33 40 County data folder, Wheatland (U89) 33 41 County data folder, Wibaux (U90) 33 42 County data folder, Yellowstone (U91) 33 43 Wheat data (U92) 33 44 Wheat allotment data (U93) 33 45 Wheat charts and maps (U94) 34 1 Acres, bushels, yield, operators, tenancy, Montana cash grain access (U95) 34 2 Acreage, yield and production - various crops (U96) 34 3 A. A. A. crop data by county and township - also number of animal units (U97) 34 4 Livestock production (U98) 34 5 Land use (various summaries) (U99) 34 6 Land ownership (U100) 34 7 Land classification - soils, types of farms, grazing land (U101) 34 8 Farm records (U102) 34 9 Mimeographed publications - Experiment Station (U103) 34 10 Number of farms, acres, ownership for selected counties (U104) 34 11 Directional measures (U105) 34 12 Grazing districts (U106) 34 13 Leasing agreements with grazing districts (U107) 34 14 Purchase projects (U108-U109) 34 15-16 Milk River - Northern Area (U110) 34 17 Purchase projects - Phillips County, Malta, Homestead Project (U111) 34 18 Land purchase - Fallon and Custer county (U112) 34 19 Land purchase - Fergus County (U113) 34 20 Proposed land use adjustment projects, 1928-1940 (U114) 34 21 Agricultural credit study - Fergus County (U115) 34 22 Buffalo Creek grazing district (U116) 34 23 R. A. Project Sun River (U117) 34 24 Farm finance (U118) 34 25 Farm - debt adjustment notes (U119) 34 26 Land valuation (U120) 34 27 Tables - crop, feed and drought loans (U121) 34 28 Prices on Montana products (U122) 34 29 Farm income - value of products sold by areas (U123) 34 30 Income summary sheet by areas (U124) 1935 34 31 Public finance (U125) 34 32 Assessment data (U126) 34 33 Agricultural adjustment administration (U127) 34 34 County planning meetings (U128) 34 35 County planning program (U129) 34 36 Type-of-farming study: Neil Johnson (U130) 34 37 Fergus bulletin, land use planning (U131) 34 38 Agricultural planning materials (U132) 34 39 Discussion groups (U133) 34 40 Land use planning meetings (U134) 34 41 Cooperative agreements (U135) 34 42 Rural electrification (U136) 34 43 Water facilities (U137) 34 44 Fairway Farms Corporation Records 8 1924-1943

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.

 Corporation Organization (Original Series SA) 1 Prospective lands and lands offered for purchase (AA1) 35 1 Prospective lands and lands offered for purchase (AA2) 1924 35 2 Prospective lands and lands offered for purchase (AA3) 1925-1927 35 3 Prospective lands - Bilstad properties (AA4) 35 4 Prospective lands - Cashman place (AA5) 35 5 Prospective lands - sheep farm (AA6) 35 6 Prospective tenants (AA7,AA8) 35 7-8 Suggested names for farms (AA9) 35 9 Mike Stolz and Gerald Probach (AA10) 35 10 Applications for work on farms (AA11) 1924-1931 35 11 Buildings (AA12) 35 12 Farms - general materials (AA13) 35 13 Financial Matters and Taxation (Original Series SB & SC) 2 Fairway accounts correspondence (AB1) 35 14 Orders (AB2) 35 15 Financial reports (AB3) 1925-1931 35 16 Financial reports (AB4) 1932-1935 35 17 Summaries (AB5-AB8) 35 18-21 Bills outstanding - all farms (AB9) 35 22 Transfer from voucher register and daily cash book of the Fairway Farm Corporation (AB10-AB11) 35 23-24 Marshall, L.C., Treasurer (AB12) 35 25 Vandenhook, Charles, Treasurer (AB13) 1924-1931 35 26 Vandenhook, Charles, Treasurer (AB14) 1942-1945 35 27 Commercial National Bank (AB15) 35 28 Miscellaneous financial correspondence (AB16) 35 29 Wilson-Starch accounts (AB17) 35 30 Federal income tax (AC1) 35 31 Corporation license tax (AC2) 35 32 Capital stock tax (AC3) 35 33 Fairway Farms' tax statements and assessment lists (AC4) 35 34 Taxes on loaned machinery (AC5) 35 35 Publicity (Original Series SD) 3 Publicity on Fairway (AD1) 35 36 Articles by M. C. Cutting (AD2) 35 37 SerReports on Research and Farming Activities (Original Series SE) 4 Correspondence regarding analysis diesel fuel (AE1) 36 1 Tractor farming experiments (AE2,AE3) 36 2-3 Operations of caterpillar diesel 50 (AE4) 36 4 Low-grade fuel experiments (AE5) 36 5 Analysis of Montana crude oil from Public Service Commission (AE6) 36 6 Gas consumption per tractor hour (AE7) 36 7 Weather data (AE8) 36 8 Moisture determinations (AE9) 36 9 Field operations and yields (AE10) 36 10 Labor report (AE11) 36 11 Extension-Type Activities (Original Series SF) 5

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.

 Brockton Field Day (AF1) 1929 36 12 Older Boys Visitation Day (AF2) 36 13 Spring wheat regional conference (AF3) 1930 36 14 Special Correspondence with Cooperators (Original Series SG) 6 Campbell (T. D.) Farming Corporation - Fairway, leases (AG1) 36 15 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Railroad (AG2) 36 16 Great Northern Railroad (AG3) 36 17 Northern Pacific Railway Company (AG4) 36 18 Organizations, General (Original Series SH) 7

This subseries deals with correspondence and other issues with groups outside the Fairway operation that did not have a directly cooperating role.

 Papers, records, etc. (AH1) 36 19 Parsons notes (AH2) 36 20 Forms (AH3) 36 21 By-laws and articles of Incorporation (AH4) 36 22 Explanation of organization, progress, etc. (AH5) 1924-1928 36 23 Explanation of organization, progress, etc. (AH6) 1929-1934 36 24 Advice on similar projects (AH7,AH8) 1924-1933 36 25-26 Northwest Land and Finance Corp. (AH9) 36 27 Board of Directors (AH10,AH11) 1924-1936 36 28-29 Board of Directors (AH12,AH13) 1936-1944 36 30-31 Miscellaneous Fairway reports and materials (AH14-AH16) 36 32-34 Reorganization proposal (AH17,AH18) 1935 36 35-36 Miscellaneous early correspondence (AH19) 36 37 Correspondence of significance with relation to general agricultural policy (AH20) 36 38 Rockefeller Foundation (Original Series SI) 8 Rockefeller Foundation (General) (AI1) 36 39 Beardsley Ruml, 1923-1928 (AI2) 36 40 Arthur Packard, 1930-1933 (AI3) 36 41 Harold F. Fabian, 1930-1933 (AI4) 36 42 Rockefeller Foundation - Farm Foundation (AI5) 1937-1946 36 43 Board of Directors, Individual Correspondence, etc. (Original Series SJ) 9 C. C. Davis (AJ1) 36 44 Richard T. Ely (AJ2) 36 45 L. C. Gray (AJ3) 36 46 J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Wilson (AJ4) 1925 February 37 1 J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Wilson (AJ5) 1925 March-December 37 2 J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Wilson (AJ6) 1926 37 3 J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Wilson (AJ7) 1927-1929 37 4 J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Wilson (AJ8) 1930 37 5 J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Stippler (AJ9) 37 6 J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Taylor-Ackerman (AJ10) 1941-1943 37 7 J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Starch (AJ11) 1929-1938 37 8 J. L. Humphrey, President - Humphrey-Renne-Parson (AJ12) 1941-1943 37 9 Walter D. Hartman, Fairway attorney (AJ13) 37 10 A. Vaux (AJ14) 37 11 H. C. Taylor and Farm Foundation Correspondence (Original Series SK) 10 Wilson-Renne (AK1) 1942 37 12 Taylor-Wilson (AK2) 1923-1926 37 13 Taylor-Wilson (AK3) 1927 37 14 Taylor-Wilson (AK4) 1928-1941 37 15 Taylor-Renne-Starch (AK5) 1941-1963 37 16 Taylor-Starch (AK6) 37 17 Taylor-Budd (AK7) 37 18 Taylor-Duncan-Ackerman (AK8) 37 19 Ackerman-Renne-Parsons (AK9) 37 20 Strand-Taylor-Renne (AK10) 37 21 Miscellaneous Individual Correspondence (Original Series SL) 11 Chancellor Brannon: Brannon-Wilson (AL1) 37 22 Atkinson-Wilson (AL2) 37 23 Hamilton-Wilson (AL3) 37 24 Linfield-Humphrey (AL4) 37 25 McKee-Renne (AL5) 37 26 V. D. Gilman (AL6) 37 27 E. H. Lott (AL7) 37 28 George Morgan (AL8) 37 29 H. B. Bonebright (AL9) 37 30 Parsons-Renne (AL10) 1941-1943 37 31 A. E. Seamans (AL11) 37 32 Starch-Wilson (AL12) 1927-1928 37 33 Starch-Wilson (AL13) 1929-1933 37 34 Starch-office (AL14) 37 35 Starch-Renne-Parsons (AL15) 37 36 H. H. Stippler (AL16,AL17) 37 37-38 Purchases and Loans (Original Series SM, SN, SO) 12

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).

 General correspondence, A-H (AM1,AM2) 37 39-40 General correspondence, I-Z (AM3,AM4) 37 41-42 Allis Chalmers Tractor Company (AM5) 37 43 American Grain Separator Company (AM6) 37 44 Calkins Manufacturing Company (AM7) 37 45 J. I. Case Company (AM8) 37 46 Caterpillar Tractor Company (AM9-AM11) 38 1-3 Chase Plow Company (AM12) 38 4 Cheney Weeder Company (AM13) 38 5 Connelly Machinery Company (AM14) 38 6 Deere Webber Company (AM15) 38 7 Hall-Perry Machinery Company (AM16) 38 8 Howell Manufacturing Company (AM17) 38 9 International Harvester Company, Billings (AM18) 38 10 International Harvester Company, Bismarck (AM19) 38 11 International Harvester Company, Chicago (AM20,AM21) 38 12-13 International Harvester Company, Helena (AM22) 38 14 International Harvester Company, Minot (AM23,AM24) 38 15-16 International Harvester Company, Williston (AM25) 38 17 La Crosse Plow Company (AM26) 38 18 N. P. Larsen Implement Company (AM27) 38 19 Light Draft Harrow Company (AM28) 38 20 Midland Implement Company (AM29) 38 21 Minneapolis Moline Power Implement Company (AM30) 38 22 Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company (AM31) 38 23 Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company (AM32) 38 24 Oliver Plow Company (AM33) 38 25 Western Harvester Company (AM34) 38 26 Wilberg Plow Attachment Company (AM35) 38 27 Miscellaneous (AN1) 38 28 Continental Oil Company (AN2) 38 29 Farmers Lumber Company (AN3) 38 30 Frazer Oil and Motor Company, Lien Sales Company (AN4) 38 31 Monarch Lumber Company (AN5) 38 32 Westland Oil Company (AN6) 1926-1932 38 33 Westland Oil Company (AN7) 1933-1938 38 34 Westland Oil Company (farm foundation file) (AN8) 38 35 Yale Oil Corporation (AN9) 38 36 Alfalfa seed (AO1) 38 37 Corn (AO2) 38 38 Flax and oats (AO3) 38 39 Garden seeds and trees (AO4) 38 40 Grass seed (AO5) 38 41 Potatoes (AO6) 39 1 Spring rye and sweet clover (AO7) 39 2 Supreme wheat and barley 39 3 Wheat (AO8) 39 4 Karl Reddick (AO10) 39 5 Wheat and Seed Sales and Livestock (Original Series SP and SQ) 13 Alfalfa seed (AP1) 39 6 Seed corn (AP2) 39 7 Wheat sales, general (AP3-AP5) 39 8-10 H. F. Shepardson Co. (AP6) 39 11 Soil conservation and AAA data (AP7) 39 12 Wheat allotment - Lone Warrior (AP8) 1933 39 13 Wheat allotment - Richland (AP9) 1933 39 14 Wheat allotment - Taiyan (AP10) 1933 39 15 Wheat allotment - Wiota (AP11) 1933 39 16 Livestock (general) (AQ1) 39 17 Brands (AQ2) 39 18 Indian Lands (Original Series SR) 14

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.

 Fort Peck farms (Lone Warrior, Taiyan, Wiota) (AR1) 1925-1927 39 19 Fort Peck Indian Agency(AR2) 1926-1932 39 20 Fort Peck Indian Agency (AR3) 39 21 Fort Peck Indian Agency, reclamation service (AR4) 39 22 Leases (AR5) 39 23 Mollie Cleveland Eagleman, Lessor - Lone Warrior Farm (AR6) 39 24 Eagle Feather, Lessor - Taiyan Farm (AR7) 39 25 Thomas Firemoon, Lessor - Taiyan Farm (AR8) 39 26 Iron Horn, Lessor - Taiyan Farm (AR9) 39 27 Stonewall Jackson, Lessor - Taiyan Farm (AR10) 39 28 Thomas Melborn, Lessor - Lone Warrior Farm (AR11) 39 29 H. J. Nichols, Lessor - Wiota Farm (AR12) 39 30 Cloverleaf Farm (Original Series SS-1) 15

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.

 Reports (AS1) 39 31 Miscellaneous charts and prints (AS2) 39 32 Miscellaneous memoranda (AS3) 39 33 Inventories (AS4) 39 34 Miscellaneous statistical and financial data (AS5) 39 35 Crop yields and cropping plans (AS6) 39 36 Farm produce used in the home (AS7,AS8) 1926-1934 39 37-38 Receipts and expenditures (AS9,AS10) 39 39-40 Weather data (AS11) 39 41 Miscellaneous contracts, deeds, etc.(AS12) 39 42 Correspondence (AS13) 1924-1925 39 43 Correspondence (AS14) 1926 40 1 Correspondence (AS15) 1927 40 2 Correspondence (AS16) 1928-1940 40 3 Comanche Farm (Original Series SS-2) 16

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.

 Comanche - notes (AS17) 40 4 Reports (AS18-AS20) 40 5-6 Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc.(AS21) 40 7-8 Miscellaneous contracts, deeds, etc.(AS22) 40 9 Miscellaneous memoranda (AS23) 40 10 Miscellaneous data - statistical, financial (AS24) 40 11 Crop yields and cropping plans (AS25) 40 12 Inventories (AS26) 40 13 Labor reports, daily (AS27) 40 14 Receipts and expenditures (AS28,AS29) 40 15-16 Weather data (AS30) 40 17 General correspondence (AS31) 1924-1925 40 18 General correspondence (AS32) 1925 40 19 General correspondence (AS33) 1926 40 20 General correspondence (AS34) 1927 40 21 General correspondence (AS35) 1928 40 22 General correspondence (AS36) 1929 40 23 General correspondence (AS37) 1930 40 24 General correspondence (AS38) 1931 40 25 General correspondence (AS39) 1932-1937 40 26 Correspondence re Heffelflinger Bond issued, Schug loan (AS40) 1925-1929 40 27 Correspondence re Heffelflinger Bond issued, Schug loan (AS41) 1930-1937 40 28 Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton (Original Series SS-3) 17

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.

 Reports (AS42,AS43) 40 29-30 Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc.(AS44) 41 1 Miscellaneous contracts, deed, leases, etc.(AS45) 41 2 Miscellaneous (AS46) 41 3 Miscellaneous statistical and financial data (AS47,AS48) 41 4-5 Crop yields and cropping plans (AS49) 41 6 Inventories (AS50) 41 7 Loaned machinery (AS51) 41 8 Receipts and expenditures (AS52) 41 9 Proprietors or Superintendents daily reports (AS53) 41 10 Regular daily worker reports (AS54) 41 11 Daily tractor reports (AS55) 41 12 Weather data (AS56) 41 13 General correspondence (AS57) 1925-1926 41 14 General correspondence (AS58) 1927 41 15 General correspondence (AS59) 1928 41 16 General correspondence (AS60) 1929 41 17 General correspondence (AS61) 1930 41 18 General correspondence (AS62) 1931-1932 41 19 General correspondence (AS63) 1933-1938 41 20 General correspondence (AS64) 1940-1942 41 21 Liquidation (AS65) 1943-1944 41 22 Ray W. Pilling (AS66) 1926-1940 41 23 Richland Farm (Original Series SS-4) 18

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.

 Reports (AS67,AS68) 41 24-25 Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc.(AS69) 41 26 Miscellaneous contracts, deeds, etc.(AS70) 41 27 Miscellaneous memoranda (AS71) 41 28 Miscellaneous statistical and financial data (AS72) 41 29 Crop yields and cropping plants (AS73) 41 30 Inventories (AS74) 41 31 Receipts and expenditures (AS75) 41 32 Weather data (AS76) 41 33 Correspondence (AS77) 1924-1926 41 34 Correspondence (AS78) 1927-1928 41 35 Correspondence (AS79) 1929-1930 41 36 Correspondence (AS80) 1931 41 37 Correspondence (AS81) 1932-1940 41 38 Rosebud Farm (Original Series SS-5) 19

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.

 Reports (AS82-AS84) 41 39-41 Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc.(AS85) 41 42 Miscellaneous contracts, deeds, etc.(AS86) 41 43 Miscellaneous memoranda (AS87) 42 1 Miscellaneous statistical and financial data (AS88) 42 2 Crop yields and cropping plans (AS89) 42 3 Inventories (AS90) 42 4 Receipts and expenditures (AS91) 42 5 Weather data (AS92) 42 6 Correspondence (AS93) 1924-1925 42 7 Correspondence (AS94) 1925 42 8 Correspondence (AS95) 1926 42 9 Correspondence (AS96) 1927 42 10 Correspondence (AS97) 1928-1936 42 11 Taiyan Farm (Original Series SS-6) 20

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.

 Reports (AS98, AS99) 42 12-13 Miscellaneous charts (AS100) 42 14 Miscellaneous contracts, leases, etc.(AS101) 42 15 Miscellaneous memoranda (AS102) 42 16 Miscellaneous statistical data, financial statements, etc.(AS103) 42 17 Crop yields and cropping plans (AS104) 42 18 Farm produce used in the home (AS105) 42 19 Inventory (AS106) 42 20 Statement of receipts and expenditures (AS107) 42 21 Proprietors and superintendent's daily reports (AS108) 42 22 Regular workers' daily reports (AS109) 42 23 Daily tractor reports (AS110) 42 24 Weather data (AS111) 42 25 Assembled correspondence (AS112) 1925-1926 42 26 Assembled correspondence (AS113) 1926 42 27 Assembled correspondence (AS114) 1927-1928 42 28 Assembled correspondence (AS115) 1928-1933 42 29 Assembled correspondence (AS116) 1933-1938 42 30 Liquidation (AS117) 1939-1944 42 31 Wiota Farm (Original Series SS-7) 21

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.

 Reports (AS118-120) 42 32-34 Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc. (AS121) 42 35 Miscellaneous contracts, deeds, etc. (AS122) 42 36 Miscellaneous statistical and financial data (AS123) 42 37 Receipts and expenditures (AS124) 42 38 Crop yields and cropping plans (AS125) 42 39 Inventories (AS126) 42 40 Weather data (AS127) 42 41 General correspondence (AS128) 1924 42 42 General correspondence (AS129) 1925 43 1 General correspondence (AS130) 1926 43 2 General correspondence (AS131) 1927-1929 43 3 General correspondence (AS132) 1930-1935 43 4 General correspondence (AS133) 1936-1943 43 5 Woanlo Farm (Original Series SS-8) 22

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.

 Reports (AS134-AS136) 43 6-8 Miscellaneous charts, prints, etc. (AS137) 43 9 Miscellaneous contracts, agreements, etc. (AS138) 43 10 Miscellaneous memoranda (AS139) 43 11 Miscellaneous financial data, financial statements, etc. (AS140) 43 12 Crop yields and cropping plans (AS141) 43 13 Inventories (AS142) 43 14 Receipts, expenditures (AS143) 43 15 Weather reports (AS144) 43 16 F.E. McSpadden, tenant (AS145) 1924-1926 43 17 F.E. McSpadden, tenant (AS146) 1927-1943 43 18 Yanktonai (Cartee-Bureau) Farm (Original Series SS-90) 23

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.

 Reports (AS147,AS148) 43 19-20 Miscellaneous charts, pictures, etc.(AS149) 43 21 Miscellaneous contracts, agreements, etc.(AS150) 43 22 Miscellaneous statistical data, finance reports, etc.(AS151) 43 23 Crop yields and cropping plans (AS152) 43 24 Inventories (AS153) 43 25 Receipts and expenditures (AS154) 43 26 Weather data (AS155) 43 27 Correspondence (AS156) 1924-1925 43 28 Correspondence (AS157) 1926-1927 43 29 Correspondence (AS158) 1928-1929 43 30 Correspondence (AS159) 1930-1933 43 31 Farm Account Books and Misc. Financial Statistics (Original Series ST, SV, R) 24

This subseries contains many of the original financial records and ledgers generated by the various Fairway Farms.

 Voucher register and daily cash book (AT5) 1937-1945 43 32 General records as to leases, insurance policies, notes payable (AT6) 43 33 Lone Warrior ledger (AT7) 1932-1933 43 34 Lone Warrior journal (AT8) 43 35 Lone Warrior, labor and expense - wheat (AT9) 1932-1933 43 36 Lone Warrior, financial statement (AT10) 1933-1937 43 37 Account summary (AT1,AT2) 1924-1943 44 1-2 Bills payable (AT3) 1925-1928 44 3 Ledger (AT4) 1929, 1945 44 4 Journal sheets (AU1) 1924-1928 44 5 Deposit and payments sheet from the daily cash book (AU2) 1932-1933 44 6 Seven Twedt, Hingham and Rudyard: Labor 1926 45 1 Seven Twedt, Hingham and Rudyard: Labor, expenses, receipts 1927 45 2 Seven Twedt, Hingham and Rudyard: Labor 1928 45 3 Seven Twedt, Hingham and Rudyard: Expenses, inventories 1930 45 4 Seven Twedt, Hingham and Rudyard: Receipts, expenses, produce used 1929 45 5 F. S. Davies, Comanche: Labor 1925-1926 45 6 F. S. Davies, Comanche: Labor 1927 45 7 F. S. Davies, Comanche: Labor 1928 45 8 F. S. Davies, Comanche: Labor, receipts and expenses, inventory 1929 45 9 F. S. Davies, Comanche: Labor, receipts and expenses, inventory 1930 45 10 Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton: Labor 1928-1929 45 11 Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton: Labor 1929-1932 45 12 Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton: Tractor records 1929-1933 45 13 Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton: Tractor records 1928-1933 45 14 Lone Warrior Farm, Brockton: Tractor and implement records 1929-1933 45 15-16 Richland Farms and Pete Smith: Richland Farms, inventory 1925 45 17 Richland Farms and Pete Smith: Pete Smith, Sidney 1927-1929 45 18 Vanderschall, Forsyth: Labor, receipts, inventory 1926 45 19 Vanderschall, Forsyth: Labor, inventories 1927 45 20 Vanderschall, Forsyth: Labor, etc. 1928 45 21 Vanderschall, Forsyth: Expenses 1929-1930 45 22 Vanderschall, Forsyth: Labor, expenses 1930 45 23 A. G. Cleveland - Taiyan, Bank Farm, Ft. Peck: Records 1928-1929 45 24 A. G. Cleveland - Taiyan, Bank Farm, Ft. Peck: Records 1926 45 25 A. G. Cleveland - Taiyan, Bank Farm, Ft. Peck: (Frazer, Mont.) Labor 1927 45 26 B. I. Barnes, Nashua: Labor 1927 45 27 B. I. Barnes, Nashua: Labor 1928 45 28 B. I. Barnes, Nashua: Labor 1929 45 29 B. I. Barnes, Nashua: Labor, etc. 1930 45 30 F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Labor, etc. 1926 45 31 F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Labor, etc. 1927 45 32 F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Labor, etc. 1928 45 33 F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Records 1928 45 34 F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Labor, etc. 1929 45 35 F. E. MacSpadden, Heron (Sanders Co.): Labor, etc. 1930 45 36 W .E. Cartee, Whitetail, MT: Labor, etc. 1928 45 37 Miscellaneous Records 9 1925-1946

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.

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