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Company managed several college farms. Correspondence between Phelps and the company; form field reports; information on improving farm practices sent by the company to their clients; discussion of political situation, Phelps and Claassen, president of Farmers National, May-June 1936.

Primarily crop reports, field supervisors' reports, crop acreage plats. Some correspondence.

Farm records for all college-owned farms from 1947-1969. 18 spiral-bound notebooks. The first 13 notebooks cover the years 1956-1969. Each notebook contains records for one year for all farms and is arranged alphabetically by farm name. Each of the last 5 notebooks contains the records of specific farms, 1947-1969. Farms covered are Benson, Felt, Oelwein, Painter.

Vacuum cleaners; dining hall chairs; laundry machines; Colonial Hospital Supply; Pearlman & co., lighting

Correspondence, government farm assistance programs forms, full description and plat of farm. Real Estate Register, p. 40 (RG-T Ser. 5.2)

Arranged by fund. Incomplete index, ledger pages not numbered. Some finds are recorded in several different places in the ledger. Includes: bank transactions; mortgages; college-owned property; faculty deferred ssalary; Quadrangle deposits and expenses (a large portion of the book); student fees; specific endowment funds; library; administrative expenses and salaries; physical plant expenses; Athletic Dept. expenses.

"Action of trustees with regard to a committee to formulate to put in operation a movement for raising an endowment fund of $250,000."

Reports for 1924, 1925, 1930

Arranged by account. Index: alphabetical by fund. Separate index inserted listing funds arranged by type: stamped with Grinnell College Foundation seal. Both indexes are typewritten. Types of funds are: Annuity funds (arranged by name); Bills Receivable; Bills Payable; campus buildings (arranged by building name), equipment, and furnishings; endowments; various funds (such as Parker fund, class funds, Macy fund, several library funds, Botanical Garden, Gates lectureship fund, Grinnell-in-China fund). Also entries for endowed funds for lectureships and scholarships. Also real estate accounts, including college-owned farms; Cottage (last account on roll).

Arranged in reverse chronological order. Correspondence, primarily with farm manager, Arthur Pitcher, and with banks. Mentions government farm assistance programs; first trial of hybrid corn ("willing to put in ... 7 bu of corn...would like to see this corn tried out alongside seed ...saved for this year", "We have never had any experience with hybred [sic] corn, but are trying it out on half a dozen farms this year for the first time: May 6, 1937, Philps to farm manager); planting trees, Jan 19, 1937; embargo on trucks on farm roads due to mud, April 14, 1936; college's mortgage on the farm; dealing with army worms, June 25, 1932; "If the pheasant season hunting didn't get you down, will you please give us a report on the corn crop..." Nov. 25, 1935; "We have 27 farms under contract for the Corn-Hog Plan..." Phelps to Pitcher, Feb 18, 1935 1 photo Real Estate Register, p. 17 (RG-T Ser. 5.2)

Supreme Court of Iowa briefs and arguments.