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Cerro Gordo County IA farm

Records for this farm are preserved in toto because they provide a description of various aspects of the farm economy in the 1930s. Correspondence of Lonnie and Hoarace Trees, brothers who farmed the land, L. V. Phelps, banks (much with Bankers Life), vendors, real estate agents contain considerable detail including: Livestock diseases, sales, prices, inventories of holdings Crops: first trials of hybrid corn (1937), sowing, harvesting, storage, marketing, disease control Building and equipment purchases and repairs Personal tragedies: death of Trees' son from typhoid August-Sept. 1937, auto accident April 1937 Finances: Trees' loans, prices for buying and selling livestock, seed and crops, expenditures. College's loans, mortage with Bankers Life, taxes, etc.

Cervantes Society

Card from Caroline Nadeau Membership Directory 1999 Bulletin II (2005-2007) Newsletter September 2008 Letter from Caroline Nadeau, 7/30/08 Newsletter May 2008 Newsletter January 2008 Highlighted bibliography entry Letter from President of Cervantes Society, 2/29/00 Newsletter October 1991 Newsletter November 1989 Memo to members and executive council, 1988 Ballot for Executive Council, 1987 Letter, 5/20/87 Newsletter May 1985 Newlsetter December 1981

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