ROBERT S. KERR COLLECTION
DEPARTMENTAL SERIES
Box and Folder Inventory
Box 1

Box 1: Agriculture: Commodity Credit Corporation (1947, 1953) -- Agriculture: Drought (1953).

F 1: Agriculture: Commodity Credit Corporation (1947, 1949).

Acreage allotments and marketing quotas for various crops; alfalfa seed purchase program; cotton storage; grain storage; dehydrated alfalfa price support; corn price supports; shelled corn storage; pork storage; mung bean and Chinese red bean purchase; peanut storage; wheat storage; stockpile elevator; loans for grain storage; Frank Carter's contract between CCC and Union Equity Cooperative Exchange of Enid. Correspondents include: Clinton Anderson; Charles Brannan; and Elmer Thomas.

F 2: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (n.d., 1947-1948).

List of cooperatives; pamphlet on REA history and progress; rural telephone service.

F 3: Agriculture: Farm Bureau (1948-1951, 1953).

Oklahoma Farm Bureau News (Nov. 1948); preamble and resolutions of Oklahoma Farm Bureau for 1948 and 1949; reserves of commodities; statement of member of Wagoner County Farm Bureau; international sale of commodities. Correspondents include: Charles Brannan.

F 4: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1948-1949).

Outline of FHA workings; criticism of FHA; constituent requests; report on state FHA activities; pamphlets re: farm loans.

F 5: Agriculture: Farmers Union (1948-1950).

Cooperatives; extension service; resolutions of Woods County Farmers Union and Custer County Local of Oklahoma Farmers Union; union group meeting in Washington, D.C. with Oklahoma congressional delegation; congratulation letters; speaking contest. Correspondents include: Carl Albert.

F 6: Agriculture: General (1948-1949).

Program and policy; cooperatives; National Tax Equality Association; ticks; resolution of Oklahoma House of Representatives re: ticks; horses; agency cooperation; social security coverage for farmers; onions; oil and gas leases; "Sirup Sorghum Varieties" (booklet from Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station at Oklahoma A&M College); customs inspection; Brannan Plan; remount program; legislation re: eggs; August report of Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations; Future Farmers of America. Correspondents include: Clinton Anderson; Charles Brannan; National Grange; Oklahoma Agricultural Cooperative Council.

F 7: Agriculture: Market Reporter For Tulsa Stockyards (1948-1949).

Correspondence. Correspondents include: Tulsa County Farm Bureau.

F 8: Agriculture: Soil Conservation Service (1948-1952).

Acquisition of land; usage of federal land; unlawful usage of government truck; lime and phosphates in LeFlore County; employee transfers; financial obligations for watersheds; Oklahoma Handbook for 1950 of the Agricultural Conservation Program; annual reports by Caney Valley, Creek County, Jackson County, and Grant County; fund usage in Oklahoma County; census of agriculture; statement/essay about soil conservation. Correspondents include: Konawa Soil Conservation District.

F 9: Agriculture: Agricultural Economics, Bureau of (1949).

Cotton acreage allotments for Harmon and Tillman Counties.

F 10: Agriculture: Animal Industry, Bureau of (1949).

Hoof and mouth disease program; bidding on a contract to provide horse and mouth disease serum in Mexico.

F 11: Agriculture: Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP) (1949).

Resume of program.

F 12: Agriculture: Cotton (1949).

Cottonseed program and price supports; Texas Cotton Ginners' Association Bulletin No. 81 (Nov. 1, 1949); editorial from The Cotton Gin and Oil Mill Press (Oct. 29, 1949); "Oklahoma Small Grain Harvest Guide for Custom Combine Owners." Correspondents include: Senator John C. Stennis; New York Cotton Exchange; Stanley Draper of Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.

F 13: Agriculture: Economic Cooperation Administration (1949).

Wheat sales.

F 14: Agriculture: Experiment Stations (1949).

Dry Farming Experiment Station; Woodward Dairy Experiment Station; Red Plains Conservation Experiment Station in Guthrie. Correspondents include: Elmer Thomas.

F 15: Agriculture: Federal Crop Insurance (1949). 

Cotton insurance premiums; first-year report of Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (note: report itself not included).

F 16: Agriculture: Four-H (4-H) Club (1949). 

County membership and projects for 1949.

F 17: Agriculture: Livestock (1949).

Livestock prices; hoof and mouth disease; vaccination of livestock; experiment stations.

F 18: Agriculture: Production and Marketing Administration (1949).

Cottonseed purchase program; Caddo County conservation practices.

F 19: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1949).

Diversion of REA funds; electrification statistics; requests and applications; loan approvals; contract with conductor supplier; excerpt from meeting minutes; rural telephone service; brief digest of speech by Lyndon B. Johnson; list of REA-financed systems; extension of remarks of Senator Estes Kefauver on rural electrification; extension of remarks of W. R. Poage on rural telephones.

F 20: Agriculture: Agricultural Economics, Bureau of (1950).

Corn production; The Cotton Situation (1951 Outlook Issue); Current Developments in the Farm Real Estate Market (Nov. 1950).

F 21: Agriculture: Commodity Credit Corporation (1950).

Surplus grains for charity; appointments to board of directors and advisory board; potato dumping; grain handling complaints; surplus mung beans; surplus butter; construction loans; importation of Canadian potatoes; wheat storage; invitation to A. J. Loveland and/or Elmer Kruse to attend convention; use of surplus commodities in schools and hospitals.

F 22: Agriculture: Cotton (1950).

Export quotas; Cotton Mobilization Committee; cottonseed prices; cotton shortage.

F 23: Agriculture: Dairy (1950).

Butter grades and marketing.

F 24: Agriculture: Entomology (1950).

Insecticides for use against the green bug.

F 25: Agriculture: Farmers Home Administration (1950-1951).

Mineral interests and rights; disciplinary action against administrator; pamphlets re: farm loans; rural housing program; Oklahoma Rural Rehabilitation Corporation; demand by government to pay money; Report to Congress from Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; disaster loans; loans to farmers; dairy barn loan; damaged cotton; oil royalties; land improvement; peanut crop; crop losses; requirement that FHA loan funds be deposited in a particular bank. Correspondents include: Raymond Gary.

F 26: Agriculture: Forest Service (1950).

Acorns; organizational diagram.

F 27: Agriculture: General (1950).

Cooperatives; leasing of government lands; production controls; surplus commodities for hospitals; vocational education; national farm program; potatoes; resolutions of 59th Annual Tuskegee Institute Negro Farmers Conference; claim against Agricultural Adjustment Administration by Rayford Stone Company; Mexican foot and mouth disease program.

F 28-31: Agriculture: Production and Marketing Administration (1950).

1950 Handbook for LeFlore County; Packers and Stockyards Act; article on soil conservation in Harper County; surplus potatoes; surplus food to be used by dairymen; livestock sales; purchases of Mung beans and Chinese red beans; Soil Conservation Districts as vendors; job qualifications; agricultural information; support price for alfalfa seed; change in beef-grading standards; criticism of engineers; cotton acreage allotments; price supports for cotton; charitable uses for surplus food; lime, potash, and phosphate in LeFlore County; purchase orders for phosphate for farmers; annual statistical report (1949-1950) of National School Lunch Program; Woodward Dairy Experiment Station; cotton exports; commodities; egg support program; price supports for corn, wheat, and rice; milk; accomplishments of PMA programs in Oklahoma counties; Packers and Stockyards Act; community sales operation of Colonel Sparkman; Sparkman livestock sale; peanut acreage allotment; cotton acreage allotments; sugar; cattle inspection; chain of authority chart; industrial loans.

F 32: Agriculture: Poultry (1950).

Egg price supports; surplus eggs and butter.

F 33-34: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1950).

Steam generator plant; telephone brochure; rural roads; loan approvals; company contracts; secondary highway funds; telephone loan applications; electricity; KAMO-GRDA contract; list of financed systems; rural telephone program; pre-loan procedure booklet; Western Electric Cooperative loan; REA construction; school for managers; Kiamichi Electric Cooperative resolution.

F 35: Agriculture: Sugar (1950).

Prices; "The Facts About the Current Sugar Situation" by United States Beet Sugar Association; resolution adopted by Puerto Rican sugar producers.

F 36: Agriculture: Wheat (1950).

Loans; surpluses; newsletter from Senator Elmer Thomas. Correspondents include: Andrew F. Schoeppel.

F 37: Agriculture: Cotton (1951).

Exports; price ceiling.

F 38: Agriculture: Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (1951, 1954).

Destruction of wheat by wild geese.

F 39: Agriculture: General (1951-1952).

Oklahoma agriculture; burlap bag supply; brush land improvement; budget estimate; "USDA Monthly List of Publications and Motion Pictures"; statement of Senator George Aiken re: Truman administration; clearing of land; pink bollworm inspector; wheat ceilings; USDA Memoranda 1278, 1279, and 1280, re: conservation, research, and mobilization; press release from department. Correspondents include: Lindley Beckworth; Johnston Murray.

F 40: Agriculture: Livestock (1951).

Cruelty to animals; foot and mouth disease; livestock sales.

F 41: Agriculture: Poultry (1951).

Army dry egg purchase; Foreign Agriculture Circular. Correspondents include: Frank Pace.

F 42-43: Agriculture: Production and Marketing Administration (1951).

Increased acreage for cotton; list of newly-elected PMA committeemen; wheat acreage allotments for each county; USDA memoranda; Korean lespedeza prices; USDA publication about cotton acreage allotments; complaint about milk prices; parity prices for dairy products; peanut acreage allotment; alfalfa seed; grain sorghums; 90% parity; county progress reports; department reorganization; consolidation; suspension of Bryan County committee; Agricultural Conservation Program report; mung bean market; Washita County soil-building program handbooks; Jackson County accomplishments. Correspondents include: A. S. Mike Monroney.

F 44: Agriculture: Rural Electrification Administration (1951-1952).

Job vacancies; movement of REA offices; loan approvals; wage policy; resolution of Board of Trustees of Kiwash Electric Cooperative; organization of telephone cooperative in Tillman, Cotton and Stephens Counties; insurance coverage; articles about Southwestern Power Administration; National Rural Electric Cooperative Association newsletter. Correspondents include: Senator Edward Thyne.

F 45: Agriculture: Solicitor, Office of (1951).

Mineral rights.

F 46: Agriculture: Agricultural Conservation Program (1953, 1955).

Soil conservation; county annual reports.

F 47: Agriculture: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee (1953-1955).

Acreage allotments; seed and fertilizer, appointment of Lewis F. Wolfe; drought feed grains; drought programs; county reports.

F 48: Agriculture: Agricultural Subsidies (1953).

Correspondence.

F 49: Agriculture: Commodity Credit Corporation (1953).

Sales of certificates of interest; grain storage program; flour mill industry.

F 50: Agriculture: Commodity Stabilization Service (1953-1955).

Petition re: grain storage occupancy contracts; loans.

F 51: Agriculture: Cotton (1953).

Resolution of Oklahoma Cotton Ginners Association re: research money; irrigation funds; acreage allotments.

F 52: Agriculture: Drought (1953).

Oklahoma relief.

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