Box 1

Correspondence. Programs and general topics include allocations and expenditures (1952-1956); Great Plains Field Station; accomplishments (Tillman County, 1954 and 1955); recommendations; and emergency credit assistance.

Correspondence. Constituent questions include Soil Conservation Service report; farm acreage allotments for cotton, peanuts, and wheat; deferred grazing program; expediting payment for soil-building practices; contracts; federal cost-sharing for leveling land for irrigation purposes, crop land protection, terrace construction and pond dam construction; payment for Agricultural Conservation Program practices; and release and reapportionment of acreage allotments.

Correspondence. Topics include markets for fat cattle and the cattle price situation; disaster loans to feed cattle; and the care of cattle.

Correspondence. Topics include open storage of cotton for loan purposes; buildings put to use; money lost by government on cheese; castor bean production; and surplus grain being made available to farmers.

Correspondence. Topics include wheat and cotton allotments; price supports; farm income; and wheat surplus and imports.

Correspondence. Questions include contract extensions; warehouse contracts; government storage of surplus butter and cheese; sale of cotton linters; and rice acreage allotments.

The largest of the series, the departmental files include 5.3 cubic feet of material. Arranged alphabetically by the appropriate department, these include constituent correspondence, speeches, agency reports, pamphlets, and other official publications. Topics include Oklahoma dams and reservoirs, federal aid to Oklahoma education programs, and Native Americans.

Correspondence. Topics include loans on outside-stored cotton; shipping orders; and alternative storage.

Correspondence. Topics include grasshopper infestation, hail, rain, and tornadoes.

Correspondence. Questions include change of wheat and cotton allotments; establishment of cotton allotments; cotton loan papers; and alteration of existing allotments.