Farm Cost Accounting Records | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Farm Cost Accounting Records including farm accounts, cost studies, summary sheets & comparative analyses for farms in Champaign-Piatt (1920-47), Clinton (1924-29), Franklin (1912-23), Hancock (1912-23) & McLean (1926) counties; regional farm labor cost (1948-65) & crop history (1954-60) records; list of account-keeping farms (1912-31); inspection trip reports (1913-22); crop histories (1926-28, 1942-45); documents on work in Tazewell & Woodford counties (1914-24); cost studies for raising castor beans, hemp, sunflowers & turkeys (1943-47) & a farm mechanization study (1920-37). The Departments of Farm Organization & Management (1917-32) & Agricultural Economics (1933-) prepared the studies from data obtained by the Farm Bureau/Business Farm Management Service.