8/4/66 Guide to the S. Gus Swanson Farm Records S. Gus Swanson Farm Records

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Guide to the S. Gus Swanson Farm Records 1927/1984 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection S. Gus Swanson Farm Records 1927-1984 8/4/66 Swanson, Sven G. 0.80 English University of Illinois Archives
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Genre/Form of Material: Farm Accounts Papers Topical Term: Farm Management Service Vermilion County, Illinois
Administrative Information Accruals:

2/27/87

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological

Scope and Contents

Records of the Mr.& Mrs. S. Gus Swanson 140 acre farm in Butler Township, (between East Lynn & Rankin, Vermilion County). Recorded on Illinois Farm Bureau Farm Management Service Farm Account Books (1929, 1934-57), the records contain detailed information on farm operations for each year including an inventory of land, improvements, building and livestock; livestock fees and sales; dairy and egg sales; machinery, equipment and automobile inventory and operating expenses; map of the farm and crop-system summary; crops raised and sold; inventory of feed, grain and supplies; cash receipts and expenses; summary of expenses including taxes and unpaid family labor; capital purchases and sales; products used on the farm and a financial business analysis summary. The series includes Sears-Roebuck (1927-28) and John Deere (1930) farm record books; Agricultural Economics 20 "Home Farm Problem" by Earl Swanson (1941), soil conservation plans (1949, 1984) and Centennial Farm correspondence (1981-82) for the farm purchased by Swanson's father-in-law Ludvig Erikson in 1881.