Title: Lafayette County Breeders Cooperative Association Records
Inclusive Dates: 1946-1973

Creator:

• Lafayette County Breeders Cooperative Association (Wis.)

Call Number: Platteville Mss AE

Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Lafayette County Breeders Cooperative Association, formed to improve dairy herds through selective breeding and artificial insemination programs. Included are minutes, membership lists, financial records, and technicians' reports from the organization's founding to its dissolution.

Language: English

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The Lafayette County Breeders Cooperative Association was incorporated February 20, 1946, in Darlington, Wisconsin, to promote better farming methods, eradicate disease, and generally improve dairy herds through selective breeding and artificial insemination programs. A board of directors, empowered to borrow money, purchase land, and conduct business transactions, and a staff of veterinary technicians constituted the administration of the Association. An annual meeting and special meetings as necessary were held and any livestock owner who paid a membership fee and promised to use the services of the association was eligible for membership.

During its short period of greatest activity, the association attracted members from Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa, and its technicians visited hundreds of farms each month. Declining membership and services caused the members to dissolve the association on November 16, 1960, although administrative activities continued until 1967, with final dissolution occurring in 1973.

The operation of the association is revealed in a long series of minutes of membership and directors' meetings, and in its financial records, which span the entire history of the association. The collection is divided into two series, Administrative Records and Financial Records. Within each series the records are arranged chronologically.

ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS include minutes, December 1946-November 1962 and March 1967-November 1968, of regular monthly and annual membership meetings, directors' and special meetings, and joint meetings held with the Dairy Herd Improvement Association.

The FINANCIAL RECORDS of the association not only consist of audit reports, other financial statements, and income tax returns, but also include scattered monthly reports of the technicians, detailing the number of visits made, number of miles driven, and expenses.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Paul Prine, Darlington, Wisconsin, 1977. Accession Number: M77-320

Processing Information

Processed by Menzi Behrnd, August 16, 1978.

Platteville Mss AE	Series: Administrative Records
Box   1 Folder   1	Minutes, December 1946-November 1962, March 1967-November 1968
Box   1 Folder   2	Membership lists, 1955, circa 1967
Box   1 Folder   3	Miscellany, 1946-1973
	Series: Financial Records	⇧
Box   1 Folder   4-7	Audit reports, 1948, 1951-1961, 1964-1966 Note: Also includes financial statements, 1948-1950, 1970, 1972.
Box   1 Folder   8	Income tax returns, 1946-1973
Box   1 Folder   9	Technicians' monthly reports, 1946-1958