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Micro 471	Part 1 (Micro 471): Original Collection, 1937-1974 Physical Description: 11 reels of microfilm (35mm) Scope and Content Note The records of the Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association are organized into four series: Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws, Audit Reports, Minutes, and a Subject File of Local Shipping Cooperatives. Although Equity was founded in 1922, its Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws were revised in 1965; only these are included in the collection. The annual Audit Reports, 1947-1970, 1972-1974, present a detailed analysis of the financial status of the overall Association and of its regional auction markets. Three volumes of Minutes, 1944-1966, document Equity's regular Board of Directors' meetings, special Board meetings, and general annual meetings. The largest series in the collection is the Subject File of Local Shipping Cooperatives. It consists of files of many of the local cooperatives which operate through the eight regional auction markets. These forty-one files form a representative sampling of the cooperatives associated with Equity. All of the regional auction markets are represented except the Bonduel Market. The files consist mainly of financial records such as federal income tax returns, annual financial and operating statements, worksheets, and related correspondence. For several of the cooperatives, there are also articles of incorporation and by-laws. Arrangement of the Materials: The files are arranged alphabetically by regional auction market and alphabetically thereunder by local cooperative name.
Reel 1 Frame 1-11	Series: Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws, 1965
	Series: Audit Reports	⇧
Reel 1 Frame 12-1094	1947-1965
Reel 2 Frame 1-379	1966-1970, 1972-1974
	Series: Minutes	⇧
Reel 2 Frame 380-641	1944-1959
Reel 2 Frame 642-733	1960-1963
Reel 2 Frame 734-845	1964-1966
	Series: Subject Files of Local Shipping Cooperatives	⇧
	Altoona Auction Market
Reel 2 Frame 848-1075	Cadott-Boyd Cooperative Shipping Association, 1953-1965
Reel 3 Frame 1-360	Stanley Cooperative Shipping Association, 1950-1970
	Johnson Creek Auction Market
Reel 3 Frame 362-647	Ashippun Local Union, 1944-1963
Reel 3 Frame 648-849	Germantown Livestock Shipping Association, 1939-1966
Reel 3 Frame 850-1107	Hartford-Rubicon Livestock Cooperative, 1943-1966
Reel 4 Frame 1-214	Hustisford Farmers Equity Shipping Association, 1949-1964
Reel 4 Frame 215-408	Lebanon Equity Livestock Cooperative, 1942-1964
Reel 4 Frame 409-607	Ozaukee County Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association, 1945-1966
Reel 4 Frame 608-846	Rio Equity Farmers Livestock Shipping Association, 1952-1968
Reel 4 Frame 847-862	United Cooperative Association, 1968
	Reedsville Auction Market
Reel 4 Frame 864-1290	Chilton Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association, 1944-1968
Reel 5 Frame 1-253	Hilbert Livestock Marketing Cooperative, 1951-1968
	Richland Center Auction Market
Reel 5 Frame 255-490	Baraboo Livestock Cooperative Shipping Association, 1953-1966
Reel 5 Frame 491-504	LaFarge Farmers Union Shipping Association, 1966
Reel 6 Frame 401-421	Mauston Livestock Cooperative, 1966
Reel 5 Frame 505-907	Richland Livestock Cooperative, 1937-1966
Reel 6 Frame 1-400	Sauk County Equity Union Cooperative Shipping Association, 1948-1966
	Ripon Auction Market
Reel 6 Frame 423-471	Central Winnebago Cooperative, 1949, 1954, 1964
Reel 6 Frame 472-477	East Waushara Livestock Cooperative, 1960
Reel 6 Frame 478-524	Empire Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association, 1954, 1963, 1964
Reel 6 Frame 525-783	Markesan-Fairwater Livestock Cooperative, 1944-1964
Reel 6 Frame 784-915	Ripon Cooperative Shipping Association, 1950-1964
Reel 6 Frame 916-983	Ripon, consolidation of local associations, 1963
Reel 7 Frame 1-212	Tri-County Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association, 1952-1964
Reel 7 Frame 213-500	Washington County Cooperative Shipping Association, 1939-1966
Reel 7 Frame 501-512	Waushara Livestock Cooperative, 1964
	Sparta Auction Market
Reel 7 Frame 514-698	Cashton-Melvina Shipping Association, 1944-1962
Reel 7 Frame 699-785	Elroy-Kendall Shipping Association, 1948-1967
Reel 7 Frame 786-1043	Sparta Equity Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association, 1944-1963
Reel 8 Frame 1-274	Tomah Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association, 1943-1963
	Stratford Auction Market
Reel 8 Frame 276-398	Auburndale Cooperative Shipping Association, 1951-1956, 1963-1964, 1967
Reel 8 Frame 399-647	Central Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association, 1951-1968
Reel 8 Frame 648-1060	Chili Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association, 1948-1967
Reel 9 Frame 1-297	Equity Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association, 1953-1967
Reel 9 Frame 298-452	Equity Central Cooperative Livestock Market, 1954-1962
Reel 9 Frame 453-641	Equity Central Cooperative Livestock Market, correspondence relative to the recapitalization of, 1952-1955
Reel 9 Frame 642-902	Farmer's Union Cooperative Shipping Association, 1952-1967
Reel 9 Frame 903-1116	Haider Community Livestock Cooperative, 1954-1967
Reel 10 Frame 1-312	Junction City Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association, 1944-1967
Reel 10 Frame 313-599	Marathon-Portage Livestock Shipping Cooperative, 1962-1967 Note: Formerly Knowlton Shipping Cooperative, 1951-1962.
	Stratford Cooperative Shipping Association
Reel 10 Frame 600-953	1950-1961
Reel 11 Frame 1-294	1962-1967
Reel 11 Frame 295-602	Wood County Livestock Cooperative, 1950-1967
M75-454	Part 2 (M75-454): Additions, 1932-1969 Physical Description: 19.2 c.f. (16 record center cartons, 1 archives box and 6 flat boxes) and 52 photographs Scope and Content Note: Records include correspondence; annual, district, staff and board meeting minutes and packets; activity and field reports; financial summaries and payroll ledgers; and materials related to auction markets and the National Livestock Producers Association. Also included are correspondence and reports related to efforts to combat diseases in cattle, photographs, and a scrapbook documenting National Farmers Organization (NFO) protests in 1964.	⇧
Box 1 Folder 1	National Livestock Producers Association, directors and managers meeting, November 28 - December 2, 1966
Box 1 Folder 2	District meeting folder, 1967
Box 1 Folder 3	Market budgets, 1965
Box 1 Folder 4	Livestock marketing study session, Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association, Wisconsin Feeder Pig Marketing Cooperative, August 10-11, 1966
Box 1 Folder 5	Staff meeting, May 20, 1966
Box 1 Folder 6	Prospective council membership, 1967
Box 1 Folder 7-8	Information and correspondence on Wisconsin Feeder Pig Marketing Cooperative, 1962-1965
Box 1 Folder 9	National Farmers Organization subject file, 1963-1965
Box 1 Folder 10	Financial reports, Produce Order Buyers, Inc., 1964-1966
Box 1 Folder 11	Market managers meetings, Russell G. Hvam, August 19, 1966
Box 1 Folder 12-14	Staff meetings, Russell G. Hvam, March - December 1965
Box 1 Folder 15-16	Board of directors meeting, October 28, November 16, 1965
Box 1 Folder 17-18	Staff meeting, January 22, March 5, 1965
Box 1 Folder 19	National Livestock Producers Association, loan application worksheets, 1960
Box 1 Folder 20	Correspondence and reports, National Livestock Producer Magazine subscription, 1954, 1959
Box 1 Folder 21	District meetings, miscellaneous, 1956
Box 1 Folder 22	Financial information, 1951-1959
Box 1 Folder 23	Correspondence, Russell G. Hvam and G.H. Hopper, 1960-1962
Box 1 Folder 24	National Livestock Producers Association, managers meeting, December 3-5, 1964
Box 1 Folder 25-28	Rental income correspondence and invoices, 1957-1960
Box 2 Folder 1	Personnel file, Warren Vodak, 1962-1963
Box 2 Folder 2	American Institute of Cooperation, newsletter, 1963
Box 2 Folder 3	Insurance Cooperative Agency, board of directors, 1962-1967
Box 2 Folder 4	Subject file, lamb pools, 1963
Box 2 Folder 5	Russell G. Hvam, personal correspondence, 1963
Box 2 Folder 6	Statistics on sheep producers, 1963
Box 2 Folder 7	Russell G. Hvam, pending correspondence, 1963
Box 2 Folder 8-25	Activity reports, A-W, 1965
Box 2 Folder 26-32	Field reports, H-M, 1965
Box 2 Folder 33	Field reports, 1964
Box 2 Folder 34	Employees special activity reports, 1964
Box 2 Folder 35	Wisconsin Council of Agriculture Claflin memorial fund, correspondence and invoices, 1965-1967
Box 2 Folder 36-37	Annual meeting, Wisconsin Council of Agricultural Cooperatives, 1967
Box 3 Folder 1	Board of directors meeting, January 25, 1966
Box 3 Folder 2	Annual meeting, Wisconsin Council of Agricultural Cooperatives, 1966
Box 3 Folder 3	Boscobel Livestock Sales Co-op, correspondence, 1952-1959
Box 3 Folder 4	Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association and Producer Order Buyers, Inc., application for registration under Packers & Stockyards Act (1921), 1964
Box 3 Folder 5	Coon Valley notes, 1965
Box 3 Folder 6	Miscellaneous correspondence and reports, National Livestock Producers Association and animal health, 1963
Box 3 Folder 7	Staff meeting, Russell G. Hvam, December 10, 1965
Box 3 Folder 8	Board of directors meeting, September 21, 1965
Box 3 Folder 9	District staff meeting, June 4, 1965
Box 3 Folder 10-15	Board of directors meetings, October 1964 - August 1965
Box 3 Folder 16-18	Wisconsin Council of Agricultural Co-op, annual meeting, 1964-1966
Box 3 Folder 19	Graded dairy cattle sale, Bonduel, 1963
Box 3 Folder 20	Accounts and records, tools for business success, 1964
Box 3 Folder 21-23	National Livestock Producers Association, managers' meetings, 1964-1965
Box 3 Folder 24	Miscellaneous meeting correspondence and agendas, 1964-1965
Box 3 Folder 25	Russell G. Hvam's file, miscellaneous livestock publications and Equity Cooperative by-laws, 1963
Box 3 Folder 26	Russell G. Hvam, staff meeting, December 19, 1964
Box 3 Folder 27	Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association 43rd annual meeting, 1965
Box 3 Folder 28	Meetings attended by Equity personnel, 1963
Box 3 Folder 29	District meetings, 1962
Box 4 Folder 1	Auctioneering information, 1963
	Staff meetings
Box 4 Folder 2	September 4, 1964
Box 4 Folder 3	Russell G. Hvam, April 24, 1964
Box 4 Folder 4	February 28, 1964
Box 4 Folder 5	Russell G. Hvam, February 28, 1964
Box 4 Folder 6	Market managers meeting, January 10, 1964
Box 4 Folder 7-8	Auction market, general information, 1958
Box 4 Folder 9	Analysis of livestock receipts and operating costs, auction markets, January - March, 1959
Box 4 Folder 10	Wisconsin Council of Agriculture agendas, reports and miscellaneous editorials, 1963-1964
Box 4 Folder 11	Feeder pig regulations, 1961-1963
Box 4 Folder 12	35th annual meeting, banquet tickets, 1956
Box 4 Folder 13	Wisconsin Council of Agricultural Cooperative, annual meeting, October 24-25, 1963
Box 4 Folder 14-15	Chilton Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association, board meeting minutes, 1932-1967
Box 4 Folder 16	Miscellaneous financial statements, “Equity News” newsletters, event programs and brochures, 1960-1969
Box 4 Folder 17	News clippings, National Farmers Organization deaths, 1964
Box 4 Folder 18	Annual meeting folders, 1961-1968
Box 4 Folder 19	District meeting folders, 1966-1969
Box 5 Folder 1	Plans of consolidation, undated
Box 5 Folder 2	Auction market material, 1964-1965
Box 5 Folder 3	Minutes and programs of meetings, 1965
Box 5 Folder 4	Miscellaneous correspondence, 1963-1965
Box 5 Folder 5	Move of offices to Baraboo, 1965
Box 5 Folder 6	News items and newsletters, 1965
Box 5 Folder 7	Pooling studies, 1965
Box 5 Folder 8	Sales, cost and contribution analyses, 1964-1965
Box 5 Folder 9	Tariff items, 1963-1964
Box 5 Folder 10	Miscellaneous livestock consignment notes, meat manufacturing brochures, and employee application form for Fidelity and Deposit Company, undated
Box 5 Folder 11	United States Department of Agriculture livestock test reports, 1948, 1954
Box 6 Folder 1-10	Invoices by district, 1960
Box 6 Folder 11	Board of directors meeting correspondence, 1960
Box 6 Folder 12-57	Correspondence, A-W, 1960
	Correspondence
Box 7 Folder 1-58	A-W, 1961
Box 7 Folder 59-85	A-M, 1962
Box 8 Folder 1-20	N-Z, 1962
Box 8 Folder 21-66	A-Z, 1964
Box 8 Folder 67-77	Invoices, A-Z, 1964
Box 9 Folder 1	Correspondence to directors, 1965
Box 9 Folder 2	Livestock market newsletter, 1965
Box 9 Folder 3	Correspondence to field men, 1965
Box 9 Folder 4-47	Correspondence, A-W, 1965
Box 9 Folder 48-110	National livestock and agricultural publications, newsletters and circulars, 1965
Box 10 Folder 1	Field reports, 1966
Box 10 Folder 2-18	Activity reports, 1966
	Correspondence
Box 10 Folder 19	Open house, 1965
Box 10 Folder 20-61	A-R, 1966
Box 11 Folder 1-15	Correspondence, S-Z, 1966
Box 11 Folder 16-58	Livestock and farming publications, 1966
Box 11 Folder 59	Auction daily recaps, schedule and financial book, undated
Box 11 Folder 60-65	Meeting minutes, districts 1-9, 1966
Box 11 Folder 66	Field reports, 1967
Box 11 Folder 67-84	Activity reports, 1967
Box 11 Folder 85-109	Correspondence, A-M, 1967
Box 11 Folder 59	Auction daily recap, schedule, financial book
Box 12 Folder 1-42	Correspondence, A-Z, 1967
Box 12 Folder 43	Weekly calf reports, 1967
Box 12 Folder 44	District meeting folders, 1967
Box 12 Folder 45-46	Field reports, 1963, 1968
Box 12 Folder 47-59	Activity reports, 1968
Box 12 Folder 60-64	Correspondence, A-B, 1968
Box 13 Folder 1-2	National Livestock Producers Association, 1968
Box 13 Folder 3-47	Annual meeting correspondence, 1968
Box 13 Folder 48	Auctioneer schedules, 1968
Box 13 Folder 49	Correspondence to all auctioneers, 1968
Box 13 Folder 50-51	Annual meeting, 1968
Box 13 Folder 52	District meeting, 1968
Box 13 Folder 53	Weekly calf reports, 1968
Box 13 Folder 54	William Luethy, correspondence, 1967
Box 13 Folder 55	Open house Cooperative Service Center, 1968
Box 13 Folder 56	Correspondence to directors, 1968
Box 13 Folder 57	Miscellaneous photocopy masters of forms, memos, meeting minutes and reports, 1968
Box 13 Folder 58	Cooperative Service Center, 1967-1968
Box 14 Folder 1	Field reports, 1969
Box 14 Folder 2-13	Activity reports, 1969
Box 14 Folder 14-61	Correspondence, A-W, 1969
Box 14 Folder 22	National Livestock Producers Association, 1969
Box 15 Folder 1-14	Correspondence, M-R, 1963
Box 15 Folder 15-20	Field reports, 1963
Box 15 Folder 21-34	Activity reports, 1963
Box 15 Folder 35	Milwaukee post office general information, 1963
Box 15 Folder 36	Letters of appreciation from members of Wisconsin 4-H dairy cattle, 1963
Box 15 Folder 37	National Council of Farmers Co-op, 1963
Box 15 Folder 38-50	News letters and release reports, national, 1963
Box 15 Folder 51	Association information sheets, February 1963
Box 15 Folder 52	Wisconsin State Department of Agriculture newsletter, 1963
Box 15 Folder 53	Agricultural situation, 1963
Box 15 Folder 54	Christmas card samples, 1963
Box 15 Folder 55	Correct association names, 1963
Box 15 Folder 56	Non-chargeable supplies sent to local associations, 1962
Box 15 Folder 57	“Wisconsin Crop and Livestock Reporter,” newsletter, 1954-1961
Box 15 Folder 58	Wisconsin blue tag heifer calf program, undated
Box 15 Folder 59	St. Paul Bank for Cooperative News, 1961
Box 15 Folder 60	Livestock quarterly report, 1960-1961
Box 15 Folder 61	Miscellaneous cooperative reports, 1959
Box 15 Folder 62	Working together, pamphlets, 1944
Box 15 Folder 63	Valentine Livestock Auction Cooperative, 1959
Box 15 Folder 64	Market cards, Milwaukee, 1960
Box 15 Folder 65	Weekly market reports, January - December 1959
Box 15 Folder 66-68	Daily market quotations, 1959
Box 15 Folder 69-70	Telegrams, outgoing and incoming, 1959
Box 15 Folder 71	Agricultural research service, 1959
Box 15 Folder 72	Producers and Texas livestock market associations, 1959
Box 15 Folder 73	Teletype messages, outgoing, 1959
Box 15 Folder 74-75	Board of directors, 1958-1959
Box 16 Folder 1-11	Financial statements and reports, 1951-1961
Box 17 Folder 1	Member association exemption study, 1944
Box 17 Folder 2	Cooperative financial reports and statistics for the years , 1959-1963
Box 17 Folder 3	Pending correspondence, 1946-1954
Box 17 Folder 4	Farmers Cooperative Marketing Association, Phillips, Wisconsin, correspondence, 1948-1958
Box 17 Folder 5	Southwest Shawano Livestock Cooperative Association, Marion, Wisconsin, correspondence, 1946-1962
Box 17 Folder 6	Audit reports of the Southwest Shawano Cooperative, Marion, Wisconsin, 1952-1963
Box 17 Folder 7	Transcript of court proceedings, Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association vs. Milwaukee Stock Yards Company, 1937
Box 17 Folder 8	Correspondence and memoranda, Co-op law revision, 1954
Box 17 Folder 9	Board of directors meeting, December 14, 1965
Box 17 Folder 10	Activity reports, P.E. May, 1961-1962
Box 17 Folder 11	Activity reports, R.H. Steidl, 1961
Box 17 Folder 12	Tuberculosis and Bang's in animals, 1960-1961
Box 17 Folder 13	Bang's correspondence, 1955-1962
Box 17 Folder 14	Directors of the Central Wisconsin Stockyards Co-op of Reedsburg, meeting minutes, September 1950-September 1955
Box 17 Folder 15-17	Central Wisconsin Stockyards Co-op of Reedsburg, correspondence, financial reports and invoices, and blueprints, 1950-1958
Box 18 Folder 1-2	Scrapbooks, 1938, 1951-1964
	Payroll ledgers
Box 19	1943-1946
Box 20	1947-1950
Box 21	1951-1952
Box 22	1953-1955
Box 23	1956-1957
PH Box 24	Photographs of Association meetings and group portraits, studio portraits of past district directors, and photographs of Association auction market at Johnson Creek, Wisconsin, circa 1930s-1940s, 1956-1960 Physical Description: 3 folders