Series 729, Department of Agriculture, Immigration Division Records, consists of records from the defunct division. Of particular interest are two volumes of Appraisers' Reports to the Commissioner of Agriculture, regarding the application for the Chippewa Valley Colonization Company and the Wisconsin Colonization Company to sell mortgages on improved agricultural land to land mortgage associations. Arranged by colonization company and thereunder roughly by date of approval of the application, the typewritten reports which are bound in volumes, give the same information as the index cards in Series 1957, although it is less accessible. Township diagrams marking the location of the farm are also included.
Series 1955, 1956, 1958, and 1959, Department of Agriculture, Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory: Project Material, 1929-1941, 1947; Field Maps, 1928-1938; Small Scale Land Cover Maps, ca. 1932-1944; and Large Scale Land Cover Maps, ca. 1930's-1940's, are not related administratively to either Series 729 or 1957, but they provide a detailed view of rural Wisconsin in the 1930's.
