Park Poutry Producers Association records, 1923-1941.

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Park Poutry Producers Association records, 1923-1941.

Financial records; order sheets; sales records; producer contracts; correspondence; minutes (1923-1924); articles of incorporation and association; bylaws; membership lists; materials from U.S. Dept. of Agriculture giving instructions for killing, dressing, and shipping turkeys; and sales lists (1930-1937) for the Northwest Turkey Growers Association. Persons represented include Earl Sexton and John Nickelson, association managers in the 1930s.

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United States. Department of Agriculture

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The United States Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln and was elevated to a Cabinet level organization by President Grover Cleveland in 1889. The Department of Agriculture assists farmers and producers of food as well as creating policies and programs related to food distribution and nutrition information. The United States Department of Agriculture controls a number of regional offices through out the continential United States and its territories....

Northwest Turkey Growers Association

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Park Poultry Producers Association

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Sexton, Earl

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