Abstract John Fay, a farmer near York, North Dakota, preserved his farm financial records providing detailed accounting of the family and business income and expenses from approximately 1923 to 1960. There are also records of a threshing partnership, his cattle shipping business at Rugby, North Dakota, and participation in the federal Plains Shelterbelt Project of 1935-1936.

Abstract Minutes and resolution relating to the establishment of a forest research center in North Dakota, copies of Forestry News Digest, newspaper clippings, and other documents, concerning Prairie States Forestry Project (also known as Great Plains Shelterbelt Project), of U.S. Forest Service, which was responsible for planting shelterbelts and windbreaks in North Dakota and the Great Plains. Persons represented include F.E. Cobb, director for North Dakota.