Box 1

Scope and Contents Inside the front cover is a drawing, to scale, of numbered blocks of acreage of alfalfa on the Moore farm. Each block has a corresponding page in the journal listing date, amount, and cost for water, fertilizer, labor, harvesting, baling, etc. The last part of the journal contains an engine account, orchard, wheat, threshing, grain, alfalfa seed, etc. pages.

Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains financial information regarding the Moore family's Twin Wells farm, from 1918-1937. The cash books, ledgers and journal record receipts and expenditures for labor, alfalfa, cotton, miscellaneous supplies and expenses, improvements, household expenses, fuel/oil/gas, seed, grain, fertilizer, sheep, cattle, new equipment, taxes, insurance, charity, legal expenses, C. N. Moore, C. W. Moore and E. O. Moore. The ledgers for October 1930-December 1937 are organized by month...

Scope and Contents A 1921 "Membership Certificate of the Dexter Oil-Users' Association" for C. N. Moore, two "Motor Vehicle Property Tax Receipts," dated 1928, canceled check signed by E. O. Moore from the Twin Wells Farm, dated April 20, 1929, also a receipt from El Paso Union Stock Yards Co. listing E. O. Moore as seller of 36 hogs on 6/26/33.

Scope and Contents "Loose Leaf Farm Accounting System for Farmers ... contains Reliable Information for All Farm Departments, compiled or taken From the Latest Reports and Experiments of the United States Government Bureau of Agriculture."

Scope and Contents Estimate of cost of production and profits from alfalfa hay for 1924 to 1928, and check to C. Holsture signed by C. N. Moore.