1. NANCY K. BERLAGE received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower in Baltimore, Maryland.
2. 1 "How to Organize a Township Farm Bureau," ca.1927, American Farm Bureau Federation Records (hereafter AFBF), T-231, Special Collections, Iowa State University, Ames (hereafter ISU).
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4. 2 Ibid.; recreated from accounts of meetings in "Community Night," Bureau Farmer (Chicago, Ill.), March 1928, sect. Texas Farm Bureau, 21;
5. I.A.A. Record (Bloomington, Ill.), 3 January 1923, 1-3;