[Letter from Doane Agricultural Service to Daniel W. Kempner, April 9, 1952] Page: 6 of 8
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K c. : i13. FARM ACCOUNTING
Accounting systems are established, accounts are
kept, audited, and analyzed. Budgets are set up and
analyzed periodically.
14. DOANE AGRICULTURAL DIGEST
A complete agricultural information service for
farmers, businessmen, farm leaders, advisers, and
teachers. It consists of a 450-page loose-leaf refer-
ence volume and a twice-monthly supplement
service. The Digest service analyzes and interprets
economic trends affecting farming and business,
gives specific advice on "When to Sell and Buy" and
which farm enterprises are safest and most profit-
able. It keeps you posted on new and important
developments in farming with minimum reading.
The reference volume and twice-monthly supple-
ments for one year $20.00. Supplements without
volume $10.00 a year.
15. DOANE RURAL APPRAISAL HANDBOOK
The only complete manual for appraising farms by
the American Rural Appraisal System. This system
is based on long-time earnings, and adjusted to
reflect location and other special features. It was
adopted by Iowa State Tax Commission as the
official appraisal manual for their tax assessors. $10.00.
16. STATE FARM FACTS
There has long been a need for standard yield and
price data by counties for use in estimating long-
term income from farm land. Such data are needed
in appraising farms, lending money to farmers, and
setting-up farm management budgets. These data
have been approved by a special council of the
American Society of Farm Managers and Rural
Appraisers. FARM FACTS are available for
Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minne-
sota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Price per state, $5.00.
17. DOANE AGRICULTURAL REPORTS
Monthly farm management letter "Farming for
Profit" for distribution as a service to farmers by
banks and other local business concerns. It builds
business and promotes good-will. Territories are
protected. Firm names may be imprinted.
18. DOANE FARM MANAGEMENT NEWS
This is a monthly column designed for county news-
papers, and business or association publications.
It may be purchased by newspapers to be run as a
service to their subscribers or it may be sponsored
by a local business firm as advertising. The price
is $2.50 an issue or lower depending on frequency
of use.
19. DIGEST PAGE REPRINTS
Extra Digest pages are offered at quantity discounts
for distribution to dealers, salesmen, buyers, field
men, customers and prospects. Schools, banks and
business firms selling to, or buying from, farmers,
use this service. It offers a dignified and effective
means of indirect advertising. Firm names may be
imprinted if desired.
20. EDITORIAL SERVICES
Feature articles and regular pages are written for
farm magazines and business publications. Copy is
prepared for company publications and mailing
pieces to farmers.TO ORDER
Please enter my order for items:Name
Street or
Route Address_P. O.
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21. FARM BUILDING PLANS
Doane revolutionary designs in farm buildings save:
-from 1 to 1 in material costs
-from 1 to 1 in construction labor
-from 1 to 3 in "chore" labor throughout the
life of the buildings.
Doane designed buildings are tested on the farm and
fit practical farm management programs. Plans are
designed for quick and easy erection by ordinary
farm labor. Fifty plans are now available and new
plans are being added each month. Information on
building plans will be sent on request. It will include
illustrations, sizes, uses, capacities, advantages,
and other information.
22. FARM BUILDING CONSTRUCTION SERVICE
A service for farm building contractors and suppliers.
Firms are licensed to use copyrighted plans and
patent-pending features in erecting Doane designed
farm buildings, and to supply materials to farmers
who want to do their own construction. The low
cost and labor saving features result in the rapid
development of a booming farm building business.
23. OTHER SERVICES
a. How To Buy A Farm ....................$1.00
A 23-page booklet telling how to check up on a farm before buying, or
how to check up on a farm you now own.
b. The Farm (building) Book ............... $1.15
A 96-page paper-covered book profusely illustrated, written by a farm
management organization. It tells how much livestock can pay for
buildings, and covers the many factors on arrangement, work simplifica-
tion, and planning necessary to get the right buildings at low cost. Price
$1.00 plus fifteen cents postage and handling charges.
c. Doane Ideas On Farm Buildings .......... $1.15
A new book describing Doane principles of cutting costs of labor and
material in erecting new buildings, and in saving "chore" labor through-
out the life of the structure. It describes each Doane-designed building,
telling something of its construction and how the building is used in
reducing work around the farmstead. Contains 126 practical cost and
labor saving ideas. Shows prices of Doane Farm Building plans. This
book FREE with orders for plans totaling $10.00 or more.
d. Farm Management and Appraisal Forms
Inventory blanks, labor distribution sheets, building repair contracts,
sale contracts, budget forms, expense statements, farm operating con-
tracts (leases), appraisal forms (long, short, ranch).
e. Vertical Farm Diversification by
D. Howard Doane..-....................$2.75
A new book published by the Oklahoma Press containing new material
on this important subject. Doane contends that the road to greater
farm profit is not through production of a greater variety of farm prod-
ucts, but rather through taking over some of the functions now per-
formed by city people on the products best adapted to the farm.
f. Farm Account Book.....................$2.50
A complete simplified farm bookkeeping service and tax record. Loose-
leaf cover permits adding replacement sheets each year.
DOANE AGRICULTURAL SERVICE, INC.
5144 Delmar Boulevard,
St. Louis 8, Missouri
FOR INFORMATION
Please send me without obligation more information on items: No.
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Doane Argicultural Service. [Letter from Doane Agricultural Service to Daniel W. Kempner, April 9, 1952], letter, April 9, 1952; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1344477/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rosenberg Library.