Description: Papers of Laurence J. Norton (1896-1956), Professor of Agricultural Economics (1923-1956) including class notes, class record books, statements prepared for the Armour case (1947) and the General Mills Rye Corner Case (1947) concerning practices in the meat packing industry and the grain futures market, correspondence, Financing Agriculture (1940, 1948), articles, bulletins, and speeches on agricultural economics.
For biographical information on Norton and his wife, as well as his Cissna Park farm, see Lowell D. Hill Papers (8/4/38).