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2. American fertilizer practices
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- National Fertilizer Association (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 1929
- Published:
- USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08957
- Notes:
- Page 16 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Summary of research reported by the National Fertilizer Association, Inc., Washington, D.C. 1929. 38 pages.
3. Farmers' reaction to advertising
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 1964
- Published:
- USA: Farm Journal Inc., Philadelphia, PA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10776
- Notes:
- Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Research Library Newsletter, Farm Journal magazine, April 1, 1964. Claude W. Gifford Collection. 2 pages., Summarizes findings of a survey through a convenience sample of midwestern farmers by Fletcher, Wessel and Enright Advertising Agency, St. Joseph, Missouri. Invited information about biggest faults of farm advertising, farm shows attended, and most helpful sources of information for buying automated feeding system or grain storage and handling system.
4. Farmers' sources of information
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 1965
- Published:
- USA: Farm Journal Inc., Philadelphia, PA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10779
- Notes:
- Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Pages 1-3 in Research Library Newsletter, Farm Journal, July 21, 1965., Brief summaries of findings in four theses conducted at the University of Illinois, 1958-1962.
5. Farmers' sources of information about machinery
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 1965
- Published:
- USA: Farm Journal Inc., Philadelphia, PA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10781
- Notes:
- Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Pages 3-4 in Research Library Newsletter, Farm Journal, September 15, 1965., Findings from a national research project of the National Farm and Power Equipment Dealers and reported in Farm and Power Equipment magazine. Questions involved where farmers first see and hear such information and what sources they consider most useful.
6. In survey after survey farmers rate farm magazines as their Number One source of farming information
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 1965-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: D10763
- Notes:
- Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Claude W. Gifford Collection. 22 pages., A Farm Journal document that briefly summarizes findings from 18 surveys conducted by universities, advertising firms, farm periodicals, and a trade association between 1957 and 1963.
7. Knowledge and use of recommended farm practices
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Aurbach, H.A. (author) and Kaufman, H.F. (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 1958-07
- Published:
- USA: Extension Service Circular 518, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08366
- Journal Title:
- Review of Extension Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 1957
- Notes:
- Pages 53-54 in Review of Extension Research, January through December 1957. Information Sheet 540, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, Mississippi State University, State College. 1956.
8. Poultry survey
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- McNiece, D.E. (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 1954
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08626
- Notes:
- Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. Department of Poultry, New York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York. 19 pages.
9. Sources of information important to farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rogers, Everett M. (author) and Burdge, Rabel J. (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 1965
- Published:
- USA: Farm Journal Inc., Philadelphia, PA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10780
- Notes:
- Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Page 4 in Research Library Newsletter, Farm Journal, August 11, 1965., Selected findings of a small Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station study involving personal interviews with truck farmers in Ohio. Rankings of information sources were provided, by adopter category (i.e., innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards).
10. The Extension Service in Vermont. Part 1: Farmers and the Extension Service
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 1947
- Published:
- USA: Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08940
- Notes:
- Page 9 in Grace Gallup and Lucinda Crile, Bibliography on Extension Research, November 1943-1948. Library List No. 48. USDA Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. U.S. Brief description of a research study by the U.S. Extension Service in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 1947. 109 pages.