USA: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15126
Notes:
320 pages., Chapter 10 (pp. 226-238) "Down on the Farm" - describes early farm magazines, leading farm periodicals, regionals, journals featuring special breeds and crops, and those for rural youths. --- Chapter 11 (pp. 239-272) "Land of the Giants" - includes information about farm publishers such as Meredith Corporation, The Miller Publishing Company, Prairie Farmer Publishing Company and Watt Publishing Company.
USA: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 111 Document Number: C10788
Notes:
329 pages., Biography of Burridge D. Butler, owner of Prairie Farmer state farm paper, Radio Station WLS, Chicago, Illinois, and other media organizations in Arizona during his industrious career. Chronicles the history of these two major mass media organizations which he came to control early in the 1900s.
