Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06719
Notes:
Doane Agricultural Service, St. Louis, Missouri. 13 pages., This document consists of data pages involving comparative farm periodical circulation, readership, reader-perceived usefulness and circulation x farm income, plus circulation trends (1964-1981) for selected periodicals in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin.
Describes the history and current status of the Master Farmer program used by Standard Farm Papers to recognize outstanding farmers in their circulation areas (21 states).
Hays, Robert G. (author / Professor, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL) and Professor, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 82 Document Number: C04889
Notes:
In: Hays, Robert G. State science in Illinois : the scientific surveys, 1850-1978. Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, 1980. p. 17-34
See related dissertation: "Reading, reform and rural change: the Midwestern farm press, 1895-1920", This article argues that historians should not take agricultural newspapers as is and assume they expressed the farmer's point of view. Farm newspapers often reflected urban reform ideas, such as those involving rural school consolidation, rural churches and family farms. "Farm newspapers are better seen not as expressing the ideas of farmers, but providing a forum for reformers and farmers to debate proposed changes to country life." Research involved four midwestern farm newspapers between 1895 and 1920: Iowa Homestead; Wallaces' Farmer; Prairie Farmer; and Missouri Ruralist.
