Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Surveys by county agents suggest that numbers of farms equipped with radios in the U.S. grew from 145,000 in 1923 to 365,000 in 1924 to 550,000 in 1925. Farmers were found to tune in not so much for grand opera or baseball or political speecheds as for weather and market reports.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28829
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Bulletin 11., Proceedings of the Farm-Electrical Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 12-13, 1926. Theme: "What about rural electrification?" Includes an article by Mrs. Harry M. Reifsteck, rural Urbana, Illinois. Her farm home is on the Illinois experimental line and she explains how she uses electrical appliances (range, refrigerator, washing machine, others). "It seems to me that God meant for all of us to live in the country and with modern conveniences it is certainly ideal."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24859
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Bulletin No. 10, page 2., Reports results of survey among 73 county farm bureaus. Findings suggest that 7-10 percent of the rural population of the state have installed receiving sets.
Brunner, Edmund de Schweinitz (author / Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University) and Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1935
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 40 Document Number: B04631
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In: Radio and the farmer and a symposium on the relation of radio to rural life. New York : The Radio Institute of the Audible Arts, 1935. p. 5-10
USA: Radio Institute of the Audible Arts, New York, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16947
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Report of a symposium on the relation of radio to rural life. 67 pages., Summarizes points brought out at the symposium attended by heads of agricultural colleges, executives of farm groups, editors of agricultural publications, members of State Departments of Agriculture and State Extension Services, legislators and other rural leaders. Also summarizes agricultural radio programs broadcast by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, its state extension services and the land-grant colleges in various states. Introductory paper by Brunner, editor of the publication.
