Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22514
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin No. 44, page 2., Reports inquiries from publishers about state Farm Bureau organizations that are considering publishing periodicals that sell advertising. Only one is doing so now, according to this report (Hoosier Farmer in Indiana), but others are reviewing possibilities. Author concludes: "On account of the loyal support given to the farm organization movement by farm papers generally, it would appear that farm bureau officials should not look with favor on any plan which might place farm organizations in the light of competitors to farm papers."
Describes how Cyrus Curtis bought Country Gentleman magazine in 1911 and it became "the dominant farm publication of the 1920s." The magazine "took the nineteenth-century symbol of the yeoman farmer and recast it in terms of consumption. In doing so, it created an idealistic image of a new class of consumers, an image that urban advertisers easily understood and willingly bought." CG had 2.4 million subscribers when it was sold to Farm Journal and Town Journal in 1955.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D06395
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Wallaces Farmer/Penton contribution to ACDC, November 2015., Typed manuscript. 16 chapters., Former editor and research director of Wallaces Farmer tracks the history of Wallaces Farmer, beginning with the first ancestor periodical started in 1853. Features editors, periodicals and topics addressed in coverage into 1918.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35774
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"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 3 pages., Suggests that ag magazines must respond to the new reality calling for readers to be far better served and to charge accordingly. "The force driving magazines forward will be content rather than advertising."
