Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22473
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, July 1, 1917 - Jan 1, 1918, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 2, University of Illinois Archives., Conference of the Tractor and Thresher Manufacturers Department of the National Implement and Vehicle Association and the Agricultural Publishers Association, Hotel LaSalle, Chicago, Illinois, December 4, 1917. 22 pages., Tractor manufacturers urging farm publications to promote use of tractors among farm readers.
Periodical is called to testify in a Senate hearing that involved the so-called sisal trust or fibre monopoly "which has recently sent upward the cost of the raw material from which binding twine is made." Farm Implement News "has been conducting a vigorous campaign against the manipulations of the monopoly…"
Findings suggested that published reports focused on events and circumstances, but "did not provide information on injury prevention or the advantages of also coverage of the social and psychosocial long-term consequences of accidents."
