Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02921
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Online from Print Magazine. 6 pages., Selection of illustrations and advertisements from 1916 and perhaps other unidentified years in the Rural New Yorker farm periodical.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09636
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Delmar Hatesohl Collection, Pages 44-45 from a incomplete article in a publication identified with the Kansas State Board of Agriculture., Describes the merger of two of largest publishing firms in the Midwest on February 1, 1957. Involved newspapers, broadcast stations, agricultural periodicals, and printing services.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11021
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Online via Accelerating Innovation in Technology Data and Media. 2 pages., Summarizes results of a survey among nearly 3,000 U.S. owners of ranches and farmers.
1 page., Online from March 6, 2020, issue of the periodical., Tribute to a long-time agricultural journalist, written by an editorial associate at the Delta Farm Press magazine.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25963
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Via India eNews. 2 pages., Features a special interest of Shree Padre, founder-editor of the "Adike Patrike" magazine "by, of and for" farmers in the Kannada language.
Leith, Terri (author) and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
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Article
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26026
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Via Perspectives On Line. 6 pages., Reports on dedication of the Butler Communication Services Building at the North Carolina State University. The building is named for the Butlers, editors/publishers of Progressive Farmer magazine.
Ford, D'Lyn (author) and College of Agriculture and Home Economics, New Mexico State University.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26031
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Sam Steel Society. 2 pages., Features Ralph Reynolds, long-time editor of the Furrow Magazine (Deere and Company) and alumnus of New Mexico State University.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26069
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From Centre for Alternative Agricultural Media, Karnataka, India, via www.southnexus.com. 2 pages., Within a question-answer format, author offers his idea on farmers and the media.
Moynihan, Maria (author) and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists
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Article
Publication Date:
2007-10
Published:
Ireland
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: C26524
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3 pages., The Outstanding Irish Young Journalist for 2006 explains how she spotted, planned and wrote what became an honoured article about the diversity of rural families in Irish societies.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27885
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5 pages., Biographical information about Arthur C. Page, long-time farm broadcaster at Radio Station WLS, Chicago, Illinois. One of the two sections represents information presented after his death at the occasion of his induction into the NAFB Hall of Fame in 1993. The other section about him and his family is from the 1952 issue of the WLS-Prairie Farmer Family Album.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28831
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Special Bulletin 83. 2 pages., Concerns an early Farm Bureau publication with national circulation. Article indicates that under a cooperative agreement the periodical will carry advertisements in combination with farm papers. "Not a competitor."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28852
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Agricultural Publishers Association records, UI Archives., Bulletin 232, page 3., Urges excluding from farm papers copy that attacks dealers, advertisers selling direct or through dealers, or reflecting unfairly upon a competitor in business.
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association.
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Article
Publication Date:
1922-06-27
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28854
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Special Bulletin. 8 pages., Describes a proposed campaign of publicity and advertising to promote marketers to advertise in farm periodicals.
Hayden, Victor F. (author / Executive Secretary, APA) and Agricultural Publishers Association.
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Article
Publication Date:
1925-12-10
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28857
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Letter to APA members. 1 page., Letter to agricultural publishers announcing that an APA-initiated proposal to establish a national, non-legal holiday, "Agriculture Day," had been endorsed by the American Farm Bureau Federation. Wording of the resolution included.
Hayden, Victor F. (author / Executive Secretary, APA) and Agricultural Publishers Association.
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Article
Publication Date:
1925-08-22
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28858
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., APA Bulletin 34, page 2.., Author notes the growing prospects of advertising by marketers of radios among farm residents.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36814
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 10, On page 3 of APA "Farm Conditions" bulletin., Cites a Kansas State Agricultural College professor who advocates using farm papers as supplementary texts in courses taught by high schools and agricultural colleges.
Corbin, Ed. F. (author / Vice President, Meredith Publishing Company) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
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Article
Publication Date:
1931-11-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36829
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 11, Page 1 of Bulletin No. 45-B., Message of encouragement to personnel of Meredith, publisher of Successful Farming, in the face of economic hardship.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36830
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 11, Page 1 of Bulletin No. 47-B., APA responds to criticism about the value and public expense of rural free delivery of mail..
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36840
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 11, Bulletin No. 32-B. 1 page., Testimony to the farm press by an unidentified government official.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22513
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin No. 46, page 3., Publisher expresses concern about Ditto Egg Tablets, claimed to be an egg laying tonic the value to which more than 100,000 poultry producers testify. Urges farm papers to scrutinize advertising copy carefully.
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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22515
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin No. 33, p. 2, Reports on complaints from seed marketers about state agriculture department publications which offer free advertising service. Cited as inappropriate use of taxpayer money.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22516
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin No. 33, p. 4, Cites a publisher urging farm paper publishers to "be very careful in handling the advertising of any concern connected with radio because there are so many unreliable machines, apparatus, in fact, individuals, that it would be a very easy matter to quite completely kill the radio business as far as farmers are concerned." Inferior sets being sold.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22518
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Bulletin 26, pp. 2-3., Cites a letter from the chairman of the Agricultural Press Committee of the American Association of Advertising Agencies noting that advertising agencies "do not hold themselves alert to the agricultural paper idea." Too much focus on markets in cities, too little on those in county seat towns in agricultural districts. Cites the low cost of farm paper advertising and urges advertising agencies to open-mindedly work with farm publishers to develop business.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22519
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association, Special Bulletin, 2 pages., Discusses the current capability of farm papers to handle color advertisements.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22520
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association. Article for Judicious Advertising. 2 pages., Refers to market information now available to farmers via radio and describes the positive financial condition of farmers. Urges readers to advertise to farmers through the agricultural press.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22521
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Agricultural Publishers Association. Special Bulletin. 2 pages., Reports on influence of the farm press in identifying the source of an anonymous survey designed to gain publicity and make misstatements against other tractor manufacturers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22549
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Online from indiatogether.org. 5 pages., Reports on a successful experiment of "farmers penning for their fellowmen" through a farm periodical, Adike Pathrike.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23740
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 10 pages., "Have district editions created a public sphere? Or have they merely created a daily bulletin board which people read to see if their names are mentioned?"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23741
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 9 pages., "The indiscriminate nature of local news does not encourage purposeful reporting on the development needs of local areas, and their populations."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24170
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International Journalists' Network. 1 page., Describes the origination of Sadiq News, a newsletter that covers freedom of expression issues for rural Pakistan journalists.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24398
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Global News Wire, Financial Times Information via LexisNexis Academic. 2 pages., Describes financial performance and business plans of Rural Press, Australia-based media firm with major agricultural publishing interests in the U.S.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24839
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Bulletin No. 6, page 4., Combined circulation for 76 general farm papers in the U.S. is reported for 1922 as about 12 million copies and commercial advertising billing about $16,700,000.
Campbell, W.G. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
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Article
Publication Date:
1923-03-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24841
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Special Bulletin No. 21, pages 1-5., Defends objection to the practice of inducing dealers to write advertisers, suggesting the use of publications in territory covered by dealer.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24849
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Bulletin No. 32, page 2., Reports having heard to date of only three farm papers giving such service: Farm and Home, Northwest Farmstead and Cappers Farm Papers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24853
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Special Bulletin No. 39, 2 pages., Discusses the question, in terms of improving advertisers' preference for farm papers, and lists farm papers with their page and column sizes.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24854
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Special Bulletin No. 38, 3 pages., Reports from 19 farm paper publishers who replied to a questionnaire about the extent to which they are carrying radio advertising and conducting a radio page or column. Eighteen were carrying radio advertising.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24855
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Special Bulletin No. 37, 3 pages., Findings of surveys among farm publishers and advertising managers of Chicago department stores. Includes reports of objections raised by department stores about advertising in farm papers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24860
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Bulletin No. 3, page 3., Advertisement in the Washington Farmer and Oregon Farmer is said to be the largest single advertisement ever placed in an agricultural publication on the Pacific Coast, and among the largest in the entire country.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24862
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Bulletin No. 1, page 2., "The value of farm papers from many angles has been featured. But it may be news to know that a farm paper actually saved the life of Mrs. Frank Rosebough, Bridgeport, New York. Mrs. Rosebough was reading her paper when a disgruntled hired man fired a shotgun through the window at her husband. The charge missed the latter and would have killed Mrs. Rosebough except that the farm paper which was spread before her face broke the force of the shot."
Campbell, William G. (author / General Manager, Indiana Farmers Guide) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
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Article
Publication Date:
1924-06-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24864
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Special Bulletin No. 33, 5 pages., Published address before a Chicago business organization. Emphasizes the development and potentials of rural interests and the role of farm papers in reaching the entire farm market.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24869
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Special Bulletin No. 15. 2 pages., Court affirms recovery of dues and assessments due APA from the Homestead Company for memberships held in the Association.
Hayden, Victor F. (author / Executive Secretary, Agricultural Publishers Association) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
1924-10-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24892
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Special Bulletin No. 69. 3 pages., Reports 1923 lineage data from 50 farm papers and 28 magazines. Chart shows advertising lineage for each of 24 leading sources of farm paper advertising. These categories provided advertising revenue that totaled $12,070,000. Pie charts also show farm paper space as a share of total advertising in 9 categories (e.g., passenger cars, building materials).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24894
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Special Bulletin No. 59. 3 pages., APA replies to question from an advertising agency about the relative merits of using state or national farm papers - or using newspapers in various trading centers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24900
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Bulletin No. 4. Page 2., The Modern Business Text of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, a course in business that is studied by thousands of people, carries a complimentary reference to farm papers for taking "an advanced stand for honest advertising."
Hayden, Victor F. (author / Executive Secretary, Agricultural Publishers Association) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
1925-03-25
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24904
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Special Bulletin No. 30. 3 pages., Urges publishers to examine all advertising copy and ask for revisions when it comes in conflict with the accepted standards of farm papers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24905
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Special Bulletin No. 18. 3 pages., Calls attention to errors of description creeping into the advertising of some firms selling clothing, particularly women's clothing, by mail. Confirms standards used by the Vigilance Committee.
