Patton, M.Q. (author / Agricultural Extension Service and Office of International Agricultural Programs, Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul) and Agricultural Extension Service and Office of International Agricultural Programs, Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 58 Document Number: C01684
Dorward, Andrew R. (author), Rehman, T. (author), and University of Reading, Reading, Great Britain, Dept of Agriculture and Horticulture; University of Reading, Reading, Great Britain, Dept of Agriculture and Horticulture
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 52 Document Number: C00595
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.
