Reprinted editorial from Farm, Stock and Home. Recounts the dangers of withholding advertising because a marketer does not happen to like a certain article or editorial in a paper. "If this attitude of mind becomes general and advertising is distributed to the trimmers or the silent publications the public will be under the necessity of paying something like a reasonable price for publications that dare to be alive and vital. Perhaps that would be more satisfactory all around, for if an editor must write with both eyes on the advertisers, it's a long farewell to social, economic and moral progress."
Announces formation of the Agricultural Publishers' Association by 60 publishers of agricultural papers, all members of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Burridge D. Butler, Prairie Farmer, was announced as president.
Reports that as farm magazines of national circulation restricted their circulations the U.S. Department of Agriculture encouraged members of Congress to find a way to remove the excessive burden of increased second-class postal rates from the shoulders of the farm publishers. "This branch of the government, be it realized, has been dependent upon the national farm journals to carry on some of the most important phases of its educational work."
