Analysis of this agricultural leader's views suggests Bailey sought "not to develop a more efficient, productive, and profitable agriculture, but to advance the larger cultural ideals of a 'self-sustaining' agriculture and personal happiness."
Looks into the evolution of the Circle to provide men and women in rural Midwestern towns an opportunity for college education via correspondence course of systematic home study from 1878 to 1900. Birth and development of CLSC with other social movements; social consequences of the CLSC's introduction; course offerings; chief obstacles
AgComm teaching; Paper presented at the Agricultural History Symposium on Science and Technology in Agriculture; 1979; Kansas State University, Manhattan. Delmar Hatesohl Collection., Tracks the information sources used by early agricultural journalists, leading to a contemporary diffusion approach in which farm readers were no longer viewed as "collaborators in agricultural study." They "were to be consumers of information vended by experts." (p. 37)
Fusonie, Alan (author), Hauser, William (author), and Fusonie: Historian and Chief of Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD; Hauser: Visual Information Specialist in Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05388
