Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Survey by the National Farm Radio Council of Chicago identifies listening patterns and information preferences of farm listeners. The largest farm audience is listening at 8:30 p.m. A little more than 60 percent of the farm audience is listening at noon. Describes the types of agriculture news/topics desired.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 2 pages., Biographical piece about Cyrus H.K. Curtis, chairman of the board of Curtis Publishing Company. Country Gentleman was among the periodicals published by Curtis. Earlier in his career he founded the Tribune and Farmer. "It was from this publication that the Ladies' Home Journal sprang."
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Senator Arthur Capper suggests that farmers are getting more than anybody from the radio. Cites the new USDA National Farm Radio School as an example.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 2 pages., Article tracks developments, including the judge's denial of an accusation in American Agriculturist that he took part in the promotion of a worthless stock involving Electric Gas Company of America.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 2 pages., "The campaign for the preservation of our birds which is reaching the farmers and the children in the country is being carred on in the cheaper farm papers which have a large circulation." Item also cites a bird club formed by Farm Journal magazine for boys and girls.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Brief item explains that the war industries board has ordered a 15 percent reduction in the consumption of print paper by agricultural periodicals.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Surveys by county agents suggest that numbers of radio sets on farms in the U.S. had grown from 145,000 in 1923 to 365,000 in 1924 and 553,000 in 1925. A survey in1923 shows that the average price of the manufactured sets on farms was $175.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Charles Stengle, former U.S. representative in New York, becomes associate editor of National Farm News, a weekly farm paper published in Washington, D.C.
