Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Notes formation of the Farm Paper Bloc by 60 editors of agricultural publications attending a national agricdultural conference. Herbert Myrick of Springfield, Massachusetts, was cited as source.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., "Educational programs of the Department of Agriculture were carried to millions of farm listeners in their homes during the last year by 149 broadcasting stations cooperating with the department. The stations devoted in the aggregate more than 1,000 hours each month to broadcasting information from the department."
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., U.S. Court of Appeals ordered the Midwest Farm Paper Unit, Inc., to pay $37,000 in damages for having acquired a substantial monopoly of the advertising in that type of publication, and that competition was destroyed.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Surveys by county agents suggest that numbers of farms equipped with radios in the U.S. grew from 145,000 in 1923 to 365,000 in 1924 to 550,000 in 1925. Farmers were found to tune in not so much for grand opera or baseball or political speecheds as for weather and market reports.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Letter to the editor doubts the accuracy of a poll announced in the Farm Journal magazine indicating that Governor Landon was gaining throughout the West. Reason: Farm Journal is owned by Joseph N. Pew, Jr., vice president of the Sun Oil Company. "The Pew family has been a heavy contributor to the Liberty League and Mr. Pew himself was shown to have contributed at least $2,000 to the Farmers Independence Council."
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., National School of the Air to open October first - courses include lectures on important phases of farming industry.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Item, lacking attribution, describes the Breeder's Gazette as one of the best edited and most interesting farm papers published.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Describes success of a 1 1/2-year advertising campaign by an auto tire manufacturer. Emphasizes value of the auto for bringing "produce nearer to a larger market."
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., A representative of the Federal Radio Commission, Sam Pickard, argues that the farmer and the small town listeners are entitled to good radio.
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.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., USDA reports estimates of more than 1 million receiving sets now in regular use on farms. Article describes listener acceptance of the new medium. Also describes response to the USDA experimental radio market news service announced on December 21, 1920, and developed thereafter.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., American Newspaper Publishers Association protests efforts by government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to control advertising content inappropriately. Article cites an example: "A 1933 order by the animal industry bureau of the Agriculture Department deleting from Jones's dairy farm advertising a jingle, 'Most little pigs to to market, The best little pigs go to Jones's,' on the grounds that it was misleading."
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 2 pages., Report of a nationwide survey among farm residents by the National Farm Radio Council. Identifies kinds of programs valued by listeners. Article also describes the role and organization of the Council.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., British post office offers special telephone service to rural residents who form a telephone exchange. Article describes advantages to the farm, in terms of various kinds of iuseful nformation available to farmers.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Cites a reader who emphasizes the value of weather reports and forecasts to farmers. "Since the advent of the rural delivery, all up-to-date farmers get a daily paper, and its value can be made immeasurably greater by a careful study of the weather report."
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Reports results of a survey by WLS Radio, Chicago, showing weather reports were the first choice of farm listeners.
