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."
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1933-08-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36843
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 12, Special Bulletin No. 16. 3 pages., Regarding participation of APA in the newly created Periodical Publishers Institute and the agenda it is to undertake.
An editor's criticism of news material ("blah") from government departments, colleges and state departments of agriculture. "Do you know what happens to a publication that prints this stuff in too liberal quantities? I'll tell you. They go broke in a year's time." Also expresses concern that this is "one of the most glaring forms of waste in the name of agriculture today."
Notes that farm papers, under financial strain along with their readers, are "sticking to their job of trying to help matters to mend." Says that the educational work of the colleges and experiment stations through local papers comes directly into the field formerly covered by farm papers, but "affords only a fraction of the service a live farmer wants. There is no displacing a good farm journal." Suggests that scientists should recognize the importance of the farm press in their contacts with the public.
