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., 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. 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., "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., 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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23512
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Iowa Poll, Des Moines (Iowa) Register and Tribune via http://poll.orspub.com/poll/ 1 page., Responses in a statewide survey (Iowa USA) to a question about respondents' level of confidence in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
