3 pages., Online via publisher. May issue., Author's description of his career in agricultural journalism, experiences with the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ), benefits of AAEA, and perspectives about writing.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D06392
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Wallaces Farmer/Penton contribution to ACDC, November 2015., 8 pages., Describes the Iowa Master Farmer Awards program founded by Wallaces Farmer magazine in 1926 and continuing through 2014 to honor outstanding Iowa farm families. Includes operations of the Iowa Master Farmer Foundation, which was formed in 2002.
See related dissertation: "Reading, reform and rural change: the Midwestern farm press, 1895-1920", This article argues that historians should not take agricultural newspapers as is and assume they expressed the farmer's point of view. Farm newspapers often reflected urban reform ideas, such as those involving rural school consolidation, rural churches and family farms. "Farm newspapers are better seen not as expressing the ideas of farmers, but providing a forum for reformers and farmers to debate proposed changes to country life." Research involved four midwestern farm newspapers between 1895 and 1920: Iowa Homestead; Wallaces' Farmer; Prairie Farmer; and Missouri Ruralist.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06719
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Doane Agricultural Service, St. Louis, Missouri. 13 pages., This document consists of data pages involving comparative farm periodical circulation, readership, reader-perceived usefulness and circulation x farm income, plus circulation trends (1964-1981) for selected periodicals in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06710
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Retrieved from Document in Main Stacks, 91-1-HP 85762PO, Notes from testimony before the Subcommittee on Postal Rates, U. S. House of Representative Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Ninety-first Congress, First session on H. R. 10877, Washington,D.C., June 24-December 10, 1969. Serial No. 91-19. 2 pages., Includes testimony from Earl Cawley Agricultural Publishers Association; Vern Anderson, Wallaces Farmer; Bert Lund, Publisher, The Farmer; James Hall, Publisher, American Agriculturist; and Emory Cunningham, Publisher, Progressive Farmer
Schapsmeier, Edward L. (author), Schapsmeier, Frederick H. (author), and Schapsmeier, Edward: Associate Professor of History, Illinois State University; Schapsmeier, Frederick: Associate Professor of History, Wisconsin State University, Oshkosh, WI
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Book
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1968
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04867
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Includes Preface, Table of Contents, and Introduction only, Ames, IA : The Iowa State University Press, 1968. 327 p.
USA: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10782
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Also available via the Hathi Trust Digital Library. Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Booklet prepared by the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, 89th Congress, Second Session. 59 pages., Brief biographies of 27 persons recognized for exceptional influence on agriculture. The group involves three publishers of agricultural periodicals.
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D06395
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Wallaces Farmer/Penton contribution to ACDC, November 2015., Typed manuscript. 16 chapters., Former editor and research director of Wallaces Farmer tracks the history of Wallaces Farmer, beginning with the first ancestor periodical started in 1853. Features editors, periodicals and topics addressed in coverage into 1918.
