USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08964
Notes:
Page 24 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Summary of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 106, contribution from Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington. 1929. 48 pages.
Crile, L. (author), Reist, H.N. (author), and Tait, E.B. (author)
Format:
Research summary
Publication Date:
1955
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08632
Notes:
Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. U.S. Federal Extension Service, Washington, D.C. Extension Service Circular 496. 32 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28829
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Bulletin 11., Proceedings of the Farm-Electrical Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 12-13, 1926. Theme: "What about rural electrification?" Includes an article by Mrs. Harry M. Reifsteck, rural Urbana, Illinois. Her farm home is on the Illinois experimental line and she explains how she uses electrical appliances (range, refrigerator, washing machine, others). "It seems to me that God meant for all of us to live in the country and with modern conveniences it is certainly ideal."
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.
