Features a cooperative program through which the Arkansas Extension Service distributes farming information in the form of stuffers that accompany mailings from banks.
Brief summary of comments prepared by Andrew W. Hopkins, University of Wisconsin, for the 1931 AAACE meeting, Corvallis, Oregon. Urges the license and maintenance of educational stations entirely independent of commercial control or direction. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
Survey report at annual AAACE meeting. "About 40 per cent of the county extension agents now furnish extension information to their local newspapers regularly, only a very few altogether neglecting to do so, but there is a distinct need for editorial training for agents." Among the training means proposed: journalism courses for prospective agents while in college, state news-writing training meetings held by the college editor for county agents, correspondence courses in news writing, and bulletins on news writing. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
Author emphasizes intellectual curiosity as a striking characteristic of the effective agricultural college editor. Among other cited credentials: agricultural college education, newspaper training and practical farm experience.
Reports salaries of nine editors and six assistant editors that responded to an AAACE request for such information. Editors: range $3,500-$2,000. Mean $2,739.. Assistant editors: range $2,400-$1,200. Mean $1,850.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D11531
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5 pages., Retrieved April 4, 2020, from the Campus Explorer website., Identified selected agricultural communications and journalism education programs at U.S. colleges and universities.
Summarizes a presentation by Lowell Treaster, director of public relations at Michigan State College, at the recent AAACE conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
"A newspaper mat service now in its third year of use by the Missouri Agricultural Extension Service is believed by the author to be one of the best informational mediums used by the state."
Reports three experiences in which Georgia State College of Agriculture contracted with commercial firms to provide information for paid advertisements and accompanying news releases to newspapers.
Brief summary of a talk by C.E. Randall, editor, U.S. Forest Service, at 1931 AAACE convention, Corvallis, Oregon. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
