Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11021
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Online via Accelerating Innovation in Technology Data and Media. 2 pages., Summarizes results of a survey among nearly 3,000 U.S. owners of ranches and farmers.
Pages 69-70 in Extension Circular 541, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of thesis for the master of science degree in agricultural extension education, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. 1961. 77 pages.
Trends in the mail order catalog business. Includes a brief history back to 1872 when Aaron Montgomery Ward decided to market items to midwestern farmers living miles away from available shopping. About 85 million catalogs in the mailes in 1978, representing about 8,000 companies.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08628
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Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Bulletin 21, 34 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: D10763
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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/, Claude W. Gifford Collection. 22 pages., A Farm Journal document that briefly summarizes findings from 18 surveys conducted by universities, advertising firms, farm periodicals, and a trade association between 1957 and 1963.
