Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Surveys by county agents suggest that numbers of farms equipped with radios in the U.S. grew from 145,000 in 1923 to 365,000 in 1924 to 550,000 in 1925. Farmers were found to tune in not so much for grand opera or baseball or political speecheds as for weather and market reports.
Jackson, C.W. (author) and Bannister, Claire (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1946
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 33 Document Number: B03588
Notes:
Mimeographed, 1946. 15 p. Class paper for Agricultural Education 614. Texas Agriculture College Extension, College Station. Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 39 Document Number: B04370
Notes:
Washington D.C. : United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1946. 133 p. Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36786
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 8, 15 pages., Presentation by APA encouraging radio stations to advertise their programs in farm papers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 14 Document Number: B01746
Notes:
#1388, Harold Swanson Collection. Eugene A. Kroupa Collection., Thesis for master of science in agricultural journalism, Agricultural Journalism Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 78 pages.
National Association of Farm Broadcasters Archives, University of Illinois. NAFB Publications Series No. 8/3/88. Box No. 3. Contact http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ or Documentation Center
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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24859
Notes:
Bulletin No. 10, page 2., Reports results of survey among 73 county farm bureaus. Findings suggest that 7-10 percent of the rural population of the state have installed receiving sets.
Jaccard, C.R. (author) and Sabrosky, L.K. (author)
Format:
Research summary
Publication Date:
1949
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08604
Notes:
Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of a research report. Kansas State College Agricultural Extension, Manhattan. 20 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: B00123
Notes:
AgComm Teaching, Urbana, IL: Extension Editorial Office, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. 14 pp. (Agricultural Communications Research Report 19)
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: C16042
Notes:
8 p., University of Oklahoma Radio Conference, Norman, Oklanhoma, February 27, 1948, Talk by Ray Heinen, program director, KSIB, Creston, Iowa, 1000 watt daylight station, on panel discussion of "The Day's Program" at the University of Oklahoma Radio Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, February 27, 1948.
USA: Radio Institute of the Audible Arts, New York, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16947
Notes:
Report of a symposium on the relation of radio to rural life. 67 pages., Summarizes points brought out at the symposium attended by heads of agricultural colleges, executives of farm groups, editors of agricultural publications, members of State Departments of Agriculture and State Extension Services, legislators and other rural leaders. Also summarizes agricultural radio programs broadcast by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, its state extension services and the land-grant colleges in various states. Introductory paper by Brunner, editor of the publication.
Brunner, Edmund de Schweinitz (author / Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University) and Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1935
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 40 Document Number: B04631
Notes:
In: Radio and the farmer and a symposium on the relation of radio to rural life. New York : The Radio Institute of the Audible Arts, 1935. p. 5-10
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: B02984
Notes:
#950, Harold Swanson Collection. Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics, 1948. 12 p. (Extension Service Circular No. 453). Extension Circular 453
Bertrand, Alvin L. (author) and Hitt, H.L. (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1949
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: B00156
Notes:
AgComm Teaching. Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Baton Rouge, LA: Agricultural Experiment Station, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. 51pp. (Louisiana Bulletin No. 440)
Jolliffe, Lee (author), Smethers, J. Steven (author), and Smethers: School of Journalism and Broadcasting, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; Jolliffe: University of Missouri Journalism School, columbia, MO
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06325
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, 1992. 28 p. Speech presented at the 1992 Convention of the Radio-Television Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication; Montreal, Canada
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 10 Document Number: B01391
Notes:
AgComm Teaching, St. Paul, Minnesota: Agricultural Extension Service, University of Minnesota, 22pp. Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1941-05-22
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36879
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 15, Special Bulletin No. 16. 2 pages., Summarizes results of a study by the Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting.
Crile, Lucinda (author / U.S. Department of Agriculture) and U.S. Department of Agriculture
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1949
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16 Document Number: B01987
Notes:
#949, Harold Swanson Collection. Review of Extension Research 1946/47-1956, Extension Service Circular 506, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Revised ed. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics, 1949. 15 p. (Extension Service Circular 457).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08603
Notes:
Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of a thesis for the master of education degree, Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College, Fort Collins. 55 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29540
Notes:
Via the Don Snowden Program for Development Communication. 5 pages., Features the National Farm Radio Program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08620
Notes:
Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of a research report. Kansas State College, Agriculture Extension, Manhattan. 19 pages.
Report of a roundtable conference in connection with the First National Conference on Educational Broadcasting, Washington, D.C., December 10, 1937. Includes case experiences in various states.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: C28590
Notes:
Via online site. 17 pages of the report retrieved., Section about "Health and Education" includes 11-country analysis of the influence of radio and television programming on health knowledge and behavior in rural households.
National Association of Farm Broadcasters Archives, University of Illinois. NAFB Publications Series No. 8/3/88. Box No. 3. Contact http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ or Documentation Center
USA: University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28672
Notes:
70 pages, "This book is intended as a critique of the field of development communication and in this, anthropology has a key role to play." Author examines the uses of radio for development, the impact on oral culture and the use of radio by indigenous people in Ecuator and miners in Bolivia.
