Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35782
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"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 3 pages., Examines problems facing the agricultural press and the publishers, editors and journalists working in it.
Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Representative of a lumber association reports: "It appeared to me that there was an organized effort being made in the farm papers to foster an attitude of suspicion and distrust between the farmer and the small town merchant who sought the farm trade." Issue involves role of mail-order marketing of farm supplies in competition with local businesses.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36839
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 11, Special Bulletin No. 80. 5 pages., "We come to this annual meeting after finishing up a fiscal year that constitutes probably the most difficult period in the history of our organization."
"If there ever was a time when the agricultural field should be cleaned up, and weeded down to those papers that are legitimately serving the interests of better agricultural conditions, that time is now." Author urges media buyers to be more selective.
Describes emphasis of Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, on encouraging employees to follow the healthy living, home gardening and other practices emphasized in Rodale periodicals.
