At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, a farm equipment marketer's views about the value of exhibits at such events and the features of successful exhibits. Example: "To my mind there is only one way to make a successful exhibit, and that is to have your machinery moving."
Periodical is called to testify in a Senate hearing that involved the so-called sisal trust or fibre monopoly "which has recently sent upward the cost of the raw material from which binding twine is made." Farm Implement News "has been conducting a vigorous campaign against the manipulations of the monopoly…"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22473
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Record, July 1, 1917 - Jan 1, 1918, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 2, University of Illinois Archives., Conference of the Tractor and Thresher Manufacturers Department of the National Implement and Vehicle Association and the Agricultural Publishers Association, Hotel LaSalle, Chicago, Illinois, December 4, 1917. 22 pages., Tractor manufacturers urging farm publications to promote use of tractors among farm readers.
Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, "The advertising columns of Farm Papers are full to overflowing. Never in the history of the business has there been so much Farm Machinery advertising carried."
