Reports that as farm magazines of national circulation restricted their circulations the U.S. Department of Agriculture encouraged members of Congress to find a way to remove the excessive burden of increased second-class postal rates from the shoulders of the farm publishers. "This branch of the government, be it realized, has been dependent upon the national farm journals to carry on some of the most important phases of its educational work."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14028
Notes:
Pages 105-112 in Subhash Bhatnagar and Robert Schware (eds.), Information and communication technology in development: cases from India. Sage Publications, New Delhi, India. 2000. 230 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: D10720
Notes:
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/, 2 pages.
