Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36827
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 11, Special Bulletin No. 82. 2 pages., Shows combined circulation, line rates and millini rates of 35 farm papers, 1921-1930. Circulation grew from 7,189,905 in 1921 to 11,931,921 in 1930. Line rate rose from $48.34 in 1921 to $66.01 in 1930. Milline rate is line rate divided by circulation and multiplied by one million.
Ashby, Bruce (author / Advertising Manager, General Foods Corporation) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1931-06-25
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36822
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 10, Special Bulletin No. 50. 6 pages., Delivered at the departmental session, Agricultural Publishers Association, New York City, New York, June 16, 1931.
Bohen, Fred (author / President, APA) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois
Format:
Letter
Publication Date:
1929-12-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36810
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 9, Special Bulletin No. 69. 2 pages., Optimistic letter from APA president to the president of an advertising agency in New York City about economic conditions in rural America.
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1933-08-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36843
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 12, Special Bulletin No. 16. 3 pages., Regarding participation of APA in the newly created Periodical Publishers Institute and the agenda it is to undertake.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Brief item explains that the war industries board has ordered a 15 percent reduction in the consumption of print paper by agricultural periodicals.
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1940-10-16
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36875
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 14, Pages 9-10 in Annual Report of the Executive Secretary for the Period Ending September 30, 1940., Emphasis on the practice of criticizing competitors.
Brien, John P. (author) and Evans, James F. (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1980-02
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 50 Document Number: C00377
Notes:
Agcomm Teaching, Sydney, Australia : University of Sydney, Department of Agricultural Economics, 1980. 32 p. (Agricultural Extension and Communication Paper No. 1)
4 pages, "Charlotte Empey is a unique figure in Canadian magazines. She's the editor and publisher of two women's books. But with all her power, can she bring back journalistic credibility to Homemakers?"
Online from publication. 3 pages., Article features experiences and perspectives of crime novel writer Jeff Gould, a former reporter for the Linder Farm Network in Minnesota.
Describes how Cyrus Curtis bought Country Gentleman magazine in 1911 and it became "the dominant farm publication of the 1920s." The magazine "took the nineteenth-century symbol of the yeoman farmer and recast it in terms of consumption. In doing so, it created an idealistic image of a new class of consumers, an image that urban advertisers easily understood and willingly bought." CG had 2.4 million subscribers when it was sold to Farm Journal and Town Journal in 1955.
Describes how the editor of a rural Montana weekly chose not to report on the rebellion of a local group of anti-government militants, beyond running official press releases from the Department of Justice.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36820
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 10, Special Bulletin No. 45. 6 pages., Delivered at the departmental session of the Agricultural Publishers Association in Washington, D.C., May 20, 1930.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22487
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jul 1, 1920 - Jan1, 1921, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 3, University of Illinois Archives., Bulletin No. 182, page 2, Note of farewell after White served for five-plus years as managing director of the Association.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25910
Notes:
Posted at www.thehoot.org > "Grassroots media" section, Women's Feature Service via Media South Asia. 3 pages., Describes the development and pioneering role of a rural magazine for which rural women handle all the reporting, writing, editing, layout, artwork, photography and circulation.
