Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24849
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Bulletin No. 32, page 2., Reports having heard to date of only three farm papers giving such service: Farm and Home, Northwest Farmstead and Cappers Farm Papers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24854
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Special Bulletin No. 38, 3 pages., Reports from 19 farm paper publishers who replied to a questionnaire about the extent to which they are carrying radio advertising and conducting a radio page or column. Eighteen were carrying radio advertising.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24859
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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.
National Association of Farm Broadcasters Archives, University of Illinois. NAFB Publications Series No. 8/3/90. Box No. 3. Contact http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ or Documentation Center, Past Presidents, 1944-85. 5 p.
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.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Surveys by county agents suggest that numbers of radio sets on farms in the U.S. had grown from 145,000 in 1923 to 365,000 in 1924 and 553,000 in 1925. A survey in1923 shows that the average price of the manufactured sets on farms was $175.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28829
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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."
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.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 2 pages., Report of a nationwide survey among farm residents by the National Farm Radio Council. Identifies kinds of programs valued by listeners. Article also describes the role and organization of the Council.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Survey by the National Farm Radio Council of Chicago identifies listening patterns and information preferences of farm listeners. The largest farm audience is listening at 8:30 p.m. A little more than 60 percent of the farm audience is listening at noon. Describes the types of agriculture news/topics desired.
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1926-04-17
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36774
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 7, Bulletin No. 16. 1 page., Chicago Livestock Exchange has asked the support of the state supreme court in its claim to control the broadcasting by radio of livestock quotations.
Radio program announcements have been appearing in various forms - bulletin, press release and pamphlet - from Kansas, Oregon, Michigan, South Dakota and Nebraska. Brief sketches of extension radio activities.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers., "The National Broadcasting Company of 195 Broadway awaits only the opening of its Chicago studios in the Fall to institute an extensive service for farm use." Mentions farm material broadcast earlier in the year on KFKX, Hastings, Nebraska. Also mentions KDKA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36786
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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.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., "Educational programs of the Department of Agriculture were carried to millions of farm listeners in their homes during the last year by 149 broadcasting stations cooperating with the department. The stations devoted in the aggregate more than 1,000 hours each month to broadcasting information from the department."
The report notes that many college operated radio stations have experienced restricted operations during the past year. "Those institutions fortunate enough to have a satisfactory place in the air are furnishing a valuable service and should safeguard their present allotments by sound program development. Commercial stations offer a broad and increasing opportunity for the college information services to reach thousands of their people through a medium so important in the present day scheme of things as to demand careful consideration."
Brief summary of a presentation by R.H. Lamb, Western Program Director, U.S. Department of Agriculture, at the 1931 AAACE meeting, Corvallis, Oregon. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
Brief summary of a talk by Paul V. Maris, director, Oregon Extension Service, at the 1931 AAACE meeting in Corvallis, Oregon. Reported on efforts to raise money for the Oregon college station. "I feel that the conclusion is warranted, therefore, that the needs of the Land Grant Colleges from the standpoint of rendering a localized service cannot be met by commercial stations." American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
Brief summary of a presentation by W.L. Kadderly, program director, Radio Station KOAC, Oregon Agricultural College, at the 1931 AAACE meeting, Corvallis, Oregon. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
Brief summary of a presentation by Alan Dailey, radio extension specialist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, at the 1931 AAACE meeting, Corvallis, Oregon. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
"Five rural audiences in Ohio, located in different counties, only a few weeks ago listened to a radio talk by P.B. Zumbro, extension poultry specialist at Ohio State University, and simultaneously viewed a series of pictures projected on a screen from a film strip illustrating the talk. The idea originated with Rensselaer Sill, assistant editor and radio specialist, who worked out the arrangements for the trial which proved most successful. The county agents arranged for the local meetings, introduced the program, and led the discussions."
Report on efforts at the University of Arkansas to help people understand why the University is of special value to the entire population of the state. Agricultural editor Kenneth B. Roy concedes that some extension people might call this "propaganda." However, he adds, "we find in Arkansas that the general public becomes interested in Extension work when the story of its activities, programs and results is effectively told."
Results of a survey among local leaders in New Hampshire leads authors to conclude: "It seems safe to conclude, therefore, that radio is proving itself an effective extension tool and deserves careful consideration as to further development."
McCarty, H.B. (author / Program Director, WHA, Wisconsin State Station)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1934
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17268
Notes:
Pages 18-23 in Tracy F. Tyler (ed.), Radio as a cultural agency. National Committee on Education by Radio, Washington, D.C. 150 pages, Presentation at a national conference on the use of radio as a cultural agency in a democracy.
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
