Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Letter to the editor doubts the accuracy of a poll announced in the Farm Journal magazine indicating that Governor Landon was gaining throughout the West. Reason: Farm Journal is owned by Joseph N. Pew, Jr., vice president of the Sun Oil Company. "The Pew family has been a heavy contributor to the Liberty League and Mr. Pew himself was shown to have contributed at least $2,000 to the Farmers Independence Council."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Folder: 161 Document Number: D07842
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Readership results of split-run advertisements involving Moorman's Mintrate hot feed in the April 15, 1961, issue of Wisconsin Agriculturist farm paper. Research report (four pages), with two advertisements. Example of limited control in research methodology, compromising confidence in accuracy of the results.
Evans, cited reference, The present paper briefly reviews the various methods used thus far for selecting key-communicators to show that none of these was found suitable in a similar study conducted in a multicaste village, with 94 farm families, near Delhi. The study recorded communication acts by each farmer in relation with three practices - ghana bajara, 2, 4-D and Pusa ruby tomato, at three different stages of adoption. The mean number of communication acts were taken to be the cutting scores. Scoring above the mean number in a particular innovation were regarded as key communicators, and those who did not perform a single act of key communication were designated non-communicators. (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 70 Document Number: D10762
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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/, Claude W. Gifford Collection. 3 pages., This report from the Research Department of Farm Journal magazine briefly describes results of a recent listener survey involving farm radio. Notes a matter of data presentation.
