Editorial section of a North Carolina newspaper opposes those skeptical of having county agents spend their time furnishing news stories to newspapers. The information is considered valuable for readers, or it would not be used. "There is no dearth of matter to fill up columns."
USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08947
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Page 5 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Brief description of Bulletin 2, Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1929. 14 pages.
USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08951
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Page 7 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Brief summary of U.S. Extension Service Circular 78. 1928. 17 pages.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Senator Arthur Capper suggests that farmers are getting more than anybody from the radio. Cites the new USDA National Farm Radio School as an example.
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24899
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Bulletin No. 18. 1 page., From the house organ of an unidentified APA member: When someone stops advertising - Someone stops buying. - When someone stops buying - Someone stops selling. - When someone stops selling - Someone stops making. - When someone stops making - Someone stops earning. - When someone stops earning - Everybody stops buying.
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22483
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1920 - Jul 1, 1920, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 3, University of Illinois Archives., Agricultural Publishers Association Departmental, Associated Advertising Clubs of the World Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 8, 1920. 3 pages., Describes farm papers of the South.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22484
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1920 - Jul 1, 1920, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 3, University of Illinois Archives., Agricultural Publishers Association Departmental, Associated Advertising Clubs of the World Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 8, 1920. 2 pages., Describes farm papers of the West.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22478
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1920 - Jul 1, 1920, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 3, University of Illinois Archives., Agricultural Publishers Association Departmental, Associated Advertising Clubs of the World Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 7, 1920. 5 pages.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Cites a reader who emphasizes the value of weather reports and forecasts to farmers. "Since the advent of the rural delivery, all up-to-date farmers get a daily paper, and its value can be made immeasurably greater by a careful study of the weather report."
Appeared in the Northwestern Agriculturist, January 20, 1906., The Northwestern Agriculturist gives any farmers who keep three cows or more a free five-year subscription to the periodical if they will follow recommendations of the periodical's dairy department and give the periodical one-half of the value of the increased milk produced. Article emphasizes the economic value of good information - how "farm papers containing dairy departments make cows give milk."
