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Show Farmers Great Users of Radio, Report Discloses Radio for farm use could receive no better recommendation than the statistics sta-tistics found in the annual report of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. He tells that a survey made by county agents in 1923 indicated that there were about 145,000 radio sets on farms throughout the country. In 1924 the estimated number of sets jumped to 305,000 and in 1925 to 553,000. Radio sots per county increased from 51 in 1923 to 204 in 1925, an increase in-crease of 300 per cent. What more evidence could one wish to prove that farm folks appreciate the buoadcast-ing buoadcast-ing service now available? Twenty-four Twenty-four agricultural colleges maintain radio broadcasting stations. They cooperate co-operate with the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture in broadcasting broadcast-ing weather, crops and market reports. re-ports. Several hundred stations regularly reg-ularly obtain Information for broadcasting broad-casting from the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture. |