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Show i Thousands of Farmers j Get Market by Radio ; "The radio la perhaps the greatest j boon given by science to the farmer," said George G. Koyce of the New York city olllce of the state department of agriculture and markets, speaking at a conference of extension workers from 12 Northeastern states held at Cornell university. "Science Is the handmaiden of the farmer. She Is ever passing on to liliu discoveries that lighten his labors, la-bors, add to Uie productivity of the soil, give protection to the growing crop and prolong the life of the harvest," har-vest," said Mr. Koyce. "Hut what mutters It how well soil Is tilled, the crop grown and har-' har-' vested, If It Is uot Intelligently marketed?'' mar-keted?'' he continued. "To market It, .thus, It follows that the farmer must have timely market information per- talnlng both to condition and price, i Lie should have this Information made 1 available to him at the same time as i it is to the buyer to render more effective ef-fective Ids bargaining ability. "This, tlio radio is doing. Thousands Thou-sands of farmers now 'listen in' to market reports which are going out dally from large numbers of radio broadcasting stations and are guided by theso reports in the marketing of their crops, and they make money by it." The New York state department of agriculture and markets, realizing the importance and value of timely market mar-ket Information to the farmer, is now . broadcasting dally market information informa-tion from stations WEAF, WJZ, iWNYC in New York city, from station sta-tion WGY In Schenectady, station WCAD in Canton and WGIl In Buffalo Buf-falo on the Buffalo markets. During the shipping season foe lettuce, let-tuce, radio reports are broadcast on this commodity from WHAM, Rochester, Roches-ter, 'and WGY, Schenectady. Similar reports on grapes are broadcast from WGY and WHAM during the shipping season. |