Show 4 go e farm radio making rapid growth there arc ara nearly radio sets seta on farms in the united states prepared by the ha untied united statta states department of 0 agriculture there are nearly radio sets en u farms tit in the united states estates the department part ment of agriculture estimates in a report on the growth of barta arm radio during curing the tha past five years tit in some states the department says there are radio sets on 25 to 40 per pei cent ent of all farms estimates made by tile the department in 1923 1023 showed acts sets in uso use on farms at that time sets seta la in 1024 and sets early in increased power and improved broadcasting together with better receiving ceiling sets the department believes will do much to aid in establishing the permanency of the use of radio tor for the benefit of agriculture one station alone in a period of three months broadcasting of market ind weather reports received more floan r n letters of commendation from farmers country banks shippers of live stock block and small merchants in the towns in 12 agricultural ngit cultural states surrounding the station interference among stations may gradually be eliminated the department believes as many of the less active stations are being discontinued and technical improvements improvement are being made lc in both broadcasting and receiving equipment or of 1458 radio rad 0 stations of all sizes licensed to br broadcast adrast since broadcasting began on only y aj were active on january 1 this year operative cooperative co arrangements the department has hag made co operative arrangements arrange menta with more than stations for broadcasting official market news gathered by department rep resent attres in leading shipping and consuming areas since the first of the year the department lias made arrangements range ments about GO stations to broadcast on a regular schedule four additional services dealing with genial general agricultural information literally hundreds of stations have requested the privilege of 0 handling the government reports but many of the requests brave had to be refused the department says because the stations are remote from the departments market marbet news branch offices when the alie experimental radio market news service was announced on december 21 1020 the report states It those liose in the department of agriculture who were directing tile new ac hardly anticipated tho the wonderful possibilities of radio broadcasting as we now know it A A laboratory transmitter at the united states bureau of standards on a meter wave length a few enthusiastic amateurs amateur within a hundal hund al miles of washington and a 5 p m schedule of about WO words by radio telegraph composing what was culled called the radio market gram constituted tile the elements of the experiment the practical results of this first experiment could hardly be called conclusive clu sive but they gave encouragement to tn those in charge of it to push on in the quest of more rind more evidence on april 7 1921 nn an announcement was made that arrangements lind find been completed with the nir air null mall radio service of the post department to tran transmit by wireless market reports several times a day front from post ollace stations at washington D C le fonte pa st louis mo and omaha neb amateurs were enlisted assuming tin an effective radius of audibility dibi lity of miles about each station licensed in the areas covered were ft ere enlisted to copy the lie reports and to furnish them to shippers associations county agents state bureaus of markets maik ets farm fann bureaus and other agricultural agencies banks newspapers and local telephone exchanges cli angea A number of licensed operators offered to copy the reports by january 3 2 1922 2 tile market reports were being relayed related and broadcast by radio telegraph from seven post office stations iu in i A chain across the country buting 1021 reports were furnished to three of 0 the then very few radio telephone broadcasting stations tat lons since aben th boa ba grown by laabs and bounds until now there la Is practically no agricultural community in the country that Is without official market reports on agricultural commodities modi ties well established schedules of weather crop and market reports are broa broadcast denst from more than stations in nil all parts of tile country farmers of necessity the department ment says have bought mainly high priced sets capable of getting distant stations the average cost of radio sets bets on more than 1000 farms widely scattered over the country in 1023 was estimated estimate by the department at better ond and more easily operated equipment can bo be bought now for half this amount the department says an authentic list of hi broadcasting stations the country over that broadcast market and crop reports has been prepared by tile the department for free distribution requests for the list should bo mailed to the hureau bureau of agricultural united states department of agriculture washington D 0 |