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Show FARMERS TO GET NEWSJY RADIO WASHINGTON, Dee. -i. The wireless wire-less telegraph as a means of carrying to the farmers agricultural marki : news such as prices and conditions Is to be tested bv the department of agriculture agri-culture In 00-e'peration with the bureau bu-reau of Standards: The experiment Is to be tried In half a dor.cn Maryland and Virginia counties' adjacent to the District of Columbia and If successful will be extended er the country. The plans contemplate the eventual use of seventeen wireless stations oyer the count rv The wireless news of market conditions and prices will be sent brn.irli ihI amj t rniriKcuiriils will be made with numerous private II- erised oier:Pur;j who would aid In distributing dis-tributing the reports to farmers and others Intereste d In the territory g; ov-ered. ov-ered. Present plans for the system provide- for tho use of ten wireless stations sta-tions with 11 -'.jO-mlle r.idlii' 1, hi In the tast where mark t cent rs are more numerous and closer together, and two in the far west, two 300-mile radius-stations to reach ih' outlying points of Maine and New York; to bo located In the northeastern part of the country, and five 600-m.Ue radius stations sta-tions west Of the Mississippi Bach of the distributing radio stations sta-tions would be connected with the Washington headciuartcrs and other distributing stations by leased tele-graph tele-graph wires of the present market n m service of the departme nt ami twice elay would receive for Immediate Immedi-ate release by wireless a summarized rinnrt nf nmrlml n,w1ltis..... ....a tions at the principal market centers and shipping points. Detailed reports of market conditions In the lmmerl,atc territory served would also be releasee as well as crop and weather reports Issued by IhC department of agriculture. |