Farmers and housewives are getting material help from radio programs when they write in and ask for further information on the subject, it is believed. Farmers say that their interest in certain subjects was aroused in the first place by the radio talks. This makes it generally desirable to supplement radio farm talks with printed information based on the talks. This number does not represent any final total inasmuch as calls for the books are coming in every day and thousands of the little recipe books are still being distributed. They are popular.
Poultry lectures series.
The cookbook and the Farm School pamphlets, which are free, deal specifically with the subject matter broadcast. Moreover, the radio farm programs stimulated demand for many other kinds of printed matter. At least 10,000 letters from farmers, asking specific questions inspired by radio talk, were answered by personal letters during the year. All these letters were referred to that bureau of the Department specializing in the sort of information requested. No less than 10,000 were received during the winter months and given personal answer.