The Washington herald., 1922-01-14
Radio Quotations.

II - LIZ more tnan one year OLD, tnc sCHeniS
II for disseminating market reports and quota
lions by wireless has spread throughout the United
States and is proving of the greatest assistance
to the farmer in intelligent sales of his products.
In survey of this ingenious development the
Department OF Agriculture relates that reports
on. the national markets are dispatched daily by
the department from wireless stations of the Post
Office Department at Cincinnati, Omaha. Wash
ington, North Platte, Nebr.; Rock Springs, Wyo.;
Elko, New, and Reno, New. These reports are
received by hundreds of amateur wireless OPP
orators. National market reports also received
by State bureaus of markets and agricultural COL
leges, supplemented with local market reports and
relayed by wireless telegraphy and telephone to
farmers. shipping associations, newspapers, banks,
and other agricultural interests"
Among the achievements and projects of the
service are listed the following:
The St. Louis University was perhaps the
first among educational institutions to broadcast
market reports by wireless These reports are
received by hundreds of farmers shipping associa-
tions. banks, and other agricultural interests and
telephone company in Eastern Illinois which re-
eeives the reports telephones the news regularly
to its 5000 subscribers.
AT Lincoln Nebr, the University OF Ne
braska and the Nebraska Wesleyan University are
cooperating in broadcastng crop and market re-
ports furnished by the State bureau of markets
Both radio telephone and telegraph are used At
Wisconsin the State department of markets broad
casts national and local market reports from
the University of Wisconsin wireless station at
Madison AT Minneapolis, crop and market re-
ports are broadcast from the University of Mime
sofa radio station. The Minnesota College of
Agriculture has also assigned an extension repre-
sentative to instruct the farmers in the use of
wireless receiving apparatus. The College OF Asr-
culture of Cornell University has assigned an
expert for similar work, and to assist rural radio
clubs that are being organized in New York
"A high-powered transmitting wireless tele-
phone is being installed in the Office of the Mis-
souri, State market bureau at Jefferson City. Mo-
and will be ready for disseminating market in
formation about January 10. Government reports
from the larger market of the country will
be received by means of drop from the leased
wire system of the Department of Agriculture,
and transmitted by radiophone to all sections of
Missouri. Demonstrations intended to interest
farmers, dealers, and shippers in installing the
necessary wireless receiving apparatus will be
held in various rural communities of the State, and
it is anticipated that telephone Offices newspapers
chambers of commerce, county agricultural agents.
banks, high schools, and cooperative marketing
associations will be among the first to install
receiving sets.
"A most complete program in the dissemina.
ton of market reports by wireless is being planned
by the State bureau of markets in Ohio, a
specially constructed radiophone transmtter of the
most improved type being installed in the radio
station of the University of Ohio for that purpose
The Texas markets and warehouse departments
are also planning a market news service by
radiophone for farmers. dealers, and shippers in
Texas, arrangements being made to use the radio
equipment of the University Of Texas at Austin -
Officials of the Department of Agriculture in
tend to make the American farmer "the best
informed farmer in the world" The progress dur
ing the twelve months past and that which seems
assured for the coming year should go far toward
securing that result.