The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-09-14
PAGE EIGHT

Eleven farm and household fea-
lures forming the extended 1929
program of the Radio Service, United
States Department of Agriculture,
are announced for broadcast begin
ming October 8, 1927. The schedule
listing the full program has been
sent to radio stations in all parts of
the United States and full list of
stations which will broadcast Radio
Service features during the coming
year will be released soon.
The new seasons program includes
three of last years favorites: "Aunt
aSammy's" Daily Housekeepers' Chat,
the Noon-time Farm Flashes, and the
United States Radio Farm School, as
well as eight Especial features" some
of which will be put on the air for
the first time when the season opens
early in October.
"Aunt Sammy's" Chats will con-
tinue as the 10-minute, five-day-per-
week program which proved popular
last year. These Chats are written
IN an informal style and contain brief
discussions of such important prob
lens as home-making as meal plan
ming, marketing, cooking, canning,
health and food habits of children,
sewing, home furnishing, decoration,
gardening, and other closely related
subjects. The Chats have been re-
aiuced from Is to 10 minutes in length
to comply with requests for shorter
programs.
Practical and useful information
dealing with poultry keeping, dairy
ing, livestock, crops and soils, fruits
and vegetables, the farm woodlot,
and marketing farm products will
feature the Noon-time Farm Flashes
this year. The Flashes are put on
the air five days each week; the talks
are ten minutes long, and take the
form of a rapid-fire QUESTIONABLE
answer conversation between farm
ser and his county agricultural agent.
This was a 15-minute program last
wear, but has been cut down to 10
minutes.
The United States Radio Farm
School has also been reduced from
Is to 10 minutes in length. Farm
School talks will be broadcast Mon
days, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and
will be dialogue program devoted to
community life, and livestock mater
ials. The lessons will be broadcast
as popular discussions between mod
ern, practical farmers and trained
farm specialists.
The Poultry Chats, a new program
worked out in answer to numerous
requests for a special poultry pro-
gram, will be a 10-minute, Tuesday,
program dealing with modern meth
DDS of profitable poultry production.
Other special features" each of
which will be broadcast once week,
are: The Young Folks Program, 10
minutes every Friday. "Uncle Abe"
will tell stories with farm slants to
children of, different ages. The Insect
and Wild Like Allies and Enemies
talks, a 10-minute Wednesday pro-
gram, will deal with farm insect and
wild animal pests and friends. The
Primer for Town Farmers, 10-min-
ute Monday release, will take up gar
dening, home Identification and econ
omy with a town-home slant. And
the Farm News Digest, minute,
Saturday talk, will review briefly the
farm news of the week.
Last seasons weekly, five-minute
Chats by the Weather Man, will be
heightened to 10 minutes this year
and will be broadcast on alternate
Wednesdays. This program deals
with the ever-popular discussion top
ic, the weather.
The Radio Service announces two
special monthly programs for this
year: The Agricultural Situation Re-
view, to be broadcast the first Mon
day of each month during the broad
cast season, and the special monthly
Farm Playlets. The Review will deal
with crops and general current farm
conditions as well as the agricultural
prospects in the various key regions.
This is 10-minute program. Timely
farm problems will be dramatized in
to Commute radio one-act plays for
the Farm Playlets.
Information for the various Radio
Service programs is furnished by
specialists of the various bureaus of
the Department of Agriculture. This