The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-09-15
AGRICULTURAL DEPT.
ANNOUNCES RADIO
PROGRAM l927-le2S

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
Sammy's" Daily Housekeepers' Chat,
the Noon-time Farm Flashes and the
United States Radio Farm School, as
well as eight special 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-per-day
week program which proved popular
last year. These chats are written in
an informal style and contain brief
discussions of such important prob
lens of 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 redue-
ed 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 woodlit, 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 10
minutes long, and take the form of
a rapid-fire question and answer con-
versation between the farmer and his
county agricultural agent. This was
a Is minute program last year, 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 on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
and will be a dialogue program devot-
ed to crops and soils, farm economics
and community life, and livestock ma
terial. The lessons will be broadcast
as popular discussions between
modern, practical farmers and trained
farm specialists.
The Poultry Chats, new program
worked out in answer to numerous re-
quests for special poultry program
will be 10 minute, Tuesday program
dealing with modern methods of prof.
table poultry production.
Other Special features" each of
which will be broadcast once a week
are: The Young Folks Program, 10
minutes every Friday. "Uncle Abe
will tell stories with farm slants tc
children of different ages. The insect
and Wild Life Allies and Enemy
talks, 10-minute Wednesday pro-
gram, will deal with farm insect and
wild animal pests and friends. The
Primer for Town Farmers, a 10 min
ute Monday release, will take ur
gardening, home Identification and
economy with a town-home slant. And
the Farm News Digest, a minute
Saturday talk, will review briefly the
farm news of the week.
Last seasons weekly, minute
chats by the weather man, will be
heightened to 10 minutes this yea1
and will be broadcast on alternate
Wednesdays. This program deals with
the ever popular discussion topic, the
weather.
The radio service announces two
special monthly programs for this
year: The Agricultural Situation Re-
view, to be broadcast on the first Mon
day of each month during the broad
cast season, and the special monthly
Farm Playlets. The Review will dea
with crops and general current farm
conditions as we'll as the agricultural
prospects in the various key regions
This is a 10 minute program. Time
" farm problems will be dramatizec
into Commute radio one-act plays fol-
the farm playlets.
Information for the various radio
service programs is furnished by spec
ialists of the various bureaus of the
department of agriculture. This IN
formation is written up in popular ant
informal style of trained radio writ
ers employed by the department and
after being approved by the bureaus
concerned with each program, is sen
to the stations for broadcast. Thu
system assures the large farm au
dience of timely, accurate, and first
hand information on practical and up
to-date farming methods in America
The same general method used las
year will be employed during 1921
in the preparation of radio program
bearing the approval of the Unite'
States Department of Agriculture.
The new season will continue fror
Monday, October 3, 1927, to April sc
1928.
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