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Published Weekly liv Tlie Rural Publishing do.. 
W. 30th St.. New York. Price One Dollar a Year. 
NEW YORK, MAY G, 1022 
Entered as Second-Class Matter. .Tune 26. 13T9. at the Post XT 
Oflice at New \ork. N. Y.. under the Act of March 3. 1379. ->0. 4080 
Some Experiences With a Radiophone 
M ARKET REPORTS.—I consider the wireless 
telephone or radiophone as being the most 
valuable thing bestowed upon mankind, and like the 
automobile,, benefiting many, hut principally the 
1,inner. It has become a necessity as well as an 
endless source of enjoyment. We receive daily the 
market reports from Newark. X. J. (WJZ), the 
value of which cannot he overestimated, for every 
fanner has something to sell, many different things, 
perhaps, and while he may know the approximate 
value of his produce, the merchants fie deals with 
{,| 'e usually better posted on prices, enabling them 
f 1 take advantage of us when the market jumps up, 
and are prompt with the had news when the market 
ground would be appreciated. I received an answer 
immediately from II. H. Jones, in charge, asking 
what else I would be interested in. as they were 
anxious to improve this service to cover the needs 
of farmers. My answer suggested that the prices of 
eggs, butter, live stock and poultry be added daily, 
along with the prices of apples, potatoes. Onions, 
cabbage, carrots, etc., already being broadcast, and 
the answer came sooner than I expected. Before 
the mails could carry it the announcer at Newark 
stated that hereafter the prices of eggs, butter, live 
stock, poultry, honey, hay, etc., would be given at 
the 6 p. ni. report, along with the other commodities 
quoted at noon. 
these stories very well, but nevertheless want to 
hear the man in the moon talk in papa’s wireless 
before they cau go to sleep, so you see that this lias 
become a necessity for them as well as for father, 
then when they are put to bed mother and I settle 
ourselves comfortably and listen to orchestras, 
bands, opera singers, jazz, vaudeville comedians or 
talks by prominent men we have perhaps wished to 
hear, and if the program is not to our liking we 
tune in another station; get Detroit or Chicago. 
Medford Hills, Mass., or a talk on keeping fit by the 
Public Health Service at Washington, D. C., and 
many others near here. I’ll wager the hired men 
stick on these places. There is no time limit placed 
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The Bepinninfi of a Business in Wool Production. Fi<j. 212 
takes a tumble. In fact, we are aware of the fact 
that the market is usually down when we have 
something t > >ell; at any rate, that is the old story 
1 think we are all tired of hearing. Merchants as 
a rule get printed daily reports by mail, and find 
this service pays them well, but at the cost of this 
service the farmer usually balks, though its cost is 
small in comparison with what we lose without it. 
But this service is now given free to all who will 
grasp it from the air. We do not get our produce 
for nothing, but work on a dose margin, a few cents 
one way or the other meaning profit or loss. 
HELP FROM THE STATE AUTHORITIES.— 
The announcer at the Newark station requests all 
recipients of the market reports so to state on a 
postal addressed to the Department of Farms and 
Markets. 90 West Broadway. New York City. In 
compliance with this request I sent a postal so 
stating, and added that reports covering more 
I Nil ERSITY COURSES.—I believe the time is 
near when the Agricultural Station at Cornell will 
not only broadcast these reports, hut give lectures 
and courses by radio, as some of the other colleges 
are doing. One is, I understand, to give a course 
on radio and another a complete university course 
to all who care to listen in nightly and take notes, 
which will he dictated slowly. Both will be given 
from Schenectady. N. Y.. I believe. Hurray! We 
can all dust our garrets a hit. 
DAIRY AMUSEMENTS.—Now, we never run 
short of amusements with a radiophone. Music is 
broadcast from 11 a. ui. to almost if not 11 p. ni. 
During the day it is mostly phonograph music, and 
the good kind, all evening. After supper it is my 
chore to tune in Pittsburg. Pa. (KDKA station), 
that the children may hear "Uncle Wiggley’s” bed¬ 
time story, or “the man in the moon” stories from 
Newark. My children are too small to understand 
on this music. One evening, or morning rather, for it 
was after midnight. I was trying to see what luck 
I would have in pickiug up distant stations, on the 
coast, if possible, and as their time is earlier there 
I expected that there might, be a chance of getting 
something. I did get music, and thought I had 
made a record, but pshaw! he announced himself 
as WOE at Philadelphia, and kept on with his pro¬ 
gram, so I "dusted for the hay.” 
VARIED INFORMATION.—Election campaigning 
is also to be carried on by radio, and we may listen 
to the candidates squabbling in our sitting-room, all 
the great lights being within hearing. Imagine lis¬ 
tening to Bryan and Harding in 1924 arguing over 
the job right at home! We also get the weather 
reports and storm warnings, two days in advance, 
which is valuable to all of us. interesting to city 
folks, and the time is relayed from the Naval 
Observatory at Arlington twice daily, giving the time 
