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Public Libraries Support Agricultural Readers Progress
The article surveys traveling agricultural libraries and state efforts to provide farm reading material. It notes New York Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Michigan and Virginia programs, with librarianship leaders and funding, and argues the farmer is a ready reader when suitable books reach rural communities. It also highlights Dewey's traveling library origin and stresses the need for practical farming literature to boost productivity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uring
State Library Commission
Department of Agriculture
Connecticut
Illinois
A. B. Hosteter
Farmers’ Institutes
Joseph Carter
Emma T. Davenport
Agricultural Department
Washington
State Agricultural College and Experiment Station
Agricultural Library
Melvil Dewey
New York
Tate Library
Albany
Granges
Wisconsin
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Farmers’ Institute
Clinton D. Smith
State Experiment Station
Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Seaboard Air Line Railway
United States