Vintage Farm Journal And Farmer's Wife Magazine October 1941‎ Corn Cover

Brand/Publication: Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife. Issue: October 1941 softcover magazine featuring the Most Beautiful Crop corn cover, with selections from readers' letters. Format: Staple-bound illustrated agriculture and home & garden periodical focused on farming and homemaking. Published monthly by Farm Journal, Inc., Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; copyright 1941, Volume LXXV, Number 10. Front cover color photograph of ears of corn is credited to Holmes I. Mettee of Baltimore, Maryland, with corn furnished by Funk Bros. Seed Co., Bloomington, Illinois, and De Kalb Agricultural Assoc., Inc., De Kalb, Illinois, and photographic work by Mac Ball Studios, New York City. Contents in the Farm Journal section include articles such as All of Us, Topics in Season, The Way Things Look Now, North-East-West-South, Minding Your Business, Goings-On in Washington, Fighting Taxes With Facts, Bits of Farming, Little Journeys in Farm Management. Issue includes period advertising and ephemera such as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Lion's Roar motion picture promotion page and a colorful back-cover advertisement for Kalamazoo gas, coal, and wood ranges with a mail-in catalog coupon. The circulation statement inside notes that this October 1941 issue exceeds 2,575,000 copies. Language: English; a vintage World War II era farming and homemaking magazine suitable for collectors of agricultural history and rural Americana ephemera.