RURAL 

 YOUTH 



ULIIVOIS 



STUDENTS OF THE LARGEST PROBLEM IN FARMING — MARKETING 

 Thirty-six young farmers from eight counties probed deeply into livestock marketing 

 problems under the able tutelage of Henry Parke, president of the Chicago Producers Com- 

 mission Association, Dave Swanson, Producers manager and Sam Russell, livestock market- 

 ing director of the lAA, during a tour of the Union Stock Yards, April 27. 



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YOUTH LOOKS XM OVER 

 Above: 21 farm boys judge live- 

 stock at the Peoria yards, April 19. 

 Four counties were represented. 

 Left: At the National Stock Yards, 

 East St. Louis, 70 students from 14 

 counties perch at vantage points to 

 make their placings in a judging 

 contest. 



RADIO SPEAKERS 

 Genevieve Bowyer. Betty 

 Mitchell and Edgar Stems 

 broadcast via WEBQ, Har- 

 risburg, April 6. Farm Ad- 

 viser Dee Small is shown 

 with them. They hail from 

 Williamson county. 



FUTURE FARM LEADERS DONT TAKE THINGS EASY 



Above, right: The Gallatin Rural Youth radio team: Denis 

 Raben, Gilbert Cox, Si Brown, Garlond Jennings and Earl Lutz. With 

 them is Farm Adviser Roy H. Roll. 



Below, left: L. D. Hall, lAA, explains the operation of a central 

 livestock market to 142 vocational agriculture students and 4-H 

 clubbers at the Peoria stockyards. 



Below, center: Ted Hoier, monager of the Producers Creamery of 

 Ml Sterling, being interviewed by the Brown county radio team. 

 They ore seeking iniormation on cooperative marketing to add to their 

 program. 



Below, right: Future farm wives, too, accept their fair share of 

 organisation responsibility. Shown are the officer* and directors of 

 the Peoria county Rural Youth group. 



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