lAA Is Host 

 To 65 Foreign 

 Farm Leaders 



Visit Illinois While on Nation-Wide 

 Tour to Study U.S. Agriculture 



WHEN you put a farmer from 

 New Zealand at a table with a 

 farmer from Illinois it doesn't 

 take them long to start ex- 

 changing crop reports. That's 

 about the way you can describe the 

 luncheon the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation gave for fi5 delegates from 

 about 20 countries in Chicago late in 

 June. These farmers from foreign 

 countries stopped in Chicago after at- 

 tending a recent meeting of the Inter- 

 national Federation of Agricultural 

 Producers at Guelph. Ontario. 



As guesti! of the American Farm Bu- 

 reau Federation these farmers who rep- 

 resent farm organizations from various 

 parts of the world were taken on a tour 

 of the United States. In the various 

 areas visited the state Farm Bureaus 

 were in charge of the sight seeing. In 

 Chicago, the tour was planned by Roy 

 Johnson, director of special services for 

 the lAA. It included visits to South 

 \^'ater Market, the stockyards, a packing 

 plant, other points of interest and the 

 luncheon at the Sherman Hotel. 



Among the countries represented by 

 the farmers were: United Kingdom, 

 France, Germany, Sweden, New Zea- 

 land, India. Netherlands, China. Costa 

 Rica, Switzerland, South Africa, Den- 

 mark, Iceland. Norway, Kenya, Japan, 

 Southern Rhodesia. Finland, Canada, 

 and Luxembourg. 



H. H. Hannam, Ottawa, Canada, new- 

 ly elected president of the International 

 Federation of Agricultural Producers, 

 speaking for the visitors said that real 

 progress has been made during the first 

 two years of the Marshall Plan. Pro- 

 duction of the main crops in European 

 countries was already up to pre-war 

 level and in some cases, above it. Com- 

 plete recovery of the livestock produc- 

 tion was delayed only by current diffi- 

 culties in the purchase of feeding stuffs. 

 Hannam said that European countries 

 fully appreciate the aid which they have 

 received under the Marshall Plan and 

 are making every effort to play their 

 full part in the rebuilding of a balanced 

 world economy. He said that the 

 European countries want America to 



AUGUST. 1949 



lAA board memberM paute to chat with Key Yung (left) state 

 dlractor of agriculture, at luncheon for foreign farm leaders. 

 Left to right are: Stale Director Yung, Albert Webb, franklin 

 county, 35th district; Mrs. Webb; and T. H. lloyd, Macoupin, 31st 



district. 



Among the farnt leaders at the luncheon 

 for the visitors from foreign countries given 

 by the lAA are left to right, t. I. Morris, 

 lAA vice president; H. H. Hannam, Ottawa, 

 Canada, newly elected president of the 

 International federation of Agricultural Pro- 

 ducers; Charles B. Shuman, lAA president; 

 Allan 6. Kline, Anterican Farm Bureau prosi' 

 dent, and Hoy Yung, state director of 

 agriculture. 



Martin H. Kennelly, mayor of Chicago, 



officially welcomes representatives of 



foreign farm organizations to Chicago. 



know that their help has been appreci- 

 ated and that it will be put to the best 

 possible use in trying to rebuild a better 

 world. 



The Canadian leader warned, how- 

 ever, that the destruction caused by five 

 years of total war is so great that it 

 will take a lot of toil, skill, and brains 

 to put farm and industrial production 

 back in shape. He said that the re- 

 covery of European agriculture is vital 

 not only to feed the people of Europe, 

 but also to guarantee farmers, who rep- 

 resent more than one-third of the popu- 

 lation, a decent standard of living. 



How To Milk When 

 The Power Goes Off 



FRED KNAPP. Iroquois county 

 dairyman. ha.« solved the problem of 

 how to milk his cows by machine when 

 the electricity goes off. 



Knapp put a stallbox in the intake 

 manifold of his tractor. Now he can 

 drive the tractor up to the barn and 

 connect it to the milker vacuum Hnc 

 with a hose. He just opens the stall- 

 cock and the tractor engine then creates 

 enough of a vacuum to allow him to 

 keep on milking by machine. 



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