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Show Russel Mayers Return From So. American Jaunt Mr. and Mrs. Russel May- -er returned recently from a trip to South America with an organization of Past Winners Win-ners of Outstanding Young Farmers. All had been so honored during past years and have formed their own organization. organiza-tion. The 18-day agricultural agricultur-al trip took them to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Bo-livia, and Peru. There were bus tours to ranches and agricultural areas where they observed crops of corn and soy beans and many cattle. cat-tle. Russel said it was possible pos-sible to produce cattle for market In Brazil for 8 to 10? per pound. They went to the headwaters head-waters of the Amazon, and the Lost City of the Incas and the trip took them to an airport in Peru, 13,400 feet above sea level. |