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Show Hoosier Farmers Set Cedar Area Visit Two hundred Indiana farmers, taking advantage of a breather period on the farm between a small grain harvest and fall corn harvest, are in Cedar City today, visiting local farmers, stockmen and nearby scenic points, en-route en-route on their Hoosier Harvest Special train through nine states on a 5,300-mile education and vacation 12-day trip. Sponsored and conducted by the Indiana Farm Bureau, an organization or-ganization of more than 92,000 Hoosier farm families, the tour is the third operated by the farmers farm-ers during the past 20 months. Over 1,000 persons took part In the earilier two tours, but the current tour was limited to the number of reservations that could be obtained at Yellowstone and the southern Utah national a parks, explained Glenn W. Sample, official of the Indiana Farm Bureau, in charge of the trip. On this trip, the farmers will study irrigation farming, range problems, co-operative poultry dressing plants, sheep ranch production pro-duction problems, and conditions as found on the prairie. The governors of both Utah and Wyoming have met with the Hoosier farmers at Salt Lake City and Laramie, respectively. Highlights of the tour include a visit to the King Ranch and the University of Wyoming, a full day at Salt Lake City including in-cluding a visit to a farmer-owned poultry packing plant, three days at Yellowstone, and two and one-half days at the Southern Utah National parks, including Zion, Grand Canyon, and Cedar Breaks. |