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Show EXCHANGE PROGRAM Junior Farmers Visit Australia Under Farm Youth Exchange The first American junior farmers to visit Australia under the International Interna-tional Farm Youth Exchange project, proj-ect, two girls and one boy, have arrived in Sydney, New South Wales. The three young farmers, members mem-bers of the U.S. 4-H Club, will spend about six months in Australia ' hi 1 it'' ,1 ! I - 1 V v ! (Ml;' . more, 22, of Norfolk, Va.; Mary Sue Nichols, 20 of North Carolina; and Keith Duane Burt, 19, of Kansas. Burt, whose family operates a 920-acre Kansas farm, on which they graze sheep and grow wheat, corn and other crops, will study sheep raising and agriculture on a grazing property near Sydney Miss Nichols' family operates a 105-acre farm. Their main products are tobacco, wheat, alfalfa, and chickens. She will study conditions on a farm in Western Australia. Miss Blackmore's family has a 73-acre farm in Virginia. She will visit a dairy farm north of Sydney. During their stay in Australia the Americans will be quartered on two different types of farm, so that they may gain a full appreciation of conditions con-ditions in Australian rural districts. The Young Farmers Movement in Australia is patterned after the American 4-H Club. It has 20.000 members In six Australian states, including 10,000 in New South Wales. The constitution of the Young Farmers Movement in Australia is also patterned on the 4-H Club, and, in turn, the constitution of the Federation Fed-eration of Young Farmers of England Eng-land and Wales is fashioned on similar simi-lar lines. And like the 4-H Club, all young farmer members embrace a system of "learning by doing". Each boy and girl is required to undertake at least one of 23 projects which include in-clude poultry farming, vegetable growing, dairying, agriculture, pig raising, wool growing, pasture improvement im-provement and farm tractor maintenance. The first American Junior farmers to visit Australia under the International Farm Youth Exchange project, walking under un-der the towering arch and carriageway car-riageway of the Sydney harbor bridge. (Left to right are Mary Sue Nichols, Keith Duane Burt and Cora Blackmore.) studying various phases of the pastoral pas-toral and agricultural industries. The visitors are: Cora Black- 'd k) A Wt f? t t NEW LOOK . . . Army women model new uniforms. |
