Farmers

Dillard Lasseter, Administrator of the Farmer's Home Administration (right), is shown handing a note from the Treasury of the United States to an unidentified man and his family.

President Harry S. Truman(third from right) at the National Plowing Match in Dexter, Iowa. He is with (from left to right) defending champions Gene Ferguson, Oskaloosa, Iowa; Leo Drake, Memphis, Missouri; Ronald Orr, Beatrice, Nebraska; Elston Danielson, Ellsworth, Iowa; and plowing match director Herb Plambeck.

President Harry S. Truman (standing at podium) addresses the visitors at the National Plowing Match held near Dexter, Iowa. Also present is Margaret Truman (standing on stage, third from right). All others are unidentified.

This is an example of the classic plow of India. It scratches without actually turning the soil. The new-type plow being introduced all over India does a better job. The government of India and the Point Four Program cooperated in the community development program to help improve agriculture, health, and education in India.

A county agricultural agent near Puno, Peru shows farmers how to inoculate alpacas for the control of internal parasites as part of a program sponsored by the Point Four Program. All are unidentified.

Farm equipment in use on the Truman family farm in Grandview, Missouri. The figure riding the tractor is unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman and the former First Lady Bess Truman shakes hands with Orville Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture, and Averell Harriman, during a tribute to former President Truman. The former President was being acknowledged for being a farmer by the Farmers of America. The event was in the RLDS Auditorium in Independence, Missouri. An 80th birthday cake for Mr. Truman is in the background.

Unidentified farmers are threshing rice on the My Tho Road in Vietnam.

Image of unidentified farmers threshing rice on the My Tho Road in Vietnam.

Image of unidentified farmers threshing Rice on the My Tho Road, somewhere in Vietnam.