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PROCLAMATION 3495-SEPT. 25, 1962

[76 STAT.

DONE at the City of Washington this twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN KUSK,

Secretary

of State.

Proclamation 3495 NATIONAL FARM-CITY WEEK, 1962 September 25, 1962

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS this year marks the completion of the first one hundred years of service of the United States Department of Agriculture; and WHEREAS this is also the centennial year of the establishment of the land-grant system of universities and colleges; and WHEREAS an individual American farm worker can now produce food and fiber for himself and twenty-six others, the greatest farm efficiency ever known to m a n; and WHEREAS this agricultural efficiency and abundance is necessarv not only to the well-being of all our own people and to the strength of our Nation, but also to the growth of freedom in the newly emerging nations who look to us for the shared fruits of our land and the technology of our agriculture; and WHEREAS this abundant production and skill of the American farmer has enabled our cities to grow, without fear of hunger; and WHEREAS the American farmer is ever more dependent on the city worker to supply the machines and power and other tools necessary for this efficient farm production; and WHEREAS there is a continuing need for mutual recognition and appreciation by farm families and city families of their interdependence: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of November 16 through November 22, 1962, as National Farm-City Week; and I call upon our citizens throughout the Nation to participate fully in the observance of that week. I request labor, business and civic associations, industry groups, women's clubs, and all consumers, along with farm groups, to join in this observance as evidence of Americans appreciation to all those, in the cities and on the farms, who provide us with food and fiber for better living. I request the Department of Agriculture and other appropriate Federal agencies, the land-^rant colleges and universities, and the Cooperative Extension Service to cooperate with national, state, and local groups in preparing and carrying out programs for the appropriate observance of National Farm-City Week, including public meetings, exhibits, pageants, press, radio, and television features, with special emphasis on the interdependence of farm families and city families.

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