Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-24

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conceded Mr.. Thomas wa!
right in saying that anyone
who builds machinery based or
someone else's work should bt
able to improve it.
| What Mr.. Khrushchev wa
seeking to find out was how
American farmers are able tt
provide an increasingly better
diet for an increasing popu-
lation with fewer and fewer
people on the farms.
MIR. Khrushchev, rugged ano
bouncy. tramped through part
Of a mile-Square corn field
looked at fat cattle and tried
to get an idea how it is that
it takes so few Americans tt
raise so much food and ever
have a surplus.
His primary host was Capt
t7,s Farmer Roswell Bob
Garst. who operates thousands
Of acres in West Central Iowa
Mr.. Garst had met the Pre-
mier previously on two trips tc
Russia. He invited the Pre-.
mier to visit him when ht
visited America.
4sEs Machinery Displayed
/ Lined up at the huge CON-
field that extends a mile il
each direction were all kinds
of red and green farm MA.
chimes. including one that
plants six rows Of corn at q
time and applies both fertilizer
and insecticides, too.
Mr.. Garst was trying to i'm.
press on his guest that the
farm has been seeded to corr
for nearly a score of years. Mr.
Garst doesn't believe in cror
rotation, but in putting the
necessary nitrogen back into
the ground through fertilizers
rather than clover, which loes
the job more slowly and more
extensively.
! Mr.. Khrushchev saw a new
type of corn harvester, how
corn is dried on the ear anC
IN shelled form, and how Mr.
Thomas gets good results Will
cattle by cross-breeding pure.
bred Angus cows and CharolaiS
bulls.
Pats Fat Man
( Standing in a grain sorghum
field, the Soviet leader spottec
Donald Watkins. Mr.. Watkin.
weighs $40 pounds and displays
a girth as ample as Mr.. Khru-
Shchev's own.
The Premier reached out anc
patted him on the stomach.
Roaring with laughter. he ex.
planned:
"Ha! That's what America i.
like"
In the heart of the farm
belt, Mr.. Khrushchev repeatet
again his claim that Russia i.
going to outstrip the United
States in production of Every.
thing-corn included.
The 65-year-old Khrushchev
and the 6l-year-old Cars
tramped through row after row
Of corn. then walked on a 10.
foot pile Of ensilage stacked II
an open trench.
Flies flew up from the freshly
chopped corn stalks and ears
and swarmed on the Premier.
bald head. He finally gave ur
trying to keep his scalp cleal
and clamped on his gray fell
hat.
The Premier meandered BY
car from farm to farm anC
wound up for lunch under 9
tent on the lawn of Mr.. GarSt's
home a mile out of Coon Rap.
ids.
Premier Stands in Line
1t wasn't the family dinner
Mrs. Garst had wanted to pro,
vide there were so many
guests a Des Moines caterins
service had to be summoned
into action.
The Premier stood in lint
with everybody else, 1utfe
style, and helped himself t.
sugar-cured ham. barbecuet
ribs and country-f fried chicken
He sat down at one of a mum
Der of tables, fianked by MIR
Garst and another acquaint
ance, Adlai E. Stevenson.
Like Mr.. Garst, The forme
Democratic presidential nom
inee had met Mr.. Khrushche,
in Russia.
Mr.. Stevenson was at the en-
trance to the yard at the Cars
farm when Mr. Khrusl,oba