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'r FARM JOURNAL Test Group alumnae who are here in Dublin include Mrs. E, L. Survanl, Colorado; Mrs. Lawrence Fisher, Wisconsin: Mrs. Floyd Tucker. lndinnn; Mrs. Bernard L Richter, Nebraska; Mrs. J. S. Van Wcrt, lawa, Farm talk . . . Idea swapping "Our country lives on the sheep's back" (Australia). "When does the monsoon come to Texas?" (Laos). "Milking is expensive business now that farm laborers have n 5-day week" (The Netherlands) "It's rained every day since August 2, and a combine can't swim" (England). "We have to import rice, so we're trying to produce more of it ourselves and also to eat more vegetables instead" (Philippines). "The price of cattle dropped $8.50 per head in the last week, but the price of meat hasn't gone down a lhritppence" (lrcland). Familiar story! "Those rough strips on the bottoms of bathtubs I've seen in Ireland are what we need for our old people's homes" (The Netherlands). "Our women have scldont left [he sheltering tree of home. Colored badges with their names may help cttre their shy- ness" (Cameroons, West Africa). "The Irish cooperativcs' exhibit gives me courage to plan for a model kitchen at our international trade fair" (Paki' slim). "A psychologist on the nutrition stall of a home cc college in Holland helps sell nutrition and change food habits. Why don't we try that at our state college?" (U.S.) Odds and ends from my notebook I When ACWW asked for action pictures to Show what member Organizations are doing, the headquarters office got. n photograph of Eskimo women dealing with a dead whale. I Duni. h ambassador to his Irish colleague: "You lrish gave "5 Scandinavians a hlnck eye at lite Battle of Clontnri (1014 A.D.). but we gave you lots of blue eyes." - One of America's greatest gifts to the world is our cxten- sivc nutrition research. I've just seen literature userl at an ACWW nutrition seminar in Sarawak (Malaysia). I was proud to see that the U.S. was the source of virtually all n"- trition information iven to Volunteer Southeast Asia leaders. - Handicraft exh' its at the meeting vary front carved wooden combs (Paptla and New Guinea) to an embroidered ceremonial gown tront Nepal. - Two firsts today . . . I wus introduced to u princess (from Sikkim) and I rode in :t Rolls Royce. - While I was making my speech to the conterence about how to report the ACWW meeting back home. I noticed in the audience of about LUOO a woman with a seedling conifer in a plastic bag, Later she told me she had brought ll Cedar of Lebanon to the Irish Countrywonten's training center. The center, a farm and school, was a gift to lreland from the Kellogg Foundation. I At business sessions each of us had an assigned seat. On my right sits a young woman front the Cameroons, West Atrica. She has a quick mind and a quick wit, and her round black face often lights up with an impish grinl Farm women in her country formed a co-op to buy barbed wire so that during harvest time they can fence their cows. she told me. Before that. women sat in the fields all night, beating drums to scare the cattle away from their crops. 0 Today I heard of a dairy co--op handling bufiaio milk. Also of a CD-opertttive matrimonial bureau (honesti). Many American Women here feel that our program on co- operation and cooperatives is aimed more at women of the emerging nations than at themszives. Now as hostesses they'll have the tough job oi planning a program for the 1968 con- ference which will help and satisfy U.S. women as well as those who go to club meetings by elephant. Em) NOVEMBER. ms Laura Laue, Farm JOURNAL, greel: Mrr. Knmsiah Ibrahim (right) of Malaysia, new vice president fur Asia, and Mrs. T. S. Be'l'lin/'dilio of the Philippines It! the AC W W meeting in Dublin. ACWW'S "Madam President," Aroti Dutt, is not a farm- er's wife--few [arm women in India .rpeuk English or have the background to attend mt international conference. But if Mrr. Dull has her way, Inditl'r [arm women will one day have the edumtion and opportunity. She ir the wife 0/ a lawyer, muther of a teen-aged ran and i.r n highly educnled social worker. though .l'he': a volunteer with no pay. Her molher--in-imv Starlet! the firrt women's urganiza. lion in Asia. A pacifist at heart, .l'iu' believes India rhouirl wage war on ignorance, illiteracy, poverty and Inuillulri. lion--not an a tteighbon Her two paramount ambitions . . ID leaf/l praclieai nutrition to Asian whim" mu] m persuade them to accept Imitin planning by We 0/ ,he "lamp," (1 rate, inexpensive umtmeeptt've. 75