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    "ocrText": "IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nINFORMAL REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT ON THE\nSCENE AT THE NATIONAL PLOYING MATCH IN\nDEXTER, IOWA, SEPTEMBER 18, 1948, 2.15\nPM, CST\nThank you very much. I have had a most pleasant day, and\noutside the fact that I have had to make speeches it has been a\nhappy day.\nI heard a follow tell a story about how he felt when he\nhad to make speeches. It's an old, old story. I heard it about\n40 years ago. He said when he has to make a speech, he felt\nlike the follow who was at the funeral of his wife, and the\nundertaker had asked aim if he would ride down to the cemetery\nin the same cer with his mother-in-law. 110 said, \"Well, I can\ndo it, but it's just going to spoil the whole day for me.\"\nI an in sort of that frame of mind, but I have had to make\na\nspeech, especially one as important as that one this morning\nwhich I made which outlines the Democratic platform on the farm.\nI had a most interesting and educational tour around this\nplowing contest ground today. I met the owners and tenants of\nthese farms and inquired of them if they thought all of this\ntramping would ruin this good Iowa soil; and they said NO one\nrain would cure it all. That is remarkable. That is entirely\nremerkable.\nI saw this straight line plowing contest as we came in,\nand was particularly interested in watching to see whether there\nwere jumps and curves in the furrows. I didn't see any places\nwhere it could be said there was a crook in the furrow. They\nwere all so straight. I don't see how they could ever check them.\nI went over and looked at the contour plowing, and the uses\nthat were being made of the waterholes to stop the wash -- most\ninteresting. I was down in the Virgin Islands not long ago and\nthey are starting that contour treatment of the hills and vol-\ncanoes down in that part of the world, and they are raising some\nremarkable crops on those terraces. So you see, we are using\nour knowledge not only to improve Iowa and Misscuri and Illinois,\nwe are using it to improve those peoples who are dependent upon\nus for a living and for information on how to make a living.\nYour friend who introduced me said that he would like to\nhear some of my experiences as a farmer. It is hardly worth\ntelling at this age.\nMR. PLAMBECK: President Truman, although all of these\npeople are farm people, we like to think of it as progressive\nfarm people in the midwest. Mr. Truman, I know that they would\nlove to hear you make at least a comment or two about your own\nfarming recollections. One thing I am quite sure, they would\nlike to hear you make a reference to is a statement that some of\nyour neighbors made, that you could plow one of the straightest\nfurrows of anyone in your community. Would you cure to elaborate\non that just 8 little?\nTHE PRESIDENT: I will tell you frankly, that statement was\nmade by a very, very prejudiced witness: that statement was made\nby my mother.\nI did have E reputation, though, of being able to SOW a\n160-acre wheat field without a skip place showing in it. My\nfather used to always raise SC much fuss about a skip place on an\nbat field or a wheet field that I was very careful never to have\na skip place. I accomplished it by putting E marker on the drill\nit was like planting corn.\nOVER"
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