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Digitized from Box 3 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 7, 1974
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
NATIONAL FARM-CITY WEEK, 1974
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
The two hundred years which have passed since America's
birth has witnessed a dramatic change in our society. From
a primarily rural nation, we have grown to a country of great
cities and towns, and farmers now make up less than five
percent of our national population.
As we have learned from our recent food shortages,
however, the cities have not lost their fundamental depen-
dence upon the farms for the basics in life. Nor are our
farms any less dependent upon our urban centers for their
products and services.
There is, indeed, a continuing partnership, often
recognized but little honored. It is that partnership we
must build upon to achieve a new abundance and prosperity
in the future.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the
United States of America, do hereby designate the period
November 22 through November 28, 1974 as National Farm-City
Week.
I invite our civic and business groups, our agricultural
organizations, our service clubs, our labor unions, our schools
and other interested groups to participate in this observance.
I request the United States Department of Agriculture, our
land-grant educational institutions, and all appropriate or-
ganizations and Government officials to mark the significance
of National Farm-City Week with special events and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred seventy-four, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the one hundred ninety-ninth.
GERALD R. FORD
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