DAIRY PRODUCTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1943, Page 4

DAIRY PRODUCTS

ARGENTINA AS SOURCE OF SUPPLY NOW AND AFTER BRITISH AND AMERICAN INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, August 4. The United Nations are looking to Argentina todaj r as a possible war time and post-war source of dairy and poultry products, as well as of beef and grains. A joint Anglo-American mission consisting of six dairy and poultry specialists has arrived in Argentina under the auspices of the Combined Food Board, the State Department announces. These specialists will give special attention to processing and dehydrating possibilities by means of which increased supplies of Argentine dried milk, butter, cheese, and dried eggs might be made available to the United Nations. Members of the mission, it is stressed, are neither purchasers nor negotiators, but are specialists charged with investigating the quantity and quality of Argentina's current and potential supplies. Before Argentina could become a major supplier of butter and eggs to the Allies, shipping facilities would have to be arranged and agreeable trade terms drawn up. Members of the mission include, for the United States —Gordon W. Sprague of the Office of Foreign Agriculture Relations, Jay G. Odell of the Food Distribution Administration, and Frank Stone, consultant to the War Food Administration in the Department of Agriculture; for the British —James H. Carmichael and James Clement of the Ministry of Food and Dr W. H. Cook of the Canadian National Research Council. The mission was joined in Argentina* by Paul A. Nyhus, United States Agricultural Attache at Buenos Aires. — “Christian Science Monitor.”