BENEFICIAL RAIN.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20181, 9 March 1931, Page 11

BENEFICIAL RAIN.

♦—-- '• DROUGHT IN U.S.A. BROKEN. HW CROSS , * • ' PBOPfcB.' '.f ' ~t *- (Uipizp PBIBB ! ASSOtg^TlOir—sit " HLXOTBIO T3XS(»APBC—QpyTSWBT.) ' ' - (Received J&frcfe Btft, 8,30 ,p.ni-) CHICAGO, March 7; : : The mid.-winter drought, /Which *- I s nation-wide in extent, iS" serous injury to crops anr] the water supply in ' m);tny communities, inciting siich «tftieß «a New York, but was bp &WV, X t<hd»y> when and snow fell ~pyiw: '' the entire country, - Chicago suffered from a' |>|ifsz&rd and a galp, a foot'of snow falling. All Illinois, Iowa ; Wisconsin, and. Michigan were similarjy I ages;<?d. Thfc. !&idwes;t grain belt, especially,? benefited by snow, and the lower, valleya of Mississippi and Ohio be6efitw by heavy rains. } The sgim;"t£tendecl as far so\fth,as and Louisiana, where it also did considerable property damage. *' - * ! The Federal "Weather SMi .stated that tl)e drought, v bad progressed to' Buch an exWpt. that a/the grain areas nujst Jjave leapt a fpot more rain during thd next two, 'weeks to, restore the n&iature tp the subsoil,. and' to start the spring, growing season properly. '" ' The Red Cross 1 Society that during February it almost half a million; persons, in Janpary ,in the areas, covering 21 States- ' ffK P>Hlion persons wqre now, receiving -aid. The drought in'many of these 1 sections is more than a year, in, duration.