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UNPRECEDENTED DROUGHT
(Received sth February, 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 4th February. The chairman of the Federal Farm Board, Mr. Legge, on Thursday declared that a shortage of wheat in the United States was entirely possible, if the drought continued. . The devastating unprecedented drought of 1930 persists.. Reports of the: Department of Agriculture characterise the week ending Wednesday as one of the driest ■ and warmest on record this season. The lack of moisture in large areas, especially as relates to subsoil, continues very acute, especially from the Mississippi Valley, eastward over the Ohio and Potomac drainage basins. Arkansas ■ reports no rainfall of consequence. Oklahoma,'an important wheat State, reports jio rain, and soil moisture short, i Tennessee is dry. Kentucky reports light showers. Much of the winter wheat belt is without a protecting cover of snow, yet the Department said .that the winter wheat was holding up remarkably well!.' •
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1931, Page 9
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148POSSIBLE SHORTAGE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1931, Page 9
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