HUGE LOSSES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1930, Page 5

HUGE LOSSES

OF U.S.A. FARMERS. II ' • (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.. Consequent on-' the drought, President Hoover and Mr Hyde, of the Farm Board”are confronted with further demands for Federal aid lor the stricken farmers as they continue to organise the relief programme. * Ex-Governor Byrd has appealed ; for relief in Virginia, stating, that the damages to his State amount to one hundred millioh dollars, partly due to the loss of eight hundred thousand tons of hay arid thirty-million bushels of maize.

Mr Hyde has published a list of 173 additional counties in Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Virginia and Ohio where there is an emergency:

Ex-Governor* Byrd stated that one of the most "iefirius aspects of the situ-' ation lay ifri'Hhe 'fact' that the relief* for farmers witiibtit credit ; fSUriTities will have tiFaw&it le’gislatibri” ' and Congress will' fiot He'“in session until December. ;;

U.S. : DROUGHT.

PRESIDENTS STATEMENT.

WASHINGTON;* AugnW' 10.

Mr Hoover Announced . acute conditions broufehi: -A'boi'jti . : :hy the drought have been reported from np» proximately three hundred counties, with crops , almost completely ruined in most of them. In those areas the destruction of crops proceeded to a point beyond any great degree of recovery. Although the pasturage should improve it must be borne in mind that from a relief point of view, the burden of the problem in acute area will show very much more vividly over the winter than at 1 present ipomerit. I liaye received frorn all seittrons of tlie'' drought area ’high appreciation of the railways for .'ijliejr pfbfnpt corisifuctive action. Tin's notable!act of courageous co-operation "ji as undertaken in the face of a seriously reduced income' due to the depression., 1 -neo-.. <«•'!. /i; ■ y )•>-