DROUGHT SPREADING.
AMERICAN LAND BARREN. NEW YORK, Jan. 20. Drought similar to that of 193436, which laid barren large sections of fertile land, and cost farmers thousands of millions of dollars, is again spreading across the great plain from Texas to Canada, threatening the winter wheat, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune. The expected snow and rnjn have not arrived, and some sections which badly need moisture are being abandoned. Unusually early dust-storms are adding to suffering over a wide area, covering much of the central and southern great plains, extending eastward to the Mississippi River and westward to the Rocky Mountains. It is feared that the Department of Agriculture may be compelled to abandon crop control and encourage further planting of wheat and maize.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1938, Page 7
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128DROUGHT SPREADING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1938, Page 7
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