DROUGHT FEARED IN U.S.

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22306, 21 January 1938, Page 11

DROUGHT FEARED IN U.S.

♦ Winter Wheat Crop Threatened SUFFERING INCREASED BY DUST-STORMS (united press association— copyright.) (Received January 20, 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 20. A drought, similar to that of 193436 which laid barren large sections of land and cost farmers thousands of millions of dollars, is again spreading across the great plains from Texas to Canada, threatening the winter wheat crop, says the Washington correspondent of the New York "Herald-Tribune." The expected snow and rain have not arrived and some sections which bcdly need moisture are being abandoned. Unusually early dust-storms are adding to the suffering over a wide area, covering much of the central and southern great plains and extending eastward to the Mississippi 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.