NO FOOD SHORTAGE
Reassuring American Report EFFECTS OF DROUGHT By Telegraph—Press Assu. —Copyright. (Received August 14, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, August 13. Interviewed by the Press to-day, Mr. H. A. Wallace. Secretary of Agriculture, gave a reassurance that nothing in the nature of a food shortage would result from short crops. He said that, despite the drought, wheat production would be adequate for domestic needs, with higher prices probably inducing enough planting to provide 150,000.000 bushels of exportable surplus in 1937. This would probably reduce the world price by 20 to 30 cents a bushel. For the current year, he said, be did not expect imports of wheat and maize to exceed those for 1935. Answering a charge that the Administration’s curtailment programme was in part responsible for the situation, he said that actually there were more acres of wheat harvested this year than the 1928-32 average.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 274, 15 August 1936, Page 11
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146NO FOOD SHORTAGE Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 274, 15 August 1936, Page 11
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