DROUGHT IN AMERICA
Fertile Areas Laid Barren WHEAT THREATENED (Received January 20, 8.55 p.m.) New York, January 20. Drought, similar to that of 193436, which laid barren large sections of fertile land, and cost fanners 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 rain 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 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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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 99, 21 January 1938, Page 11
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