WHEAT POSITION
REPORTED SEVERE DROUGHT
(Received sth August, 11 a.m.)
CHICAGO, 4th August,
Mr. Legge, chairman of the Farm Board, reports that severe drought conditions have given rise to an emergency warranting the use of low-priced wheat as live stock feed. He said the severe drought had caused a shortage of regular feed for cattle and-swine, and he suggests that relief of the overstocked wheat supplies by this method.
(Received sth August, 11.30 a.m.)-* WASHINGTON, 4th August. Mr. Louis Taber, master of the National Grange, has informed the President, Mr. Hoover, that a catastrophe is facing the drought-stricken .farms in areas east of the Mississippi unless there is rain soon. Mr. Taber urged the Government to consider measures ,to afford aid in the present situation.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 31, 5 August 1930, Page 12
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WHEAT POSITION
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 31, 5 August 1930, Page 12
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