AMERICAN DROUGHT
SOME STATES SUFFER BADLY
OTHERS HAVE GOOD CROPS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 21st August, 2 p.m.) CHICAGO, 20th August. A survey of conditions in the drought areas has revealed stories of poverty and acute suffering in many families. Many cases were disclosed of actual starvation and severe privation, as well as numerous acts of charity by neighbours whose crops were spared. Van Buren County, Arkansas, reported 151): families wholly destitute. The main picture in Arkansas is one of dejection and helplessness. Crops ar» burned up and water exhausted. Farmers are rushing their livestock to market before it dies of thirst. Cash-is low, and farmers can do little, to help themselves.
Farms in Montana are yielding five bushels of wheat per acre. M'LaiCounty, Oklahoma, reports that 75 per cent, of farmers are without stock feed. The banks are able to finance only 10 per cent, of the requirement* for, fall feed and pasture planting. The Eastern Dakotas and Minnesota have tbe best crops for.four years, and are expecting good profits, due to higher, prices on account of the drought.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 45, 21 August 1930, Page 10
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