Immense Areas Affected.

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 72, 26 March 1935, Page 7

Immense Areas Affected.

Kansas City, March 2g. The drought damage in the south-weßtern states runs into millions of dollars. It embraces abandoned home 3, half-starved herdß of aattle.and dust-smothered crops. A day of prayer was held on Monday, the farmers beseeching general rain to check the ravages of sun and wind. Mr. Hubert L. Collins, of Denver, a statistician in the United States Department of Agriculture sayß that thousands of acres of land in Colorado will be useleßS for farming or grazing for n hundred years.- Other crop experts pcint to the immense loss caused owing to dust in the wheat fields. Mr. Collins predicts, on the basis of the present outlook, the most complete crop failure in the history of the' Eastern Colorado, Wyoming, Western Kansas, Nebraska and Texas sections. In some sections the cattle refuse to eat what green feed is available owing to the dust and sand it contains. The damage to motorcars and power driven farm equipment 1b extremely heavy owing to sand and grit that has worked its way into the engines. AVIATION IN AUSTRALIA;. The tremendous development of aviation in Australia is revealed in the 1934- report of the Controller of Civil Aviation, Captain Johnston. Mail traffic and air mileage vastly increased in the past two yearsi There is also a considerable increase in aircraft traffic in the goldfield services in Few Guinea where-there are now 28 landing grounds.