U.S.A. FARMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1937, Page 10

U.S.A. FARMS

DUST STORM. RAVAGES, [BY CABLE—PBIWS...■..■NEW. YORK, February 17. • A' message from. Guymon (Oklahoma) states- that a second storm of black 'dust, swept -Oklahoma ;and the Panhandle (Texas), farmers ' assembled. . giant chisel; ploughs, and. tenracers ’.to. groove the shifting;., top -soil Into hard ridges. Wheat.blew out m many places. -• ■ Meanwhile red ..dust struck Texas, coastal and Rio Grand valley cities for the. first timq in two years. Light rains settled' the dust, M the Texas Panhandle, the. Eastern Rord(?K. and'.. New Mexico. The winds have • subsided -. in' most .of yestein ■Kansas; and all over Oklahoma, but not in the Panhandle.. \ -y, -

OWNERSHIP dwindling: - WASHINGTON, .February 17. ’ In a message to Congress with the report, of. a special,, committee. on farm tenancy, President Roosevelt said: “Less than'half the iiatioifs farmers fawn, the .farm&' they are- - operating. About 4(1000 farmers are added each 'year to tlie tenant, class. Prompt ac-tion-is-'necessary to'correct-.-this evil. WJien .'fully liklf =W ’ farm population dd ipnger feels .secure_.and ’when mil-iiohs^ef-our people, have lost their roots in soil,-action to'provide security is. impeiiatiye;’-. ..