WHEAT CROPS RUINED
HOPES OF KANSAS FARMERS GONE. ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE DUST STORM. TEN STATES ALREADY BADLY A FFECTED. fU-P. A. hv F.leo Tel. (Received April 11, 10.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 10. An official Federal Department of Agriculture report on the crop situation received front Washington stated that in ten States chiefly affected by drought and dust, over 40 per cent-, of the winter wheat seeded lastautumn is expected to fail and a large proportion of the 'acreage is being abandoned. Western Kansas farmers to-day gave up hopes for the wheat crop. A new dust storm, more dense and more destructive than the dozens that have already swept their fields, tugged at what vegetation remained.. Moreover, it extended to Western Oklahoma, and in the Texas panhandle. Residents at Dighton did not know when the dawn came to-day, so thick was the dust, while at Amarillo in the Texas panhandle, dust flowed over the plains almost like water. In certain other towns visibility fell to zero.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12527, 12 April 1935, Page 5
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