AMERICAN DROUGHT

Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 August 1930, Page 9

AMERICAN DROUGHT

LATE EDITION

WHEAT CROP MENACED HUGE LOSS PREDICTED FEDERAL SURVEY TO RE MADE. 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received 12.45 p.m., to-day. WASHINGTON, August 5. President Hoover announced on Tuesday that no stone would be left unturned by the Government to assist the distress caused by the unprecedented drought in a. wide area east of the Mississippi and in the Middle West, and that a survey would be made. A Kansas City message states that the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture (Mr. Arthur Hyde), addressing t lie Mid-West Retail Merchants’ Asosciation on Tuesday, expressed the belief that the disposal of the large wheat carry-over might be speeded by the drought damage to the corn He said that recent estimates placed the- corn loss at 220,000,C00 bushels, and he indicated that his department believed that the loss might approach 500,000.000 bushels. This would offset the over-supply of wheat, achieving a rough balance. He add- , ed that- his department was stressing value of wheat as a stock ration.