U.S. FEARS DROUGHT
South and West Suffer Again
WASHINGTON, April 23.
Fear of another disastrous drought was expressed by ( Mr 11. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, in a report to day, indicating that several western and southern States of a total area embracing 30,000,000 acres, were in the grip of a severe spring.
The dry-spell records of the 1934 drought, the most severe in the country’s history, have been broken in some localities. From certain sections of lowa, where precipitation was 26 per cent, of the normal, it dropped to two per ceut. of the normal.
In certain portions of North and South Dakota, only heavy rains in May and June would, it was believed, save 'he situation.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 8
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