THREAT OF FAMINE.
AMERICAN WHEAT CROP. TOPEKA Sept. 2-1. Mr. E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers’ Association, has issued a warning that a grain famine is threatened in the United States. Should the great wheat belt suffer another drought, or war break out in Europe, lie hated to think what might happen. He said that American farmers should bo urged to increase their wheat acreage rather than to reduce it so that the nation could get hack on to a self-sufficient basis. He believed that the United States would be forced to import at least 75,000,000 bushels between now and the next harvest fop domestic needs.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 7
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109THREAT OF FAMINE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 7
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