DROUGHT HAVOC.
AMERICAN FARM LAND. WASHINGTON, July 10. The Government’s preliminary survey of drought damage throughout the nation shows that an area equal to Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, -and Connecticut combined of formerly good farm land is now useless for the cultivation of crops because of gullyerosion. Out of 1,003,000,000 acres observed 50,000,000 acres arc thus affected, in addition to the top soil having been washed from 125,000,000 more acres and 100,000,000 acres suffering from a similar trend. The Weather Bureau states that the drought’s hack is broken and forecasts scattered showers and generally cooler weather, except in northern Nebraska and Kansas, where rises in temperature are expected. Meanwhile wheat prices were forced upward five cents at Kansas City and 4| cents at Chicago with the reports that millers were buying all available wheat. Another stimulus was a report that the Canadian crop was deteriorating rapidly.
The immense area of the United States affected by the drought is difficult to appreciate from the cabled statistics, but au indication can he gained when it is recalled that the area of New Zealand is 66,390,196 acres, of which 43,104,559 acres are at present in occupation, exclusive of boroughs and holdings under one acre.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 202, 17 July 1936, Page 10
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