America May Face Wheat Famine
MAY ‘HAVE TO IMPORT HUGE QUANTITIES
United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrlgh t. Received Wednesday, 9.50 p.m. TOPEKA (Kansas), Sept. 24.
Mr E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers’ Association, issued a warning that a grain famine threatened the United States. Should the great wheat belt suffer another drought and a war break out in Europe, he hated to think what might happen. Ho said American farmers should be urged to increase their wheat acreage rather than reduce it, so that the nation could get back on a self-sufficient basis. He believed the United States would he forced to import at least 75,000,000 bushels between now and next harvest for domestic needs.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 227, 26 September 1935, Page 7
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