AMERICA’S COTTON
THREATENED DISASTER.
DESTRUCTION OP CROPS URGED.
(Received 9 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, August; 12.
The Federal Farm Board has taken drastic steps to stabilise cotton prices. It has telegraphed to the 14 Governors of the cottonrproducing States, urging them to give a lead to the movement to abandon much of the cotton now growing, and thus to eliminate the excess which threatens a direct disaster to the cotton-growing States.
The board has suggested that Avery third row of cotton should be immediately ploughed., , r . .
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Northern Advocate, 14 August 1931, Page 5
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