DROUGHT IN AMERICA.
WINTER WHEAT DAMAGED. FOUR STATES AFFECTED. (Received November 13, 9.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Nor. 12. The Red Cross Society announces that a sum of £200,000 is required for the aid of drought victims in Montana and North Dakota.
Simultaneously the Weather Bureau reports that a new drought is causing unestimatcd but apparently considerable damage to winter wheat growth in western Kansas, north-west Oklahoma and large areas of Texas and Colorado. What little grain lias sprouted in the dry soil in those States has been badly patched.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21030, 14 November 1931, Page 11
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