AMERICA'S WHEAT
PESSIMISTIC OUTLOOK A FAMINE PREDICTED NEW YORK, Sept. 25 A message from Topeka, Kansas, states that Mr. E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers' Association, issued a warning that a wheat famine threatens the United States. "Should the great wheat belt suffer another drought or a war break out in Europe I bate to think what inieht happen," he said. American farmers should be urged to increase their wheat acreage rather than reduce it, so that the nation could get back to a self-sufficient basis. Mr. Smiley said he believed the United States would be forced to import at leatit 75,000,009 bushels of wheat between now and the next harvest for domestic needs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22225, 27 September 1935, Page 11
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