DROUGHT FEARED
STATES OF AMERICA REPORT BY MINISTER WIDE AREA AFFECTED By Telegraph—.Press Association —Copyright (Received April 23. f>.ls p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 22 Fears of another disastrous drought were expressed by the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry A. Wallace, to-day in a report indicating that several western and southern States, of a total area embracing 30,000,000 acres, are in the grip of a severe spring dry spell. The records of the 1934 drought—the most severe in the country's history—have been broken in some localities. In certain sections of lowa precipitation is 26 por cent of normal and it has dropped to 2 per cent of normal in certain portions of North and South Dakota. Only heavy rain in May and June will save the situation, it is believed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 15
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