PERIL OF WHEAT LANDS.
Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, the wheat-growing provincs of Canada, are faced with a terrible problem. Parts of them hjive had no rain for five years. The humus has been dried out of the soil, once so rich, and left it powdery dust, which blows in futile fashion as the wind lists. Horses and cattle in these provinces have never felt cool rain on their backs, not have ever eaten rainwashed pasture. In the dry soil plagues of grasshoppers have been born, and have spread to eat away the little green left in an arid world.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1934, Page 17 (Supplement)
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99PERIL OF WHEAT LANDS. Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1934, Page 17 (Supplement)
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