SEVERE DUST STORMS
FINAL BLOW TO CROPS
HAVOC IN UNITED STATES
DARKNESS IN DAYTIME
NO VISIBILITY IN PLACES
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 11.10 p.m. New York, April 10. The official Federal' Department _of Agriculture reports on the crop situation received from Washington state that in the 10 States chiefly affected by the drought and dust over 40 per cent, of the winter wheat seeded last autumn is expected to fail, a large proportion of the acreage being abandoned. Western Kansas farmers to-day gave up hopes for the wheat crop. A new dust storm, more dense and destructive than the dozens that have already swept their fields, killed what vegetation remained.- Moreover, it extended to western Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas.
Residents at Dighton did not know when the dawn came to-day, so thick was the dust, while at Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle, dust flowed over the plains almost like water. In certain other towns visibility fell to zero.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1935, Page 5
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