U.S. DROUGHTS.
FARMERS LEAVE AREA. 100,000 MOVE AWAY. Many farmers of the prairie States caught between the economic forces of the depression and three major drought years in the past six years, have left that area, according to Works Progress Administration statistics. A study of the slightly more than (5,000,000 persons who comprise the farm population of tlic 10 drought States showed that at least 3,600,000 persons traded places in the industrial towns and on the farms, while 100,000 more moved away from sun-parched farms to agricultural communities in other States.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20081, 9 August 1937, Page 4
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91U.S. DROUGHTS. Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20081, 9 August 1937, Page 4
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