Daily rainfall in the area lying between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes has been less than 20 per cent. of normal during this Period, according to Weather Bureau reports.
Streams and springs all over the Grought territory have dried up an lack of water is wreaking havoc with livestock in a dozen states, Gaunt, half-starved cattle were being rushed to market by many railroads to-day, and the markets were glutted with cattle and hogs in Chicago, Omaha and other stockyards centres, Pri livestock, however, were unobiainable in any market, The wheat market continued to soar on the Board of Trade, yester~ day, crashing through a dollar bushel for the frst time since June, 1933, but _one-dollar wheat brought Uttle cheer to thousands of farmers, whose crops are burning up before their eyes. and who will have no wheat to sell.
Thirty-Ave states from the Rocky affected.
Mountains to New England, are
The rainfall in Towa, Nebraska, mois, Indiana and Ohio ts the 1o% jest on record. These states are certain to lose half of their normal crops, even if rain comes within the next fortnight, and conditions in ten, will the smallest years.
temperature of 111 degrees was recorded to-day at ripened rapidly, cat ing farmers in 'Oklahoma and' Kansas hasten harvesting.
Statisticians are of the opinion that one-third of the crop in Towa lies Uungerminated in the sell.
Generous steps have been announced by the Federal Government and some state governments to afford relief to the tarmers,—Reute Chicago, June 2.
The mid-continental drought companied by heat that turned thi section into a vast furnace has taken 4 toll of at least 40 lives in addition the millions of dollars loss to crops, United Press survey revealed to-'The grain is visible burning up in large sections of the mid-west and Cust storms, insect plagues, and other troubles have beset the entire west—
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