Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weather. Despite scattered showers August failed to produce sufficient rainfall to break the drought as it did in 1901. Weather Bureau statistics indicated that the 1930 drought in duration and area was worse than the record-breaker of 29 years...
Corn. Five-year average U. S. corn production: 2,700,000,000 bu. For July 1 the Department of Agriculture estimated the U. S. crop at 2,800,000,000 bu. A month later the drought had reduced this estimate to 2,200,000,000 bu. This week the Department prepared to issue its Sept. 1 estimates. Private estimators figured that the crop will then show about 1,950,000,000 bu. Declared Secretary Hyde last week: "As prospects have declined markedly since Aug. 1, the total deficit at this time (Sept. 1) is no doubt considerably larger." Secretary Hyde...
Farm Incomes. The drought, economists agreed, will reduce individual incomes among husbandmen whose crops had been burned out, possibly produce severe hardship in large areas, but will proportionately benefit others who will get higher prices for their produce as a result of shortages. From the perspective of New York and Chicago, the 1930 farm income, while geographically uneven, appeared likely to average about the same as in previous years. At Des Moines fortnight ago Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board declared...
...While the damage has been serious [along] the Ohio river, in parts of the Rocky Mountain region, in Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and certain of the southern states, the drought has not been serious in the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys...
Fortnight ago, the International Association of Game, Fish and Conservation commissioners met in Toronto, recommended that the duck shooting season be shortened this year. Because of the drought only 50% of usual number of ducklings were hatched...