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Last August Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, surveying a map of 1,100 counties in 22 states burned crisp by Drought, remarked that a food shortage was not nearly so serious as a feed shortage. Last week the feed shortage had produced what looked very much like a food shortage. To be sure, there was enough wheat for bread, potatoes were plentiful and the fruit and vegetable crops were good. But for the first time in years consumption of beef and pork had practically overtaken supply...
...sugar under this or that barrier. At the start of this year the future was beclouded by 240,000 tons of sugar carried over from last year's quota. The U.S. had used less sugar than AAA expected because canning and preserving was curtailed by the Drought. But in the first four months of this year, the big Manhattan sugar house of Lamborn & Co. estimates, consumption ran some 13.5% ahead of the same period of 1934. And there is talk that AAA may have to raise its total quota of 6,280,000 short tons before the year...
...Spent $191,000,000 buying up crop surpluses, of which the two biggest items were $114,000,000 for drought cattle and $46,000,000 for hogs...
...wheat from 59? to 90?; corn from 39? to 85?; hogs 4? to 7.8?; beef cattle 4? to 5?-national farm income from the neighborhood of $4,000,000,000 to more than $6,000,000,000. Not even AAA claims responsibility for all these gains. Drought and dollar devaluation worked in the same direction...
Last week citizens of small Cherryfield, Me. & vicinity were being treated to a sight on a par with that of a king rummaging in a slop barrel. Some of last year's drought-starved Western cattle were shipped to Cherryfield. They failed to recuperate, left natives with a large number of ribby carcasses on their hands. Cherryfielders piled the hulks on wagons, carted them to a lonely spot well back from their Black Woods road, dumped them out to rot. Snow soon covered the charnel heap...