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...slogging across gummy fields. To them nothing felt better than a thorough soaking to the skin. Let it rain! Let it fall! Let it keep on falling! One inch, two inches, three inches, four inches, five inches in parts of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio! Let it break Drought's brazen back! People would again have water to wash their dusty faces. Cattle would again have water to drink. In some places rain would save the remainder of the corn crop. If it kept up, forage crops could be sown in ruined grain fields to help feed cattle during...
...Economic Conference last year the International Wheat Conference salvaged and signed an export quota agreement which acts of the Almighty have greatly assisted its signatories to keep (TIME, Sept. 11). Of the Big Four signatories?U.S., Argentina, Canada and Australia?only Argentina has wholly escaped the searing blight of drought, and last week only Argentina had broken her agreement, exporting 34,000,000 more bushels of wheat than the 110,000,000 she accepted as her limit. Even so drought has struck savagely enough to keep the Big Four from exceeding their combined quota of 462,000,000 bushels...
Last week statistical experts at the American Institute of Food Distribution sat down with their slide rules to answer a question which has troubled businessmen all summer: How much will drought reduce the income of U. S. farmers? As if unable to believe what it had discovered, the Institute tucked its findings into the inside pages of an obscure food pamphlet. Hardly had it been published before the Wall Street Journal and Dun & Bradstreet hastened to confirm the Institute's opinions, and huge, conservative Standard Statistics Co. Inc. rumbled into print with facts and figures. Off the slide rules...
...farmers in and out of the drought area, the reasons were as plain as a pig's snout. For corn farmers will get double last summer's prices. For livestock, poultry and dairy products, which constitute the bulk of farm income, they can expect to realize nearly $700,000,000 more than last year...
Farmers whose crops have been ruined by drought will nonetheless receive a small income from relief funds plus their normal share of the $500,000,000 crop reduction payments...