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...Damned Rubes." Last week Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board grew explosively irate because husbandmen were slow to substitute wheat for corn feed. Declared...
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...
President Hoover last week took up the kind of national problem with which he knows best how to deal. A drought,* worst since the Civil war, was upon the east and midwest (see p. 15). Husbandmen across a checkerboard of devastation faced immense crop and livestock losses. President Hoover could not bring rain, but he could and did organize relief agencies
Washington last week took recognizance of the drought, then nearly two months old. President Hoover recalled Secretary of Agriculture Hyde from a western trip, announced that the Federal Government would "leave no stone unturned" to give assistance to stricken husbandmen. With experienced directness the President took charge personally. Rapidly assembled at his order were Department of Agriculture reports by field agents on the exact location and degree of drought damage. Hardest hit apparently were Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia. Montana, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska. President Hoover summoned the governors of these twelve states to a White House conference...
...drought came too late to affect the wheat crop but it did, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, "much irreparable damage" to corn. Live stock, lacking pasturage and water, was rushed to slaughter houses before it died. The Farm Board prepared plans for "drought loans" to carry husbandmen over until next year...