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...Texas, the corn crop was already made. Cotton was not hurt very much by heat. But grain sorghums were in danger. Cattle were being fed on silage. Said the Dallas News: "Unless the drought and heat are broken within a week, the crop and livestock situation could become serious. . . ." The onetime dust bowl got a good rain. But June-filled water holes in trie Panhandle were drying up; feed and water for livestock were scarce...
...about 57% of normal. Peanuts were expected to be a total loss. Wheat was less than half of last year's production (29 million bu. v. 61 million bu.). Pastures and stock ponds dried up, made the feed shortage so acute that many cattlemen were sending their livestock to market ahead of schedule...
...years with BAI, John Mohler had" become the archetype of thousands of Government workers who serve their country well, grinding away at their jobs, oblivious of politicians and political upheavals. He had done more than any other American to rid the country of the dread diseases that plague livestock-bovine tuberculosis, foot-& -mouth disease, cattle tick fever and Bang's disease. So doing he had helped raise the whole standard of health...
...answer to A. P.'s booming small-loan business (the bank had 3,000,000 borrowers averaging loans of $300 apiece between 1935 and 1941). Wente has worked in a score of the small country and city banks that are now cashing in for A. P., knows farm, livestock and small .business problems. As his boss puts it, "he knows a lot more about banking than any city banker." From A. P., who hates Wall Street and hoity-toity big business almost more than he hates the New Deal, there can be no higher praise...
...have been running as much as 40% below last year-with the bulk going to the armed forces. But last week, on the Western ranges, kept green and thick by heavy spring rains, the grass was finally starting to dry up. Soon ranchers will have to start feeding their livestock grain, which is almost impossible to get, or send their herds off to market. This set the stage for a record stampede...