FARMERS: Drought & Dollars

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In many & many a section last week from Northern Texas to Canada, from the Catskills to the Rockies, young farmers had to ask their fathers when there had been a drought to beat the one of June 1933. Answer: 1930. Nevertheless in Indiana there were cracks in the earth an inch wide. Motorists in Grundy County, Illinois, saw chinch bugs in ribbons 100 ft. wide in the roads. The bugs were eating their way from field to field. North Dakota's drought brought out a destructive swarm of grass- hoppers....

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