Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07

AS you look over these figures you win see
a number of States whose corn and hay crops
as early as August promised to be less than
half an average crop. Little rain fell the first
10 days of August IN this area. Further crop
deterioration from the August figures must
be expected I have already mentioned the
devastation the drought has done to pastures.
Only heavier than normal rainfall from now
on through the FAN win restore much OF the
pasture Tor FAN use.
When a livestock RrUwer faces q drastic cut
in his supplies 0f corn. hay and pasture, the
three major ingredients IN tine livestock Fation
he 10 In q bad way. n tine situatiOn isn't Inn
proved, the consumer win ultimately feel the
effects.
Gauged by any standard Of value the live
stock Of the Nation is, next TO the land itself,
our greatest asset. To every one of US live
stock means milk and meat. To the farmer
live stock means milk meat and power-a
method OF marketing crops and a large source
Of income. shortage I'm corn, hay and pasture
is a direct threat 70 every kind Of live stock
Such stock must be kept on the farm. To
force upon the market our foundation live
stock would be q calamity of major propor-
tiOrs. Panic selling would wreck the business
Of many thousands OF farmers and would re-
suit In q costly shortage next year.
A PART from the human suffering, the short
age of feed for live stock Is the most seri-
Gus consequence OF the drought A surplus OF
412y O00ge00 bushels OF wheat must be stretched
70 meet q shortage IN normal feed requirements
Of 404 ,O00,O0O bushels OF other grains. More
shan that, this wheat must also do duty for
the critical shortage I'm pasture and the
1900 OO0-ton shortage Of hay. The hay short
age, after allowing for carry overs, is equivalent
10 $4,000 600 bushels Of corn. The pasture
shortage is hard to express IN terms of corn
but pasture losses are easily equal TO more than
SO,O0O,O0O bushels Of corn.
The feed situation, then, Is this: Four hun
xared and twelve million bushels Of wheat must
do duty for q shortage In grain crops OF 49,
WCO,0Uo bushels, plus a shortage In hay equal
70 5e.Oo0,o00 plus q shortage In pasture equal
% 'SO,OO0,0o0 bushels or GA 5000, coo bushels in
an. These ngures are based on domestic use
only and upon the assumption that no exports
whatever for the remainder Of the present crop
year win be made.
Putting It in another form and quoting from
our recent crop report: ''The tonnage of corn,
oats, barley and grain sorghuns now indicated
shows q total of % ,942 900 tons, compared with
OF more than 15y0o0,000 tons of feed grains.
TO this add the shortage of l2,O00,o 600 tons of
hay and millions Of acres OF pasture
The feed grain supply sums up this way: Our
August forecasts estimate q total crop OF corn,
0atS barley. rye and grain sOrghunls combined
Of 3,oe9 00O, 600 bushels. We had q carry over
en- August / OF 1890 900 bushels Of these
grains. Our gross supply for the rest OF 1880
and the first half of 1891 therefore, aggregates
A,O5l 100000 bushels. From this total must be
deducted 263, coo, 600 bushels for 1891 seed re-
quirements and carry over This leaves us with
q total available supply for all purposes of
3.7ss GEO 600 bushels Of feed grains other than
wheat.
In an average year we consume, according
10 the average for 1925-29, 1922 900 900 bush