The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14
Livestock and Feed Schedules
Slash-Will Be Effective
At Once
SEED AID IS PROBABLE
Rains in Midwest Provide
Some Relief-Cattle to
Craze in Transit

areas stood out today as the first
large scale action for relief of
parched agricultural lands.
Special permission was obtained
today by the Northern Pacific Rail
road from the interstate commerce
commission to make instantly eff
fective some new privileges for
shippers of livestock in western
territory, who may seek to avoid
the effects of the drouth by moving
their herds.
The railroad in all the territory
from eastern Montana through
North Dakota and Minnesota pro-
poses to allow grazing and feeding
in transit privileges, by which herds
of cattle or f1ocks of sheep may be
stopped enroute for indefinite pc
RODS where feed is found and
moved onward when it is exhausted
without paying more than through
rates. - RI.
The schedules filed by the rail-
road are considered the best of sew
eral railroad proposals to. relieve
distress from drouth.
Rains, meanwhile, are providing
some relief in midwest areas, but
severe drouth conditions have been
unrelieved on a substantial basis" .
the United States weather: bureau
reported today. The northern corn
belt has had some help. . -;
Complaint Of an undue increase"
in prices of fresh vegetables and
other farm products was presented
to President Hoover today by Rep
resentative F. H. La .Guardia (rep.,
N. " who declared he has seen
a tendency to increase consumers
price of meat, butter. eggs vege-
tables and milk. He took his COM
plant to Secretary Arthur Hyde
after seeing the President ..r,...>
Government. relief plans, mean
while, marked time until tomor-
rows conference of governors
President Herbert Hoover wants
their suggestions and plans before
proceeding with any broad relief
measures. An idea of what line the
governors Recommendations may
take came in dispatches from cap
itals of some of the affected states
Governor John Hammill, Of Iowa,
leaving Des Moines for Washing
ton, said he favored immediate aid
to the 8 farmers in need, together
with arrangements through :. the
farm beard for seed for next years
planting and financing by the
board of a transfer of grains from
surplus sections to the: drouth
areas. 80: ..~,'..5 -: -: ]
In Kentucky, the agricultural
branch of the State Bankers Asso-
citation formulated with Governor
Elem D. Sampson plan based on
underwriting the tax bills Of drouth-
suffering farmers through federal
assistance. "a. - 80 !. -.
Expectations of relief continued
concentrated on government agen-
cies as weather forecasts, although
indicating showers for parts of the
dry area, promised no soaking
rains. ,.-.-
The railroad rate cuts have been
worked out between the roads and
the department of agriculture with
a safeguarding arrangement by
which farmers applications for spe-
cial rates will be certified to
railroad officials by county agricul-
tural agents. This was done in
hope of preventing speculative use
of the emergency schedules. ..~
The low rate is to go into effect
on roads operating to
and from drouth areas north of
the Ohio and east of the Mississippi
rivers. Within day or two, they
are expected to be extended to the
remainder of the dry regions.
President Hoover's continuing
close attention and active leader
ship in the relief movement was
assured, meanwhile, by his an
that his hoped-for
western vacation had been sacri-
feed to the exigencies of the situa-
ton.
Apart from the apparently grow
ing need of many farmers for as
sistance to tide them over the win
ter, considerable study was being
given to the set up of machinery
for giving sufferers a new start
next spring, with feed, supplies and
he necessary financing to carry
hem through the growing season.
Success in eradication of the
Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida
has resulted in an indirect aid to
he drouth states through removal
IT sterilization requirements for
shipping vegetables from the PENN
'ula state to all parts of the coun-
ry. Garden crops have been wiped
,ut in some areas. The require
nents were lifted also from citrus
ruit for shipment to the middle
vest and northwest but continued
IN group of Is southern and west
.rn states.
AUGUST CROP REPORT
While Minnesota Jared better
han it's neighboring states to the
outh and west the yield prospects
or crops in the state show a decline
rom one month ago, wheat and
anne hay excepted according to the
Federal State Crop Reporting Ser
rice. The late planted crops, corn
md potatoes, suffered severely from
he drOuth, as well as the late DOR