The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-13
Profteers H West
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combined wheat, corn, oats, barley and rye crops at $2,059, 9,104, ,240 which was $297,744,622 more than in 1883.
 The A is planning for next years crop with care. Wallace is worried for fear the pendulum may swing too far back with the result that the surplus condition of the past few years will again be threat ened.
 The farm credit administration announced that 52,000 feed and forage loans totaling $4,40O,000 had been extended to farmers and stockmen in emergency drought areas. Demand for loans is now at the peak. Disbursements are run ming about $1,000,000 week. Pri- mary drought areas now include 1,057 counties including all of the Dakotas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah and Nevada.
 Heat Wave Cracked
 Chicago, Aug 13-UP)-The most severe heat wave of the hot test year in weather bureau annals was definitely cracked today by thunder showers over 15 states. Temperatures dropped at many points from above 100 degrees to below 70.
 Even where rain did not fall, clouds generally shielded the earth from the sun which for more than month has pushed temperatures to record heights almost daily.
 The rain, coming on the heels of widespread thunderstorms Friday and Saturday, even revived hope that an end of the drought which has robbed the country of its re- serve food supply might be in sight.
 Government weather forecasters, cannily qualifying their words but nevertheless optimistic, predicted more showers and ''seasonable" temperature today and tomorrow over much of the parched middle west.
 Rain fell today and last night in New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, lower Michigan Indiana, Kentucky, southern Illinois, northern Mis- Kansas, Oklahoma, eastern Colo rado and South Dakota. A gentle northeast breeze, many degrees cooler than the furnace blast that swept for days out of the blazing southwest, aided the showers in bringing the lowest temperatures in two months. Kan sas City, where 100 degrees has come to be regarded as common place. experienced it's second suc- cessive night of temperatures in the low seventies. In Chicago the mercury dropped to 72 and Me- braska, Iowa and the Dakotas chilled to 67 and 6S degrees. Memphis, Tenn, Aug 13-(UP) While almost every other section of farmland in the country mourned drought ruined crops, the mid-south today began harvesting | the best cotton crop in years. Fifteen cent cotton was a pos sibility for the first time since 1881. Prosperous days seemed as- sured for thousands Of farmers in western Tennesse, Alabama, Mis- sissippi. eastern Arkansas, south west Missouri, northeast Louisiana and extreme east Texas. The drought has not been severe | in this area 200 miles or more east, | west, north and south of Memphis, | worlds largest inland cotton ship | ping center, but the sun has not | been hot enough to curb the great enemy of cotton, the boil weevil 1 The farmer in the prosperity area" already is looking forward to a winter with 'store bought" clothes, new shoes for the family, ready-rolled cigarets and trip to the county fair.
 Scores of cotton pickers went into the fields today, but they were only the vanguard of the singing armies of Negroes who will begin stripping the dusty. stalks of their jewels within the next fortnight. The more unrelenting the | drought in the midwest and west Texas, the more money it will 1 mean for the mid-south.
 So jubilant were Memphis buy CTS over crop conditions in the sur rounding territory that the first bale of the season sold last week for 35 cents a pound. Last years first bale brought 15 cents.