The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-18
HEAVY PURCHASING
IN DR0UT'H AREAS
TO START AT once
Relief Administration Considers
'Transplanting' 5000 S.
D. Families
HOPKINS ANNOUNCES PLAN
Says Relief Administration viii
Handle Transaction for
Farm Department
HOPKINS ANNOUNCES PLAN

purchases of cattle in drought areas
OF the north central west and pos
sible transplanting Of 5000 to 1000
South Dakota families are included
IN the program for relief Of the dry
sections Of North and South Daokta,
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The federal surplus relief corpora
ton, Harry L. Hopkins, emergency re-
lief administrator, said, will start
buying cattle Immediately from farm
ers on relief rolls or those In distress
Within the next three weeks he ex-
poets to take the entire surplus In the
area. The corporation will do the
buying for the agricultural adjust
ment administration.
In South Dakota, where there are
hundreds Of farms which have not
yielded good living for their own
ers in years, Hopkins said, from 5000
to 1000 families might be moved to
state-owned farms and given q chance
to buy them on reasonable terms. The
state owns approximately 1000 farms
The immediate cattle purchasing
program will be intensified In four
states. Hopkins said. but Will not nee
essarily be confined to them. Other
potential drought areas or sections
where there has been no rain in rec
ent months will be included eventual
~.
win Can Beef
Beef from healthy cattle will be
canned and distributed to persons
on relief rolls.
This job must be DONE Hopkins
said. 1T is ridiculous to continue
feeding these cattle. We cannot get
the hay II we wanted to. We will be
operating next week for the AAA."
Allotments have been made, Hop
kins said, for planting quick growing
forage crops at once, adding that, Of
course the administration was taking
q chance on rain.
The farm credit administration.
Hopkins said, has assured the relief
administration that, 50 far . the
law permits, rules and regulations re-
garding loans will be relaxed to the
limit. Hopkins estimated the cost Of
direct relief, aside from the AAA cat
tie purchases, would run about IS
100000 q month until the drought
is broken.
The only really critical condition 1T
this time, he said, Is the central part
OF the two Dakotas and parts Of Min
nesota and Wisconsin. Rain is ur-
gently needed in large sections Of Wis
conSin, Minnesota, Montana and Wy
oming. although the situation is not
yet critical.
A new complication in the drought
situation was advanced Friday by q
conference Of entomologists In their
report that chino bugs and grasshop-
pers were appearing.
Other items in q viewpoint program
for drouth relief, tentatively adopted
Friday, were:
!. More cash grants to affected
states.
2. Extension Of seed and feed loans
from $40 900 900 available to the farm
credit administration.
3. Shipping Of some livestock from
the area and livestock feed into It at
reduced freight rates.
4. Relaxation Of the regulations
against planting forage crops.
While the presidents drouth COM
mittee rushed Its plans, bill to pro-
vide $50, 000, 900 for relief to the cat
tie and dairy industry in general un-
der the Jones cattle relief oct was
halfway through congress. The APP
preparation bill, which passed the
house Thursday, would furnish IN
estimated 500, 900 900 for the dairy
and livestock industries and $50yO00,-
600 to buy cattle not suitable for
breeding. These cattle would be used
for emergency relief purposes.
The farm administration, farm
credit administration and Hopkins,
are to designate certain counties in the
drouth area for immediate action.
The first Of these will be in North and
South Dakota.