The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
YEARS WHEAT
CROP TO net
HALF BILLION
Biggest Return Since 1929
Is Expected by Trade
Experts
TABLE NECESSITIES
ADVANCE SHARPLY

SliSASO.b July y. W.T.
Even with many thousands of
acres of the cron killed by the
drouth, heat and insects, the AM
erican farmer stands to receive
approximately $608,000,000 for
his 1886 wheat crop, which is
more than the nations wheat has
returned since 1929. grain statis-
ticians reported today.
They also computed that q
record high price for wheat per
bushel will pay farmers their big
gest wheat dividends in the past
seven years.
KANSAS CITY, July 9. CUP
The drought began to reach
the pocketbooks of the American
housewife. The increase in COM
modify prices was not great but
the threat of sharp upturns, in cost
Of table necessities was real and
"
Already It is noted in the veg
etable markets where scarcity of
produce is skyrocketing prices Of
eggs and butter. Milk probably
will follow: Ham and bacon pric-
es also climbed. .a ..,...,
CHICAGO, July 8. (UP)-Heat
so intense that it, burst highways
and killed livestock in barnyards
swept from the parched Western
prairies over the East today. X,
Conservative estimates support
ed by Government, preparations
for. relief placed irreparable prop
erty damage in the II. states most
affected by 81 rainless days and
terrific heat ct more than $1,000
100000 toll and the lives neared
200. a.. ....-..
Sultry clouds produced periodic
blasts of rain or wind and rain too
light to help the hundreds Of mil
lions of dollars worth of crops
near destruction and the wind
was tearing dry leaves and stalks
to shreds. 1 -. ,.. e., g..
Rain was forecast today for
the blistered plains Of the Dako-
tas, Northwestern Minnesota and
Northwestern Nebraska.
The drought that is whitening
the West began last night to pinch
at the pocketbooks of all persons
who buy food. M
Threats of price rises came first
in dairy products with increases
of a cent q quart in milk predict
ed in Kansas City and Indiana
polls.
Two gloomy men-2,000 miles
apart - stood in Eastern and
Western boundaries of the
drought area. Neither had any
hope in his heart. Tom Moody,
North Dakota WPA administrator,
stood in the tower of the state
capitol at Bismarck and said the
drought was worse than the one
in 1884 and was causing more
damage than anything in the
memory Of the oldest pioneer. At
Albany, N. Y, Peter G. Ten
Eyck, state agriculture commits
sioner, said crop production was
so per cent below normal in many
sections of the state and that ris-
es in food prices were inevitable.
Between these two men stretch
ed the drought area with Q crop
damage consecratively estimated
at s18O,0O0,0O0. Unless there is
rain within four days the damage
can 20 to $S50,000,0 900. Already
179 lives have been lost to the
heat, some from prostration,
some from drownings in cases
where people Aocked to water for
relief.
The Federal Government racing
its relief machinery to full speed,
promised to put $4,000 : families
on it's payrolls in the next "a
hours, within two weeks, Wash
ineton announced, that figure
would be raised to $1,000. !; The
resettlement administration al
located $4,000 for emergency
work.
But it was from another Fed
eral agency-the Westher Bureau
that drought sufferer s drew
more consolation.
Showers were predicted for the
Dakotas, Northwestern Mime
sofa and Northwestern Nebraska,
and at Minot, N. D., there was a
gentle rain that measured two
tenths Of an inch. It relieved the
temperature, but it was
feared there was insufficient
moisture to help crops.
From reports Of United Press
correspondents. who are moving
through the arid section it is
possible to reconstruct the picture
Of the drought area that Q giant
in seven-league boots would get
if he strobe across the country,
to talk with farmers.
He would start in North Dako-