Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1930, Page 4

T A A—4 .o SHINGTON, D. ¢, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1930. HUSBAND TO ASK DIVORCE THE_EVENING STAR, W pasture and an estimated_shortage of | Ing to §94.000,000 bushels. Thus 1t:ap- | will be met as Americans meet their | facts of this drought. In this effort we | dress There Is Plenty of Food to Go Around. Again emphasizing that there “is | plenty of food to go around,” Arthur| M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, said | in a radio address last night that the critical aspect of the drought situation lles “in the threat of want or bank- Tuptey to many thousands of farm fam- illes in the first instance, and in the ¢ after effects of the crop shortage upon | the whole Nation.” Speaking in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Washington | Star and broadcast over the coast-to- | coast network of the Columbia Bfoad- casting System, Mr. Hyde said there would be & shortage of some foods and in some instances an increase in food prices might be expected. | Expressing the hope that “the proper local authorities” will be moved to pre- vent any threatened profiteering, Secre= tary Hvde roundly scored “the speed with which- some dealers have moved | to increase prices to consumers.” Foodstuff Losses Most Serious. “They would be more admirable,” he said, “if it could be shown that they | ; had or would exercise the same zeal in | decreasing prices in normal times.” He added, however, that “no exhorbitant increases in such prices” are indicated | by _the situation Enormous losses in feedstuff for cat- tle and live stock constitute the most | serious aspect of the situation, he said. | Quoting from the Agrioulture Depart- | _ment's latest crop report. he said that | “the tonnage of corn, oats, barley and grain sorgbum now indicated shows a total of 92,000,000 tons, as_compared | with a five-year average of 108,000,000 | tons, a drop of over 15,000,000 tons | in the feed grains alone.” “This statement,” he said, “bare as| 1t 15, points o the necessity of using | the utmost economy in conserving our supply of feeds for live stock.” Refers to Conference. Referring to the White House Con- ference of Governors, which yesterday met with President Hoover to lay down a relief program for the States which | have suffered most, Mr. Hyde said that | the drought problem is individual and that the individual problem would be the conference. “‘Generally speaking,” he said, “either feed must be gotten to the live stock, or the live stock must be gotten to the ‘feed.” The human side of the problem, he said, is presented by the farm fam- | ilies. “Tens of thousands of them have | had their entire savings swept away,” he said, “their very economic existence Jeopardized. =~ Millions of them have suffered great damage.” Text of Address. ‘The text of Secretary Hyde's address follows: The long-continued drought has ar- rested the attention of the whole Na- tion. In duration and severity, as well as in the extent of the area affected and the deficlency in rainfall, this drought is the worst of which we have nni‘ record. a general way, the area most af- fected ins on the Atlantic Sea- board with vm and part of Mary- land, sweeps gh est Virginia AYDE SUMMARIZES || DROUGHT SITUATION | Emphasizes in Forum Ad-| SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE HYDE. —Harris-Ewing Photo. taking In parts of Louisiana and Mis- sissippi. 8o severe is the drought that our August crop forecast shows a loss up to August 1 of 590.000,000 of bushels of corn, with another hundred mil- lion loss indicated between August 1 and August 11. Pastures were 5o dry and burned that the condition figure for the whole Nation was put at 36.4 | the lowest on record. ‘The hay crop shows a loss of 12,000,- 000 tons over the average production of the five years, 1924 to 1928. Other Large Losses. ‘There have been enormous losses in other directions. Many thousands of acres of gardens and truck patches have suffered. Short pastures have curtailed the milk supply and are _enforcing Jarger and earlier feeding of grain to both dairy and beef animals. There is some shrinkage in the supply of vegetables, These facts have caused many 2 housewife to fear a shortage of food or an exorbitant increase in the price of food. There is no occasion to fear any serious shortage of food for human_consumption. -assured plenty of food to go around. ‘There will be a shortage in the supply of some foods, and, following the oper- ation of the law of supply and demand, there may be expected some increases in the prices of some foods. The speed with which some dealers have moved to increase prices to con- sumers has been worthy of note, They would be more admirable if it could be shown that they had or would exercise the same zeal in decreasing prices dur- ing normal times. No_exorbitant in- creases in such_prices is indicated by the situation. 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Such stock must be kept on the farm. To force upon the market our founda- tion live stock would be a calamity of major proportions. Panic selling of live stock would wreck the business of many thousands of farmers and would result in a shortage next year. The great losses in corn, hay and pastures have materially shortened the supply of feeds usually used for live stock, Re- sort must be had to other feeds if the live stock is to be kept on the farms. ‘The situation from a feed standpoint is briefly this: On the basis of present estimates a surplus of 412,000,000 bushels of wheat must be stretched to meet a shortage in normal feed requirements of 494, 000,000 bushels of other grain. This wheat also_must meet the shortage of e e Usllier Jun COLUMBIA RD. ar I8 ST, BPPOSITE AMBASSADOR, TONIGHT Dinners: _ROA DUCKLIN D CHICKEN, 1.0! i 8pecial ST H#BROILE! cLUB HSTEAK . fopgeial Club Plate : ose Not Desiring ALWAYS AMPLE PARKING SPACE COLUMBIA 5042 . | ments for human food, for seed and for 12,000,000 tons of hay. The shortage | in hay, after allowing for carry-overs, is equivalent to 50,000,000 bushels of corn, The shortage in pasture is d cult to express in terms of an equi lent corn value, but the pasture losses age easily equal to more than 80,000,000 buskels of corn. Thus, in effect, 412,000,000 bushels of wheat must do duty for a shortage in BT crops of 494,000,000 bushels, plus @ shortage in hay equal to 50,000,000 bushels, plus a shortage in pasture equal to 80,000,000 bushels, or 624,000, bushels in all. Based Upon Domestic Use. ‘These figures are based upon domestic use only, and upon the assumption that there shall be no export whatever for the remainder of the present crop year. Stated in another form, and quoting from our recent crop report: “The ton- nage of corn, oats, barley and grain sorghum now indicated shows a total of 92,000,000 tons, compared with a five- year average of 108,000,000 tons,” a drop of over 15,000,000 tons in the feed grains alone. To this must be added the short- age of 12,000,000 tons of hay and mil- lions of acres of pasture. ‘This statement, bare as it is, points to the vital necessity of using the ut- most economy in conserving our supply of feeds for live stock. thfin.]y"d somewhat, the situation is The 1930 production of wheat was 821,000,000 bushels. Domestic require- carry-over for 1931 aggregate 541,000,- | 000 bushels. Nineteen million bushels have already been exported. This leaves a balance, assuming no more exports whatever, of 412,000,000 bushels availa- ble for feed for live stock, August Forecast. Our August forecast estimated a total crop of corn, oats, barley, rye and grain sorghums combined _amounting to 3,869,000,000 bushels. We had on Au- gust 1 a carry-over of these grains of approximately 184,000,000 bushels, Our gross supply for the remainder of 1930 and the first half of 1931 aggregates, therefore, 4,000,000,000 bushels, From this total must be deducted 253,000,000 bushels for 1931 feed re- quirements and carry-over. This leaves us with a total available supply for all purposes of 3,798,000,000 bushels. Our domestic consumption, on the other hand, of the same grains based on the five-year average consumption for the years 1925 to 1929 is 4,292,000 bushels, made up as follows: Bushels. .2,686,000,000 ,348,000,000 ye . 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