Show CONDITIONS I FARTHER EAST EASTBy By Dy M C HOLBROOK I Mr h his has just JUIt returned from a n business trip Fast and made a very velY close study of various I conditions over the eleven states through which he passed Of or course I going and coming in m a car provid- provid provided I ed an excellent opportunity to see ard learn much about the people and the states state through which their course took themI them I HP lip says the entire section coy cov covered ered showed shoved a very serious shor shor- shortage tags tage ta of mOI moisture ture including our own Utah W Wyoming Nebraska I Colondo Colorado Kansas Missouri oun Iowa Illinois Indiana Michigan an and WIS cousin Going and coming on differ different I ent routes made it possible to see ee I much more of our great middle west I 1 Iho lino llo long extended drouth over the much greater enter part of the these and adjoining states had almost completely destro destroyed ed the nest harvest harvesting ing mg ing value of most all 1111 their early crops Their home home- and market gardens were ere almost ruined Seven Seventy ty five cent of their fall gram grain gramand and the fir first t crop of alfalfa would not pay to harvest So in m hundreds ot of cases casca the big with their large aCl acreage age on seeing their nas tures completely burned and dried up were as they felt forced to turn their animals into their hayfields once hopeful grain ram and hay y fields to glean what little the burn burn- burning burning ing mg sun and hot d drying mg winds had left In thousands of cases ses there was as but little remaining during one or tv two 0 days of our Journey going east there was a n hot south couth southwind southwind wind and it registered at and even een the trees looked wilted d and drooping It sure looked a hope hope- hopeless hopeless hopeless less for thousands thousand of stock stockmen stockmen stockmen men and farmers whore who ire are usually among the more prosperous ones It sure did look bad and nothing but a change in m temperature and wind and the coming of lam lain could sav save the farmer from almost com com- compete complete complete pete disaster but just lust at the dark darkest darkest darkest est and most discouraging hour for our valuable farmer came a great measure of oI relief for the same sarno change by way ay of rain ram and cooler temperature came to most all the states mentioned and according to the papers most all the nation had I more or less les rain ram fall etc Some of the very sections had considerable con considerable rain ram So while they have thus far lost heavily there IS 13 still hope Of course much of their hay and for this how how- however how however grain is gone one year ever they still have ha hopes of their millions of acres of corn cornI cornI cornI I will just dust explain e why In the first place we ne are about 3 to 4 weeks necks eek in m advance ad of any of these states this J ear in m most of our crops So even en thou though h they too had a mild winter as fa as Chicago and a very early spring yet they I dId not plant so early as lid did ae e and moat mot of them waited until the regular time to plant their corn So the best is only about a foot high down the to Ju jut dust t coming up and most of th m have a good stand Since the ram rain it looks very ery fine most of them now feel that a afew afew afew few storms such as they usually Jet get during the summer will make them a fine corn crop I am lead I to say in m the face of their awful conditions which I hive have told you only a little about that if l the farmer only gets a half i a crop from these millions of acres of corn they have planted they Will then ha have e coin com and fodder sufficient sufficient cu nt supply the necessary arv food for all domestic animal ammal life in m America So there is still hope for all of ofus ofus ofus us if only kind nature can provide a little more moisture at the need needed needed ed 00 hour The general rain ram fall sure made their vast ast sections of country look better and made the residents there feel entirely different By no means I can these severe losses be made up financially this J year sear car but mor more of them can n now see sec a wa way out If Ifa ifa ifa a gracious Providence will continue to hear and ind answer their prayer prayer- prayerful prayerful prayerful ful pleadings |