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Show DROUGHT GROWS IN SEVERITY WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 Cim ! The most severe winter drought in many years is steadily spreading spread-ing over the great plains from Canada to Texas, the U. S. weather weath-er bureau reported today. Winter wheat is 'being killed, streams are dry, farmers are hauling haul-ing water for drinking and for livestock and unusually early dust storms are adding to suffering over a widening area, the bureau said. The bureau said the "continued absence of appreciable precipitation precipita-tion has been very detrimental" to much of the central and southern south-ern great plains, extending eastward east-ward to the Mississippi river and ; westward to the Rocky mountains. ; "Snowcover was generally insufficient in-sufficient in portions of the far west and locally in Rocky Mountain Moun-tain states," the report said. |