Show I DROUGHT NO PERil TO TOrt rt I NATIONS NATION'S FOOD SUPPLY I i I The drought serious as it has hac been throughout many of the leading agri- agri agricultural agricultural cultural states has not endangered the I nation s food SUpply according to specialists of the agricultural adjustment adjust adjust- adjustment toI I ment administration and the United States Department of Agriculture who have studied the situatIon carefully states Director William Peterson o a athe the Utah State Agricultural College Extension Service If wheat production this scat tm should be as low as million bushels as in- in indicated indicated in I fOl forecasts the burden burden- burdensome some so-nc surplus would be still further reduced but the carryover of unused wheat would still be about million bushels next year when the 1935 crop crol comes in The Thc present surplus of about millIon bushels plus thiS years s expected ClOP of about mil mil- million million lion bUShelS would give a supply of about m million bushels as compared with the estImated annual needs of not more than million bushels forced marketing and the emergency cattle buyIng operations of the govern govern- government gov rn- rn ment in the drought areas wIll remove large numbers of animals but thIs disPosal of low 10 grade stock WIll merely help m in the reduction of an estimated surplus of more mon than six million cows and heifers Wheat and cattle ore are two commodities commodities ties vItal to the food supply of the nation which although they are af- af affected affected by the drought continue to exist in quantities in excess of demands de- de demands mands If it were ere not for the tragedY It inflicts on its victims the drought might be considered to has ha hae e compensating compensating sating advantages d because it reduces exi surpluses |