Show FARM DISASTER LOOMS DEW I 1 rain na i in is I 1 S needed N F 0 61 d we d T to cc save as a v e W wheat h e a t serious cuts in meat production and wheat selling for 5 a bushel may be in prospect if rains do not relieve the serious drouth plaguing the country s vast wheat fields from texas to the canadian border a survey discloses A dry summer and below normal rains th s autumn have delayed wheat seeding kept planted wheat from germinating properly and forced farmers to dust in their grain in a manner reminiscent of the dust bowl days of the crop experts report in addition to the damage to the plantings of winter wheat farmers have not been able to use their wheat grounds tor for grazing and mil lions of animals usually fattened on wheat during the fall either will i move to market at lighter weights or without tha the fattening benefits of the wheat fields the texas panhandle whose I 1 thousands of acres roi mally provide both grain and cattle pasture has little topsoil moisture and only a scant supply of subsoil moisture texas cattlemen estimated that the state would have only 20 to 25 per cent of the normal pasturage this winter crop experts in oklahoma kan sas and nebraska have reported a serious danger of heavy winter kill this year the wheat needs a moist well packed soil to survive the dust in which the grain now Is being planted Is little protection from the freezing and thawing weather which will heave the young seedlings from the ground moreover grain dealers and cat clemen have predicted that wheat heat would soar to 5 a bushel unless the drouth Is relieved immediately the price of wheat now Is above 3 and a serious shortage next year plus the heavy demand will send it even higher they said this year livestock men say there will be practically no pastur ing and many farmers are reported to be I 1 qu dating their herds rather than attempt to carry them without pasture on high priced feeds |