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Show FEED SUPPLIES LIGHT IN U. S. SURVEY SHOWS A survey of dought conditions and feed supplies about July 1 has just about been completed by the Crop Reporting Board of the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics. It shows that there was an acute shortage short-age of feed in the worst drought area. In the country as a whole, however, the carry-over of feed and grain on farms was close to normal and the carryover carry-over of old hay was the largest since 1928. With prospects for 1936 crops declining daily and still largely depentent on how soon the drought is broken, no exact ap praisal ot tne current situation is yet possible, says the board, but the survey records of July 1 prospects, adjusted for recent weather conditions, indicate that, allowing for present stocks on farms supplies of feed grain this season will be much lighter than In any recent season except 1934 and hay supplies will probably be about as light as in. other recent drought years, excluding J9 34, ; : The hay and grain crops harvested harv-ested to date are, for the most part, better than those of 13 34, a considerable proportion of the corn crop could still show substantial sub-stantial recovery if rains come in time, and late crops of sorghums, sorg-hums, annual legumes, etc., can still be planted. During the first two weeks of July crops in the North Central states had to endure temperatures tempera-tures about 9 degrees above normal with only about V4 of the normal rainfall for that period. These weather conditions, following fol-lowing a dry June, have unquestionably un-questionably caused a material decline in prospects for most crops in that area and also in the conditions of pastures. |