Show floods and drouth destroyed I 1 crops on 13 million acres last year latest reports irom from the U S department part ment of agriculture show chow that growing conditions during the past year were probably a little better than average despite floods flood throughout the mississippi basin in may and june and severe drouth in arkansas and the surrounding states during the summer and in the region extending from new jersey into virginia t total crop area lost was about acres government I 1 figures I 1 show nearly more acres than we were lost in 1042 pastures and most late itte crops suffered from the hot dry weather feather during july and august although june produced enough dry dri weather east of the mississippi to permit farmers in most abias areas to catch up with late planting and haying showers in the corn belt and the e eastern a tern hau halt of the cotton balti prevented V ested sir serious lous damage from the drouth there and reports show that the warm weather enabled nearly all of the threatened corn and soybean acreage to mature before frost the dry summer and fall also helped most farmers to complete their gigantic harvesting job the ina hardest totaled about Si acres exceeding 1812 1942 by nearly 3 per cent or more than acres despite wet weather that prevented planting of some acreage losses from dro drouth and flooded acreage that could not be b replanted |