Show many sections fearful of new dust gowl in 46 A WW news rea feature ture THE dust fowls rich land after several good years is dry enough in some spots to take wings again but whether it t will or will not is the 64 dollar question millions million of people would like to know kno withe the answer before the soil starts moving so I 1 far ar there has been a little blow out in western kansas and oklahoma and its irs dry too but no nc one who went through the black blizzards of a decade ago would compare this years storms with those years another ano ther dust bowl mry may develop dey elop but conditions would have to grow a lot worse than they are now before I 1 would climb out on a limb with any such prediction one kansas official has stated after snow and rain fell the winter has been a dry one in all the old dust bowl states wheat made little growth in some areas and the V U S department of agriculture has reported that a new nev dust bowl appeared to be forming in the redlands dietr district ic t 0 of f ki kansas ansas ind and Okla oklahoma homi some wheat damage has been reported at pratt and liberal kans but recently snows and rains have improved the wheat lands west of I 1 hutchinson at amarillo tex gene howe aspa newspaper er publisher Is optimistic ti pointing out that conditions are not yet critical and spring snows and rains may end the threat of a drouth both farmers and the government coin batted the tendency to plow up grasslands tor for planting 9 during world war ir II as was done in world war 1 I the land Is tied down better this is time me farmers have learned to plow a and nd cultivate so as to leave more stubble on top to hold the ahe soil in tome some places in the tha old dust bowl there has teen been little or no moisture all winter and undoubtedly wheat Is in bad shape whether or not it will survive much longer no one knows perhaps the fate ol of many fields hangs in the balance bala neb and not until late spring will the verdict be known even experts in the winter wheat belt differ widely in their opinions some say the ahe wheat is already gone others hold out for an 80 per cent yield still others think that rain any time within a month or six weeks will give the fields new life wheat supplies are lower than tor for many years some of the mills are working only five days a week in some places in texas oklahoma and Kati kansas ses a black market in wheat has sprung up latest figures show visible U S wheat to half compared to a year ago millers are paying all the traffic will bear to keep their theia mills going newspaper editors in the wheat linds lands who make it their business to know crop prospects have made their a own w n surveys to a man they say not yet to the governments prediction it is going to take a lot more dust and dry weather to scare some of those grizzled old farmers who weathered the worst nature had to offer in the where does the dust come from that Is easy say the editors oklahomans Okla homans say it comes from kansas jayhawkers Jay hawkers say the dust plague originates in oklahoma the rivers arent very low yet either one kansas citizen reported th eyre a little too wet to plow and a little too muddy to drink |