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Show Local Visitor to World's Fair Tells of Crops in Middle Western States Crop conditioas in several middle western states were described here today by A. W. Anderson, following his and Mrs. Anderson's return home this morning from a tour with a bU3 load of school teachers to the Century of Progress Exposition Exposi-tion at Chicago. Conducting the tour was Dr. Hugh M. Woodward of the Brigham Young University. Wyoming crops were badly brun-ed. brun-ed. In Nebraska, farmers were shipping ship-ping out cattle, due to the parched conditio.! of pasture lands. The north half of Iowa was in a condition condi-tion comparable to that of Nebraska. Nebras-ka. In the south half, the corn looked look-ed good. "Illinois looked better than anything any-thing west of there," Mr. Anderson stated. "While we were there, Ne-oraska Ne-oraska received four inches of rain. While this would prove beneficial !to the corn crcp, it came too late 'to save the pasture." Returning west, the party found ;.he crops looking favorable in the i vicinity of Nauvoo. Hay in eastern Missouri was a total failure and loats, a most important crop in that 'section, was also burned up. "All the way through Missouri, however," Mr. Andersoa said, ' a very large crop of wheat was being harvested. The same was true in eastern Kansas. A huge com crop was also in sight. But coming into western Kansas and eastern Colorado, Colo-rado, he earth resembled a desert. Nothing locked better than Sanpete after we left eastern Kansas." The bus came west through Denver, Den-ver, over Route 40 into Utah and pas ed through the Uintah basin, which t:o was in a badly burned condition. In the party frcm North Sanpete besides the Andersons were Miss Mable Rasmusen of Mt. Pleaant; Miss Nora Bench, Miss Vondella Knight and Miss Ruth Sanderson of Fairview; Miss Eva Ericksen, Miss Edna Jensen and Miss Loa Allred, cf Spring City. |