Mcallen Daily Monitor

U. S. FUNDS TO
SUCCOR PEOPLE
OF LARGE AREA

Crop Losses Will Be
Up In Hundreds Of
Millions; Texas Included.

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 4.
(AP)--Approximately 800,000 persons--a number equal to the combined population of the state of Idaho.
Delaware and Nevada-are
on relief rolls in the drought
blighted western half of the
United States, it was shown
by a tabulation tonight from
official records.
As result of the distress
caused by the searing heat
and prolonged dry spell, the
government has designated
for relief purposes,
more
than 1,350 counties in 23
states as emergency or secondary drought counties.
-The loss to growing crops and
livestock in the affected area has
not been estimated officially. but
unofficial estimates placed the total in the hundreds of millions of
dollars.
A further loss. through severe
shortage of winter feed for live-
stock, has been predicted by agricultural and relief agencies unless substantial rain falls
soon.
Weather forecasts gave no sign of
a break in the drought.
Barren pastures, shortage of water, and scarcity of fodder have
caused forced sale of thousands of
head of cattle to the government to
be canned for distribution to the
needy. A week ago, government
purchases totaled 1,737,596 head
in 18 states. Another 190,000 head
had been condemned as unfit for
consumption, and killed on
the
ranges.

10,000,000 Cattle

Federal relief and farm administration officials geared the cattle
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