Drought Hits Farmlands Near New York -- John DeMonaco (left), a Hicksville, L, I., farmer, holding a normal cabbage plant, while Orson Cannon of the Nassau farm bureau's research staff is pictured with a shriveled plant from an average Long Island patch this year. A survey of the drought in and near the metropolitan area showed that conditions on farms were rapidly becoming more serious.

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. July 1939]

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