few other memories,since were discussing the "good old days". another thing that made the dust bowl as bad as it was,was simply that no body had any money.The depression took care of that.so folks who had a farm were often better off simply because they could for a while feed themselves.work off the farm was almost nonexistant and what few jobs there were had 100 guys waiting in line for it. This created a situation where families,who normally were the backup and helpers of that day and time simply couldnt help because they had nothing either.Folks who wanted to leave the farms simply had nowhere else to go for help.my own family survived because in addition to raising cattle we raised turkeys.once we shot the cattle because they were starving, we turned to those turkeys simply because they could survive on the grasshoppers and locusts. we and several other families in the area hauled water from a spring a mile from our house because wells went dry. turtles got so bad in that spring hole and were so hungry that they would bite the heads off the turkeys as they went to water. my dad sat there day after day shooting them. he also shot crows,and gave them to a neighbor who had four girls,they survived by eating them. jack rabbits were so bad that the state would give you two shotgun shells for each one you killed,sort of a bounty type deal.dad would shoot them with his 22 and keep the shotgun shells because they were worth more.he had at one time two 55 gallon drums full of loose shotgun shells.and after the drought finally ended no one in the family ever ate a jackrabbit again and most dont like turkey. as i say,several factors contributed to the dust bowl being as bad as it was.it wasnt just the farming practices,it wasnt just the drought, it was simply a combination of things that all came together in the dirty thirties to make it one of the worst times in our history.
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Today's Featured Article - The Day Mom Drove the 8N - by Brian Browning. My Dad was wanting to put in a garden but couldn't operate the 8N and handle the old horse drawn plow he had found and rigged up to use with the tractor. Well, he decided to go get Mom out of the house and have her drive the tractor while he walked behind the plow. You got to understand that while my Mom is a hard worker who will always help whenever she can... she had never operated farm machinery before that day. Dad got her out there, explained how the clutch was the same as in our o
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