1. The Dust Bowl
... protection that farmers had to use the farmers became dazed as they worked. An inch of soil that took nature 1000 years to lay down it only took a minute to blow it all away. The Dust Bowl, which was about 100 million acres, was becoming a barren wasteland. Farmers were now losing money because they had to take out loans to pay for farm ... equipment and to feed their family. The drought persisted for three long years. The only way to retrieve water was to use windmills as water ... pumps to pump water up from under ground streams. The farmers tried to bring this to the attention of th...
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