During the Depression and drouth in the '30's, my father's crops wiped out most of the time for several years, BUT, he had a Fordson tractor, a Model T Ford truck, a buzz saw, and twenty acres of timber on one end of the farm.
People in town still had to heat their houses in the winter. They kept my dad busy all winter cutting and selling firewood.
Speaking of firewood, I read a history of Omaha once that included a tale of a man in North Omaha in about 1855 who dealt in firewood. He had a problem with pilferage, so he took about 20 pieces of firewood, drilled a big hole down the middle, filled them with gunpowder, hammered a plug in, and put them at the end of the stack. When the neighbor's wood cook stoves started blowing up for no reason, the pilferage stopped.
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