Before straw choppers it was common practice to burn the straw after a field would was harvested. High clearance plow hadn't been invented yet and there was no other way to deal with a lot of straw, so the farmers burned it. If a wind came up, it would race the fire across the field and into the neighbor's grain field. Rural fire trucks were inadequate and water was in short supply. If there was time, about the only defense was to get a bunch of tractors with plows and plow wide fire breaks to stop the fire - even that didn't work if the wind was strong enough.
Dad sent us out to field cultivate a wheat field that we had harvested. The straw kept plugging up the cultivators so my brother set fire to the field, even though I told him not to. The wind pushed that fire into neighbor's wheat field in about 3 minutes and burned the neighbor's field completely. We found out later that the neighbor had combined the wheat and dropped the windrows for baling. When fire starts on the prairie lands it can move real fast with a little wind.
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