Posted by Hughb on September 03, 2009 at 09:18:19 from (66.82.9.59):
In Reply to: Re: Dust Bowl Tractors posted by greenbeanman in Kansas on September 03, 2009 at 07:42:48:
First came the drought which was caused by shifting weather patterns. Then poor farming practice caused the soil to blow away when the grasses died. This is a simplification of a complex set of circumstance. If the top soil had never been plowed up there would have still been a drought. The introduction of more powerful tractors able to pull gangplows and turn over thousands of acres laid the soil bare. Then the wind which seems to blow for ever caused the huge dust "rollers". The dust clouds further aggrivated the drought conditions. I was born in 1937 in Pratt Kansas in the middle of a dust storm. Out of six of us children four had "dust pneumonia". My father worked for International Harvester developing the tractors that were used to plow up the prairie.
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