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was covered with dirt in the first seconds and in the next two the elevator took the top half of the steering wheel and the windshield. Some workers rushed over the drag by my body out of the mess but I crawled out on my own power. We got the old truck pulled out of the way and I went to work with a shovel and hauling rocks I don't remember which. I never used the truck as such again. Some years later I made a tractor out of it. Got large wheels off of an old International Truck. It had all kinds of power but not much traction. Still later I traded the original hind wheel on a new Maytag washing machine for Mom. She still had it when we moved to Redfield.
By 1934 the grasshoppers had the situation pretty well in had. The only greenery they would allow us to have was thistles. don't really know why they didn't eat thistles but they didn't. Nothing else did either unless it was a matter of starvation. The best time to cut and stack thistles was when they start to turn red at the
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