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it didn't come up the wind blew it away. The Government paid for planting Alfalfa & clover. Very little of it ever grew. A grasshopper always waited for anything green to come out of the ground.
Sometimes the air would fill with dust and there wouldn't be a breath of wind present to cause the dust to rise. It was some sort of static electricity that seemed to lift it right out of the ground. Fence lines became covered with dirt that drifted in like snow. Windmills became electrified and people would get shocks when they turned on the mills or touched the pump handle. But life went on and we even had fun. Seems that there were more card parties and dances to go to than when times where good.
I got some work from the A.A.A. as a committeeman. It wasn't steady work but paid well when I did work. There was
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