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rule there would be less wind then. I'd be out on the road by 4:AM and always found the crews at work.
One morning I
stopped along a field that had been poisoned a week or two before and went
down in the road ditch. Grasshoppers were three or four inches
deep. You could have shoveled them up by the truck load. This
really kill the hoppers but when the wind blew they would fly in from
different fields miles & miles away so we didn't get rid of them until
the rains came and the hopper got a little red bug under the wings that
finally killed them off.
When
the spreading was finished we turned the pickups back to the
Government. Did get a picture of you and me sitting on the running-
board.
Ma was in N. Carolina so in the fall of 1940 I traded the pickup off and
got a 1937 Chev 2 dr.- It was the first car you ever drove alone -
from all outward appearance it was in good condition. Mom, you, me
and Willis and Lucille started for Greensboro. When we hit the hard