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Page 93 leave us much. In fact they didn't leave us at all. They stayed on for eight or ten years more. 1932 was a good crop year but no price. It rained so much that the grasshoppers couldn't eat everything. They were building up a population to destroy us when the years got dry. I had 80 acres of barley in 1932 that made 40 bu. to the acre after the grasshoppers took about 20 bu per acre. The price of barley was eight cents per bu. so I piled it on the ground and filled the front room in the old house on the farm. Also had wheat in the dining room - that was the room where the hard coal burner used to be. Wheat was less than fifty cents on the market. One of our neighbors wanted a few bushels of barley. We got a bu. basket and stoked 20 baskets for him. He gave me twenty cents a bu. and hauled it himself. 1933 came along and it stayed dry. The grasshoppers took everything. In January Willis got married and in the late summer I took |