The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that damaged agriculture and ecology in the 1930s. It was caused by a combination of poor farming practices, drought, and strong winds in the central United States. The devastation resulted in widespread crop failure and forced many farmers to abandon their land.
The people in the Agriculture Department in the Nations Capital had no idea concerning the land some 1,500 miles to the west. They thought the same procedures that farmers used in the eastern part of the country would also work in that part of the country. Rather than turn it into ranches, they turned it into farms. The prairie soil was harder to break up than that of the eastern part. By the late 1920s and early 1930s machinery existed that could turn the hard sod of Western Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Panhandle Texas, and Eastern Colorado. The farmers plowed this land is straight rows like they always had. When harvest came they harvested the wheat and cut the straw to the ground and carried off the straw leaving bare ground. The next year they planted their seeds and the rain did not come. Instead wind came. The grass that had held the ground together no longer existed. The wind carried away the dirt. It carried the dirt to the east coast and darkened the sky. It ruined the fields. Since the farmers had not used contour plowing, when the rain finally came it created great gullies and made the rivers muddy. It took a while for the government to get out the big machinery to smooth out the gullies and start planting trees for windbreaks.
Because the dust bowl is the SOURCE of the dust raised by a dust storm.
One famous book about the Dust Bowl is "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck.
The dust bowl is also referred to as the Dirty Thirties or the Dirty Dust Bowl.
The Dust Bowl was primarily caused by a combination of natural drought conditions and poor farming practices, rather than actions of Congress. However, government policies and lack of regulation contributed to the severity of the disaster.
The state that was not included in the Dust Bowl was Florida.
No the dust bowl was not shaped like a bowl
No the dust bowl was not shaped like a bowl.
Because the dust bowl is the SOURCE of the dust raised by a dust storm.
After over harvesting the fields followed by a serious drought.
One famous book about the Dust Bowl is "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck.
The dust bowl is also referred to as the Dirty Thirties or the Dirty Dust Bowl.
Life for California farmers during the dust bowl was horrible, the farmers would go plant their crops and when the dust bowl come their crops would be black and start to rot because they became not any good anymore.
The Dust Bowl started in 1931 and ended in 1939. Exact dates are impossible to decide.
The Dust Bowl was primarily caused by a combination of natural drought conditions and poor farming practices, rather than actions of Congress. However, government policies and lack of regulation contributed to the severity of the disaster.
Dust Bowl Revival was created in 2003.
The Dust Bowl Symphony was created in 1999.
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