We discussed our blogs again, today.
400,000 farms in 3 years closed. Canning your food became popular in the 1930's. Some people paid farmers to plant less, to spill milk, and to burn their crops. The women had to learn new techniques to try and help the men do their work.
In 1932 farmers were in trouble because of the major drought. Without proper rainfall in the Great Plains, the Great Plains was thought to be a desert. Sometimes the dust storms would be 2 miles high and you were basically suffocating if you were outside. Farmers started to plant trees to try and create a wind break.
Okies were also called the beverly hillbillies.
It was very hard to keep a steady job in the 1930's. Some people would try and sell apples for about 5 cents an apple. Prices dropped because nobody was buying anything, and this is because nobody had any money and no job to buy anything. A hobo is a person that is looking for work and a bum is generally drunk and stay in one city and cause problems. People would put up symbols to tell the hobos if the city was safe.
If a women's husband's job was lost, they went out and tried to get a job. The women would get discriminated against because they "were not supposed to be working, only men were supposed to be." Women were not embarrassed to go out and get into a bread line.
Some children did not go to school because they would be out in the fields picking the cotton. Most of the schools around the nation closed down because there were not enough kids. Some babies died during the dust bowl because of breathing the dust in. Many children starved themselves to death because of the lack of food.
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