Today we continued our blog discussion. Life in the rual area was hard because the prices for crops went down. There are too many crops because we were in war and need it for the armies. Over production hurt the farmers. Many farmers couldn't afford to support their families. They also lost their homes because they couldnt't pay off their loans. 400,000 farms closed in 3 years. They had their own food so they had a better advantage then city people. They payed farmers to plant let, distroy crops, spill milk, and kill hogs and other animals. By planting more you urt yourself because the prices went down. Farmers didnt know about erosion so they didnt do crop rotation and things like that. In the 1930s a drought hit. It caused the dust bowl. Farmers didn't take care of the soil. The dust storms made the air unbreathable. It aggrivated the drought. Dust is reported in New York city and ships in the Atlantic ocean. The government planted alot of trees to help with ersion. Farmers became educated on how to stop ersion. So many people lost their jobs. It lead to men just wondering the streets trying to find a way to support their jobs. The men would go out and look for odd jobs. 25% of the people were unemployed. A hobo is a person that doesnt cause problems and they are trying to find work they go to different towns. Bumbs are usually drunk and they cause problems and stay in one town. Children didnt go to school because they started to pick cotton. Their terms were shorter then they are now. Schools shut down because they children couldnt go to school. They suffered during the dust bowl because alot of babies died from all the dust. They had to rewash their dishes before they could eat off of them. Children starved. A lot of kids ran away from home because they felt that they were a burden to their families. They are known as boxcar kids. They jumped onto boxcars to travel to other towns and many died because of that. Hospitals only treated them if they were really ill. A lot of kids got rickets. They couldnt eat well.
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