EXPERIENCE 3

“Why.” He said. “I left a milk bottle on the back porch and it was two-thirds filled with dirt this morning. I went down to the creek to water the horses and had to break the dust on the water like ice and above it to one side for the horses to drink. So much dirt blew into my chicken yard and drifted like snow that my chickens all walked over an eight foot fence.”

-----Bon Turner, Hoisington, Kansas (Saturday March 16, 1935)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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