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Topic: The Dust Bowl
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Prune Picker
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posted November 18, 2012 08:02 PM
The Dust Bowl is on PBS tonite. If ya want to see what we are probably going to have to swallow with 4 mo' yeaz of obammma.
It covers the Great Depression in dept, and i find it odd that PBS would air it.
The part i find most amazing is when the government buys and then slaughters thousands of head of cattle and let the people starve.
I know of a place not far from here where govt agents bought and then slaughter every cow in the area. I was told by my grandfather they paid a dollar per head!
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mike
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CrossJ
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posted November 18, 2012 08:13 PM
Watching it now.
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Leonard
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posted November 18, 2012 08:17 PM
I found it, not on for another 40 minutes. I have it set to record. LB
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Prune Picker
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posted November 18, 2012 11:25 PM
I just want to add that it's a two part series.
Part two airs tomorrow nite (Tues) on PBS.
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mike
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Leonard
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posted November 19, 2012 06:33 PM
Oh?
I better check it out.
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Cdog911
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posted November 19, 2012 08:48 PM
Why watch it on PBS? Farmers are bulldozing mile after mile of hedgerows planted in the CCC days to stop wind erosion like that seen in the dust bowl days, and much of the CRP is being unenrolled because of no extensions, or because they need to bale it to feed cattle due to ther drouth. Another year of this and I'll just send you pics from outside my front door.
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Prune Picker
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posted November 19, 2012 09:02 PM
After watching both parts of "The Dust Bowl" i am grateful that my elders took the time to tell us kids how difficult living during the Great Depression was. The story as told by the narrators is scarry acurate. My grandfather (Phillips) was employed by the Ideal Cement Co. and worked 6 to 7 days per week during the depression era. He mostly spoke of the lack of food avaliable for sale even though he had money to buy it. Meat was almost impossible to buy during the 30's. Up until the times both my Grandfather & my father died, they both refused to eat any wild game because they were forced to eat possum, coon,skunk & fish during the "Hard Times".
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mike
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32below
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posted November 20, 2012 06:15 PM
I can do that for ya now Lance. Pasture to the south is overrun with prairie dogs and eaten to dirt. Winds hit 45 a few days ago and that place had dirt moving. Gonna be ugly if we don't get rain and soon.
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TRnCO
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posted November 21, 2012 01:46 PM
I've been calling out in the sandhills of Colo. a lot this fall, and it's scary dry. The sand is absolutely, loose, in many places. It's like walking in beach sand,....farmers selling cattle because there's no grass, only sage left. We need moisture in a bad way..
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