After The Storm-Severe dust storms like the one that lashed Kansas Sunday and Monday change the face of the prairie. The backyard of the Minnie Britt farm, southwest of this central Kansas city, was level Sunday morning. By Tuesday. at the end of the blow, this dust drift had piled up along a fence. Britt's chickens can be seen scratching on the fringes of the drift for wheat. Millions of dollars dame has been done the wheat crop by the winds.
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After The Storm-Severe dust storms like the one that lashed Kansas Sunday and Monday change the face of the prairie. The backyard of the Minnie Britt farm, southwest of this central Kansas city, was level Sunday morning. By Tuesday. at the end of the blow, this dust drift had piled up along a fence. Britt's chickens can be seen scratching on the fringes of the drift for wheat. Millions of dollars dame has been done the wheat crop by the winds.

Associated Press · [ca. April 1950]

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