Hub Deep In Dust--Dig out and cleanup jobs such as this faced many a Kansas farmer after the big dust storm lashed the wheat state Sunday and Monday. The heavy winds drifted soil almost up to the hub of this piece of machinery on the Minnie Britt farm south of Abilene, In the heart of Kansas. Dust storms have been so severe this spring that some farmers call this year the start the "filthy fifties."

Associated Press · [ca. April 1950]

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