A Living -- The Hard Way. Here, on the farm of H.A. Schneider near Boise City, Okla., in the heart of the "Black Blizzard '' country which created a dust bowl of x once green acres, this man and his wife fight the soil for a living as they wait for the year that will produce a crop. Schneider said, "I'm down to the bottom of my sock. If we don't get a crop.." His wife, working with him, said she supports him with her chickens, garden and a cow. She added, jokingly, that men folk got lazy raising what since it requires only three months work a year, and that "raising row crops is work".
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A Living -- The Hard Way. Here, on the farm of H.A. Schneider near Boise City, Okla., in the heart of the "Black Blizzard '' country which created a dust bowl of x once green acres, this man and his wife fight the soil for a living as they wait for the year that will produce a crop. Schneider said, "I'm down to the bottom of my sock. If we don't get a crop.." His wife, working with him, said she supports him with her chickens, garden and a cow. She added, jokingly, that men folk got lazy raising what since it requires only three months work a year, and that "raising row crops is work".

Associated Press · [ca. August 1938]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Depression Era: U.S.

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