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The wide flat lands of Great plans were especially suited to mechanized farming, and gasoline - powered tractors, disc plows, and harvester - thresher combines increased productivity enormously. Back in 1830 it had taken some fifty - eight hours of labor to bring an acre of wheat to the granary; in much of the Great plains a hundred years later it required less than hours. As wheat prices fell in the 1920s, farmers broke still more land to make up the difference with increased production. Great Plains farmers had created an ecological time bomb that exploded when drought returned in the yearly 1930s. With native buffalo crass destroyed for the sake of wheat growing, there was noting left to prevent soil erosion. Dust storms blew always tens of millions of acres of rich top soil, and thousands of farm families left the region. Those who stayed suffered deep economic and psychological losses from the calamity. The hardest - hit regions western Kansas, eastern Colorado, western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and eastern New Mexico. It was the calamity in this southern part of the Great Plains that prompted a Denver journalist to coin the phrase "Dust Bowl.
Paragraph 2 The wide flat lands of Great plans were especially suited to mechanized farming, and gasoline - powered tractors, disc plows, and harvester - thresher combines increased productivity enormously. Back in 1830 it had taken some fifty - eight hours of labor to bring an acre of wheat to the granary; in much of the Great plains a hundred years later it required less than hours. As wheat prices fell in the 1920s, farmers broke still more land to make up the difference with increased production. Great Plains farmers had created an ecological time bomb that exploded when drought returned in the yearly 1930s. With native buffalo crass destroyed for the sake of wheat growing, there was noting left to prevent soil erosion. Dust storms blew always tens of millions of acres of rich top soil, and thousands of farm families left the region. Those who stayed suffered deep economic and psychological losses from the calamity. The hardest - hit regions western Kansas, eastern Colorado, western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and eastern New Mexico. It was the calamity in this southern part of the Great Plains that prompted a Denver journalist to coin the phrase "Dust Bowl.
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