The Tractors and the Land All over Oklahoma the tractors came and the people to had go. The owners of the land came first. They felt the dry eart with their fingers. The tenant f watched unhappily from their doorways. Then the owner men drove their cars into the yards spoke out their car windows. In the open doors, the women looked out and behind them stood the children. The women and children watched their men talking to the owner men Some of the owner men were kind and some of them were hard and afraid. They all said the same thing. The Banks owns the land. This land's poor. You know that And the land's getting poorer. The dust flies away. And cotton robs the soil, takes the life out of it.