During the years 1920 to 1939 life on the prairies had been very tough and difficult to live in due to the extremely tough economic times and climatic impact around the area. The most dominant factors of the cause are, the drastic climate change, the grass hopper plague and prices of products falling significantly low. In 1931, humongous Dust storms began. The dust-storm left every crop field empty and destroyed. As stated in the text “the wind would polish your hand if you left it out long enough”. This sentence depicts the speed of the wind which help us relate to the intensity of the dust storm. In addition, during 1936, the windy, dry climate in Regina and Moosejaw blew the overused soil across the road and house, which made it very hard
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The price of eggs sold didn’t pay of the panting straws needed in hen’s house. Pigs that weighed 200 lb were sold for $3 each. The worst scenario was when farmers had to kill their pigs rather than finish feeding them because feeding them costed more than they made from a pig. Farmers lived a very poor life within the years 1928 to 1937. The last factor is the plague of grasshoppers. In 1931, the hopper infestation occurred. The hopper would come not by one but in hundreds and thousands. In Winnipeg, hoppers made golf courses unplayable. They would strip the course leaving nothing behind. Likewise, fields of corn or alfalfa or oats would be destroyed in hours Furthermore, they chewed almost anything including kitchen utensils like mops. Dead hoppers on rail tracks caused the trains to shut down because the tracks were too greasy. lroy Hoffman, workers in fields, remembers being hit in the face by grasshoppers when he was working on a tractor. "That would just knock you coo-coo," Elroy says. Others have told stories of cars squishing so many hoppers that the roads became slick. All these aspects when combined together, it makes the prairies a living nightmare or a hell’s fire to live
The price of eggs sold didn’t pay of the panting straws needed in hen’s house. Pigs that weighed 200 lb were sold for $3 each. The worst scenario was when farmers had to kill their pigs rather than finish feeding them because feeding them costed more than they made from a pig. Farmers lived a very poor life within the years 1928 to 1937. The last factor is the plague of grasshoppers. In 1931, the hopper infestation occurred. The hopper would come not by one but in hundreds and thousands. In Winnipeg, hoppers made golf courses unplayable. They would strip the course leaving nothing behind. Likewise, fields of corn or alfalfa or oats would be destroyed in hours Furthermore, they chewed almost anything including kitchen utensils like mops. Dead hoppers on rail tracks caused the trains to shut down because the tracks were too greasy. lroy Hoffman, workers in fields, remembers being hit in the face by grasshoppers when he was working on a tractor. "That would just knock you coo-coo," Elroy says. Others have told stories of cars squishing so many hoppers that the roads became slick. All these aspects when combined together, it makes the prairies a living nightmare or a hell’s fire to live