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Kansas Farm history

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Mennonites from _____ came to central Kansas and brought their knowledge of wheat farming in 1874.
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What Kansas and the great plains were known as during the early 20th century as the great American _____ because of how empty and vast it was.
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_____ corn is grown extensively in the southwestern corner of the State.
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Wheat is in some ways a ___________ for corn.
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12. Grain is measured in increments of ___________.
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Farming vehicles that were around in the 1900s -1930s Kansas farming time period slowly replacing horse drawn wagons and plows in farming and now was the thing pulling plows and combines were ____________.
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The long succession of abnormally dry _______turned a considerable area in western Kansas into a near desert.
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______ red grew better in Kansas than varieties of the grain brought by earlier settlers from their eastern farms.
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In 1914 plows were under horse and ____ power
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. The cause of the dust bowl was a _______ with winds that would blow the dirt up into the sky.
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. A storm called the black blizzard that was better known as the _________ as a result of the great depression since the stock market crashed.
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A name that Kansas is known as for farming is the ________ State.
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Another name that Kansas was known for was the _________ of the country.
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Wheat planting destroyed the natural coverage of dirt which was ______ grass.
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The grasshopper ______ of 1874 caused corn shortage and starvation.
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A drought is a lack of _______ and high temperatures.
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In the Kaw Valley in eastern Kansas, _________ and melons are major crops.
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_______ is a deep-rooted drought-resistant hay that is important among lesser crops
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. The greater efficiency of large-scale farming led naturally to the introduction of the _______
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Kansas became known as the great _____ State In 1889 and reached a peak production of it at a yield of 273,000,000 bushels.