The Dust Bowl covered 300,000 square miles of territory located in Kansas, Texas, western Oklahoma, eastern Colorado, and New Mexico. Other than crops being lost in the process, farm animals which were used for foods or other foods were being killed because many farm animals ate the grass on the ground. The problem with this is that the animals would eat the grass which was filled with dust and dirt and many animals would suffocate from “mud balls”. Later on in time new machinery was coming out for farms to use to speed up the production of crops which gave farmers the opportunities to expand their farm acres and plant more crops. …show more content…
Dirt would go into automobile engines and clogged the vital parts. Housewives of farmers would fight vainly to keep it out of their homes, but it seeped in through cracks and crevices, though wet blankets which hung over windows, and through oiled