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Timeline of the Dust Bowl

December, 1935

September, 1933

1932

April 8, 1935

1938

Number of dust storms are increasing. fourteen are reported in 1932 and there will be 38 in 1933.

Over six million infant pigs are slaughtered to raise prices of pork and meat. The FSRC (Federal Surplus Relief Corporation) equally distribute apples, beans, canned beef, flour and pork products.

The extensive work re-plowing the land into furrows, planting trees in shelter belts, and other conservation methods has resulted in a 65 percent reduction in the amount of soil blowing. However, the drought continues.

FDR approves the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, providing $525 million for drought relief, and the WPA (Works Progress Administration), will employ 8.5 million people.

Experts estimate that 850,000,000 tons of topsoil has blown off the Southern Plains during the course of the year, and that if the drought continues, the total area affected would increase from 4,350,000 acres to 5,350,000 acres by the spring of 1936.

1937

1935

1933

1939

1931

March, 1937

April 14, 1935

1931

May, 1934

June 18, 1933

1939

Soil erosion camps are opened in Clayton County and 161 are expected to be built by September.

Black Sunday. The worst “black blizzard” of the Dust Bowl occurs, causing extensive damage.

Midwestern and Southern plains are hit first with severe droughts.

In the fall, the rain comes, finally bringing an end to the drought. The country is pulled out of the Depression and the plains once again become golden with wheat.

Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely.

FDR’s Shelter belt Project begins. The project calls for large-scale planting of trees across the Great Plains, stretching in a 100-mile wide zone from Canada to northern Texas, to protect the land from erosion.

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