Our 1938 John Deere B
Making a box of .22-caliber shells last all year to shoot prairie chickens for the dinner table, or bartering excess crops for coal to heat the home in the winter, were common tales of that period. Your team of horses might grade the county road, or working the pink quartzite mines around Sioux Falls in the offseason might bring extra income to families in northwest Iowa in those times.
In 1936, the crops looked
