stackyFACTSMechanizing the farm had some surprisingly catastrophic side effects. The rapid adoption of deep-plowing gasoline tractors tore up the natural prairie grasses that held the soil down, directly causing the suffocating ecological disaster known as the Dust Bowl.
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