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1920s brought challenges, innovation for farmers

Benjamin Herrold
May 16, 2020
May 16, 2020

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At the dawn of the 1920s, farmers had things to feel good about. The Spanish Influenza pandemic had subsided, and the devastation of World War I, then known simply as the Great War or the World War, had ended.

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