"We would, they would make what they called poison bran. Bran is made from wheat. And they'd poison that bran and they would scatter it all around the edge of the field where the grasshoppers come in. They liked that. It would kill them. You didn't have the good chemicals to spray them like you do today. They would eat several rows of corn in, but we didn't have them eat the whole field."
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Harvey Pickrel was born in 1916 on a farm south of York Nebraska. Harvey and his brother helped their father on the farm in many ways. They would harness the horses to the plow and, later on, drive the tractor and plow the fields. When he was old enough Harvey started farming on his own. Harvey has seen a lot of good and bad years out on the farm. And he's seen a lot of changes in the way farming is done.
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