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Great Depression & Mother's Homemade Bread

Orrin Pauling>NIU Collection>NIU Collection, Segment 16

Great Depression & Mother's Homemade Bread,

duration 01:34

FARMING DURING GREAT DEPRESSION: Orrin talks about the farm program of 1932 (he thinks), recalls corn prices, turning corn over to government. Was down low in the 1930s. Farming was difficult, didn't have convenient foods back then, brief anecdote about mother's homemade bread.