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July 30, 1931: A field of crops ravaged by grasshoppers in the Great Plains. According to an Associated Press article published a few days earlier, one South Dakota farmer, “hearing that turkeys would eat the grasshoppers, sent his flock into the fields.” In something of a David-and-Goliath tale, the turkeys came back without feathers. Photo: The New York Times
July 30, 1931: A field of crops ravaged by grasshoppers in the Great Plains. According to an Associated Press article published a few days earlier, one South Dakota farmer, “hearing that turkeys would eat the grasshoppers, sent his flock into the fields.” In something of a David-and-Goliath tale, the turkeys came back without feathers. Photo: The New York Times

July 30, 1931: A field of crops ravaged by grasshoppers in the Great Plains. According to an Associated Press article published a few days earlier, one South Dakota farmer, “hearing that turkeys would eat the grasshoppers, sent his flock into the fields.” In something of a David-and-Goliath tale, the turkeys came back without feathers. Photo: The New York Times

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