of the winter of 1880–eighty one, and farmers were being suffering from insect hordes from 1856 to 1875, by prairie fires, and with the recurrent droughts of the 1890s. quite a few farmers joined the Granger motion during the lean 1870s as well as Farmers’ Alliances on the 1880s. from the 1890s several beleaguered farmers, faced with wreck and