on the winter of 1880–81, and farmers ended up tormented by insect hordes from 1856 to 1875, by prairie fires, and because of the recurrent droughts on the 1890s. lots of farmers joined the Granger motion while in the lean 1870s as well as the Farmers’ Alliances of the 1880s. within the 1890s quite a few beleaguered farmers, confronted with des