jinman
Rest in Peace
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2001
- Messages
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- Location
- Texas - Wise County - Sunset
- Tractor
- NHTC45D, NH LB75B, Ford Jubilee
Don, I'm really interested to see how your peanuts turn out. My dad used to insure lots of peanut and cotton crops back in the late '50s and early '60s. Back in those days, much of the peanut crops and cotton crops were done with manual labor. I still remember going with my dad to the cotton gin he insured. On the way there, we watched people in the fields picking cotton and dragging those big bags. I thought that would be fun until I learned how little they got paid. Pulling cotton, where they picked the entire boll, paid about half of what picking the cotton lint out of the boll paid. Cotton pickers had rough, sore, calloused fingers from picking the cotton out of the hard scratchy boll. Even as a kid, I knew that was no way to make a living.