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I ran thru a cotton field once and that was a big mistake. Got cotton burrs stuck everywhere.
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Yup. late 60s. Fisher County. Fisher County, TX ??? Not too far from the Ranch, as the crow flies. I’ve ate at the DQ there quiet a bit. It’s one of the good ones. 🤠
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yes, and picked tobacco as well. And tossed hay bails.
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Did all that during the summer when I was a kid, helping my grandfather, the money I made was used for school clothes.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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I never picked cotton But my mother did and my brother did And my sister did and my daddy died young Workin' in the coal mine
(Actually it was my grandmother did and her brother did growing up in Arkansas) Soon as I saw the title I was hoping no one would beat me too it! He'll no! Don't grow it here.
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No but I bucked a azz load of hay and pitched a lot of manure. They make hay a lot different now than back then.
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Wait a minute, I thought only Black people were abused out in the cotton fields...........Or are you guys all Black and just never told me..... Did all that during the summer when I was a kid, helping my grandfather, the money I made was used for school clothes. I helped Grandpa harvest cherries every summer but never seen a dime, never minded it though as we always had fun.
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I helped Grandpa harvest cherries every summer but never seen a dime, never minded it though as we always had fun.
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I haven't but my wife did. She was a cotton hoer. Said when she started feeling sorry for herself she would look over and see her 7 year old brother in the next row. She was 9. And the planter's kids she was working for had their young children out there with them.
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No, not cotton country in Iowa.
I recall seeing a planter ad that said the planter was so accurate costly hand thinning was unnecessary.
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When them cotton balls get rotten, you can’t pick very much cotton!!!
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Just wondering how many old timers on here ever chopped cotton? I chopped cotton in the last 70's on my uncle's farm in southern Arkansas. Being 8 yrs old, it sucked! Found a bucket full of arrowheads though........ Yessir...I hoed a bit of cotton in the 70s outside Lubbock, TX and in southern OK just north of Wichita Falls, TX. Reckon I am a member of a dwindling club.
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All I ever did was toss hay bales. All mom’s side of the family messed with the cotton. And I’m damn glad I didn’t have to do any of that.
Dad thrashed peanuts by hand.
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Haven’t chopped cotton but did do a stint of hoeing or cotton chipping as we call it in Australia. Certainly a character building way to earn a few dollars.
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No cotton in the Rocky's of N.W. Colorado, but i pulled weeds and hoed in the garden, milked the cows, twice a day before and after school. Rio7
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Mom’s dad had a whole passle of aunts, uncles, and cousins from up around Searcy Arkansas that would come down every year to pick cotton in central Texas. I took momma and her two sisters up to Searcy for a family reunion back in like 2004. Met a cousin that just happened to be born down here during one of those picking seasons.
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
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Yup. late 60s. Fisher County. Fisher County, TX ??? Not too far from the Ranch, as the crow flies. I’ve ate at the DQ there quiet a bit. It’s one of the good ones. 🤠 Rotan, TX My maternal great grandfathers both farmed near. One had a dry goods store in town and a lumberyard. HL Davis & Sons
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Back in the day (late '50's and early 60's) this is the way farming and school co-existed.
You'd go to school the first day and get registered. Then the farm kids would not attend school for the first six weeks and part of the second six weeks, except for rainy days. You were busy on the farm. Usually when you did get back to school, you couldn't miss another day for the rest of the 1st semester or you would fail. Teachers and principles would usually look the other way, if you did miss some more days, but you had to do all your schoolwork, and it couldn't be too many more days.
In the spring, the month of May didn't exist at school. You were busy on the farm again.
All the city kids complained about school...... All the farm kids thought it was a vacation.
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Most of us have it so soft today.
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The only thing I've ever had to do with cotton was to feed the seeds to dairy cattle. Often times wondered where it all came from and what it took to get it loaded on that rail car.
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