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Re: Cotton harvester vs human picking - What are rates
[Re: abolt300]
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09/23/20 05:41 AM
09/23/20 05:41 AM
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I dont know but I can tell you that everytime I drive by a mechanically harvested field with my dad, he shakes his head and tells me that his dad, my grandfather, who is long past, would be sick to see all that cotton left in the field and would've beat his and his brothers butts if they had ever left a field like that when they were growing up and picking by hand. My Mawmaw and Pawpaw raised a houseful of cotton pickers. Seven girls and two boys. And to the day mom died she'd say the same thing. She looked at combined fields and said, "good lord can you believe all that wasted cotton"?
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Re: Cotton harvester vs human picking - What are rates
[Re: Turkey]
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09/23/20 08:16 PM
09/23/20 08:16 PM
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Dublgrumpy
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My post may come across to you as racist (in 2020), but when the conversation happened, there were no feelings of racism. She was simply curious because of Alabama’s reputation. I was simply answering her question. We moved from a house in the middle of cotton fields on Ricks Lane. Most of the men the farmers employed were black. I was simply answering her question. I was 14 at the time. Funny how times change. A simple conversation 46 years ago is now deemed racist. Mr. Turkey, please don't think that I was implying you are a racist. That was only meant as a joke. Should have made myself clear I guess. I just figured that everybody knew that the words "black" & "cotton" can no longer be put in the same page together. If you do that automatically makes you "racist" these days. My apologies.
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Re: Cotton harvester vs human picking - What are rates
[Re: Beer Belly]
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09/24/20 08:05 AM
09/24/20 08:05 AM
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poorcountrypreacher
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I don't have any idea on mechanical costs, but I picked cotton in the 60s for 2 cents a pound. Hard to get rich doing that.
But by the time I was 15, I was the cotton baron with my own field and I was the guy hiring workers. I was more generous than my previous employer, and I paid 2.5 cents a pound. I got some of my friends to help me pick it after school and maybe one Saturday. I had 2.5 acres and made one bale of cotton, that I hauled to the gin in a 51 Chevy pickup. It turned out to be a small bale; I don't remember the weight, but I remember the disappointment when the guy announced it.
I lost $50 on the enterprise.
Strange, but nobody involved was black.
Last edited by poorcountrypreacher; 09/24/20 08:06 AM.
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Re: Cotton harvester vs human picking - What are rates
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09/24/20 10:36 AM
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There was an awful lot of white folks that picked cotton back in the day. My mother had 14 brothers and sisters just because of that.
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Re: Cotton harvester vs human picking - What are rates
[Re: gman]
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09/24/20 10:50 AM
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doekiller
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Your mom’s house
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There was an awful lot of white folks that picked cotton back in the day. My mother had 14 brothers and sisters just because of that. Yep, my great grandmother was one of 18 kids. She lived until I was 12. She always told us about being in the cotton fields back to as early as she could remember. Her first memories were walking along behind her mother pulling a sack. they would leave the babies in the shade with one of the older women and everyone else, adult and child, would pick cotton.
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Re: Cotton harvester vs human picking - What are rates
[Re: doekiller]
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09/24/20 10:53 AM
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2Dogs
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There was an awful lot of white folks that picked cotton back in the day. My mother had 14 brothers and sisters just because of that. Yep, my great grandmother was one of 18 kids. She lived until I was 12. She always told us about being in the cotton fields back to as early as she could remember. Her first memories were walking along behind her mother pulling a sack. they would leave the babies in the shade with one of the older women and everyone else, adult and child, would pick cotton. Good ol' Southern White privilege.
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Re: Cotton harvester vs human picking - What are rates
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09/24/20 10:59 AM
09/24/20 10:59 AM
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abolt300
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My dad's family paid the blacks to come out from town and help them pick on their farm and they picked right alongside them. Blacks got paid, he and his brothers and sisters did not. Not only that, but all the family boys were each expected to have picked at least 30-40% more than the "paid pickers" or they had a date with my grandfather's belt just after sundown later that afternoon, for been lazy and not working hard. Truth. I've head it from every single one of my uncles on more than one occasion. Just like you said 2dogs, Southern White Privilege
Last edited by abolt300; 09/24/20 11:00 AM.
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