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cotton picking in the latter part of September and the first part of October. Pick the cotton, put it in sack. It was hot and your back ached. I only did it one time. You’d work all day to harvest 80 pounds and get paid 80 cents.
My senior year I got a job measuring cotton through the state’s Cotton Extension Service, working from four in the morning until school started for twenty-five cents and hour. In the past you’d measure cotton with chains out in the field, but that year they’d taken aerial photos. I’d draw straight lines around the edges of the cotton field photos and with a simple equation, estimate how much cotton was in each field.
Daddy on dust-bowl Depression farm-
ing:
A plains rancher wanted to borrow ten thousand dollars and told the banker he’d give his farm as security.
“I’ll have to see it first,” said the banker.
“No need,” said the farmer, “here comes the place now.”
Summers Daddy would provide some type of work for the school kids such as cutting the grass. Sometimes I’d help on the pump that
