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Originally Posted by ducati1974
When I was in my early teens I worked on a tobacco farm. it was an awful job making a pittance for pay. The day i quit we were sitting in mud in the rows of tobacco suckering the plants in a steady rain. I don't recall ever being so miserable!
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I too as a young teen worked picking cotton - for 2 cents a pound. We crawled down the rows with a long burlap bag dragged behind - where we put the cotton we picked. We tried to pick as early as they would let you, as the dew was still on the cotton and weight more, when the sun was high we quite and weight out - the scale was a 2X4 like a see-saw If you made tobacco you got $5 a day and if you drove the mule you got $7 a day. I never worked tobacco.
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