My parents were also share croppers, but had a healthy savings account towards buying their own farm ..Since we kids were just getting big enough to do actual work in the fields no doubt Daddy could have ended up a wealthy man..He worked for awhile at a sawmill when I was about 5, but farmed too. He also used to 'swap' work with the neighbors when they had a 2 man job...We started picking cotton, etc at about 5 or 6 years old...Daddy tied a rag handle to a tow sack for us little ones..It was work or starve...I'd hate to turn ol Buzzard Bait loose in a cotton patch with a sharp hoe ! There was 8 of us and one on the way when my handsome blue eyed daddy died of Leukemia at age 34....Of course our plans went by the way side....Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:14:39 -0800 Emma Roses <roses4831@msn.com> writes: > > My mom and dad did all the things you mentioned in growing cotton, > but for the other person. They never owned the land. They did a > lot of share-cropping or they worked for the other person. I've > heard them talk about the different steps of growing and picking > cotton though. When I was 5 or 6 yrs old, I remember Mama gave me a > toe-sack and told me to go ahead of her on her row and fill it with > cotton. Of course she would be coming down the row behind me > making sure the cotton was picked correctly on that row. Dad would > hire out thru the week too. ! > .Emma ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210