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To: Justin C who wrote (215741)	6/28/2012 1:33:24 PM
From: Farmboy	Read Replies (2) of 225578

Thanks Justin. All past (I hope! LOL) I was raised as one of four sons of a small sharecropper in Arkansas. Grew up picking and chopping cotton and beans by hand, both on the home farm, as well as hiring out to, or swapping work with neighbors. Chopping paid $.50 an hour, and picking paid $.03 per pound. Took jobs driving tractors for others during the summers of my Sophomore and Junior years in High school ... for what seemed at the time to be good money - $1.25 an hour!. The work was hot, tiring, and though we never thought much about it at the time, some of it was just pretty hazardous. Just kidding about hoping it was all in the past. I could go back tomorrow doing farm work and it wouldn't bother me a bit, other than the low pay (still). It certainly is more mechanized now, than it was back then. I understand though there is still some cotton chopping going on, as there just is no better way to get rid of the weeds than by walking the rows and taking them out with a hoe. I'm thankful for my rural roots. I have a perspective on many things that is different than someone raised in the urban areas, and it has helped me tremendously through the years. Are you connected with farming?

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