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To: Farmboy who wrote (215763)	6/28/2012 1:42:21 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

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!. Sounds like me. Some of my first jobs were raking and baling hay in the summers and also looking after a farmer's dry heifers that he kept on my parents' land. $1.25 an hour sounds about right. I don't recall the exact amount but it likely wasn't much more than that. I also repaired fences and painted barns.

To: Farmboy who wrote (215763)	6/28/2012 2:00:04 PM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

You definitely had some real farm experience. I grew up in South Texas, where my only farming experience was operating a John Deere cotton picking machine in the summers of my college years in the early '60s. It paid only $1 an hour, but it was 7 days a week and long hours each day, so it was a good amount of spending money for the following school year. My record picking day was 23 bales. It was hot, tiring work, like you said, but I'm glad I had a chance to do it.