Posted by john in la on May 04, 2021 at 08:11:21 from (97.80.71.85):
In Reply to: Few short yesrs posted by grandpa Love on May 04, 2021 at 06:32:59:
It was the early 40's when black sharecroppers started coming out of the fields and moving north. They were taking war time jobs vacated by people fighting the war. The black population in the south was reduced by about 20% during the early 40's.
With no people to work the fields big land owners looked to mechanical cotton pickers. It was the late 40's before someone realized you need to add water to the picker to make it work and IH started mass producing combines.
Before this time most every boll of cotton was picked by hand. By 1960 most every boll of cotton was picked by a machine.
This same war was also the demise of cotton. Not able to get silk from the far east they invented nylon to make parachutes.
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