Posted by MartyinVa on July 27, 2008 at 09:00:15 from (52.129.8.50):
In Reply to: Re: Tobacco Crop posted by JBMac on July 27, 2008 at 05:32:24:
Picture is kinda small but it looks like flue cured.
The way I remember it, you took about 4 full of p!ss and vinegar teenage boys. Each had 2 rows a piece. You'd pull 2,3 maybe 4(whatever was ripe) leaves from the bottom of each plant. Once ya got your arm so full ya couldn't pack anymore under it, you put it in the backa slide being pulled down the middle row by an ole mule. When the slide was full someone usually on a Farmall cub or A would pull it back to the barn for tying. When ya had enough for a barn or sometimes 2, the boys would climb up in the barn on the tier poles and hang it for curing. After all was done and the farmer paid up for the days work, you headed off to town to find someone hanging out on the corner to go in the store and get you a cold beverage or 3. Maybe even a bottle of Ripple for the drive-in that night. Looking back, them was the good ole days. :>)
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