Posted by smalltowner on November 23, 2016 at 12:51:37 from (166.137.118.61):
In Reply to: Re: Cotton Farmers posted by Zach from TX on November 22, 2016 at 19:31:07:
Do you remember the Oliver 2 row pull type strippers? Model 23A I think, not sure, but they were everywhere in this (Ellis) county back in the fifties when cotton was king here. A 30 HP tractor would pull one but 40 or more was better. I remember a lot of Farmall M or Oliver 77's pulling them. You had to have a guy in the trailer "throwing back" to fill the trailer with about 2 bales worth of loose cotton and then off to the gin. The cotton was defoliated with a sprayer in September which killed the leaves. Nowadays they wait for the first killing frost because the defoliate was outlawed. Spraying cotton was a bad job and probably did a lot of harm to some farmers back then.
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