Posted by qwertyell on November 05, 2013 at 12:39:53 from (199.38.230.169):
In Reply to: Re: Round bale cotton posted by samn40 on November 05, 2013 at 11:20:47:
Samn40, Cotton is processed so much differently now as compared to when I was a kid.(But hasn't everything changed?) As a kid in central Oklahoma in the '40s cotton was all hand work. We chopped our cotton three times with a cotton hoe, first thinning it out, then cleaning the grass and weeds out of it the next two times. Now as a kid that would warp your personality right there. Then all the cotton was picked or snapped by hand. Picking was done by pulling the cotton fibers and seed out of the boll. Snapping was done by "snapping" the boll with the cotton fibers intact. It was then put in a long canvas sack that was pulled by the poor stiff that was picking the cotton. When the sack was full or getting too hard to pull the sack was weighed and emptied into the wagon. About 2000 pounds of "snapped" cotton would make a 500 pound bale of cotton fibers.The fibers was separated from the boll and the seed at the gin. Today that all is done mechanically. They say, "Necessity is the mother of invention." Growing and processing cotton is living proof of that. Who knows what a personable guy I'd be today if it wasn't for having had that "cotton field" experience as a kid.
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