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Posted by 37 chief on February 03, 2007 at 22:26:55 from (70.181.164.242):
Growing up on the farm in the 50's there wasen't many ways to make a little spending money. One thing I did was tap gophers, dad payed 25 cents for everyone I trapped. When the lima beans were trashed the beans were brought to the stationary trasher. When they were finished us kids would pick up beans that had fallen to the ground. Dad payed 10 cents a pound for all the beans we would find. Dad did pay us some times for working in the fields. When I got older I got a 48 cushman scoter, and would ride it to town and do gardening work for 60 cents an hour. I thought I was really raking the money then. Time for bed. Stan
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