2023.03.03 Reflections of Farm Life

kcm.MN · Mar 2, 2023

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db4600 · Mar 3, 2023

It doesnt say Green Giant on that shirt.

WalJohn · Mar 3, 2023

Looks like it says City Prison

rick n ohio · Mar 3, 2023

Hard workers right there

Richard G. · Mar 3, 2023

Those are good looking ears of corn.

showcrop · Mar 3, 2023

My son did that one summer when he was, I believe, 15 years old. The baskets were much smaller but the pickers kept him running from their rows to the wagon.

Crazy Horse · Mar 3, 2023

WalJon's comment on the City Prison shirt is interesting, he has a good eye. Hopefully he didn't recognize the shirt .... ha! Do you think there are still prison work gangs these days very much? I'm sure there are but certainly not back-breaking labour. And only for minimal security prisoners probably. Jail guards up here are not armed I don't think, at least not inside prison walls.

showcrop · Mar 3, 2023

(quoted from post at 07:41:17 03/03/23) WalJon's comment on the City Prison shirt is interesting, he has a good eye. Hopefully he didn't recognize the shirt .... ha! Do you think there are still prison work gangs these days very much? I'm sure there are but certainly not back-breaking labour. And only for minimal security prisoners probably. Jail guards up here are not armed I don't think, at least not inside prison walls.

I used to supply my county jail with detergents for the kitchen and laundry. They had some good guys that worked in both areas. The supt. of maint. told me to not talk to the prisoners about the equipment, but they seemed to be the only ones who cared about how things worked. I was at the county farm once to return the Brillion seeder that I had borrowed, and the helper that the Farmer brought with him was a former customer Jimmie. I had known that he associated with shady people. He said "well you play with fire you get burned."

WalJohn · Mar 3, 2023

We have prisoner work gangs in Virginia You see them sometimes clearing brush along the highway with their armed guards.

flying belgian · Mar 3, 2023

Something don't seam right to me. Picking corn by hand is pre-40's and I didn't think they had those power lines and structures back then.

Bonnan · Mar 3, 2023

Good observation however there were such power lines pre 40's in my neighborhood.

Brian G. NY · Mar 3, 2023

(quoted from post at 15:41:17 03/03/23) WalJon's comment on the City Prison shirt is interesting, he has a good eye. Hopefully he didn't recognize the shirt .... ha! Do you think there are still prison work gangs these days very much? I'm sure there are but certainly not back-breaking labour. And only for minimal security prisoners probably. Jail guards up here are not armed I don't think, at least not inside prison walls.

When I worked at The Wallkill Prison here in N.Y. State we had a thousand acres, most of it farmed. We had 300 head of cattle, a pasteurizing plant with a 20 Qt. bag and box system. We had a refrigerated truck on the road daily picking up bag and boxed milk from our place and 4 other prison farms, delivering to other prisons without farms. We also had apple orchards and a USDA inspected slaughter house. Inmates worked the farm under the supervision of a Farm Manager and several civilian farmers. The most trusted inmates got to work the acreage with only minimal supervision by a patrolling Correction Officer.
Unfortunately, a few years after I retired in '95, the state did away with all the farms. It wasn't exactly profitable when factoring in the salaries of the civilian staff. I always thought there was something to be said for teaching the inmates work ethic. I bet most of them were proud to tell their kids and grandkids they once milked cows, harvested crops or butchered beef. Oh well!

showcrop · Mar 3, 2023

(quoted from post at 11:33:47 03/03/23) Something don't seam right to me. Picking corn by hand is pre-40's and I didn't think they had those power lines and structures back then.

my friend supplies a number of supermarkets daily and picks by hand. He bought a picking machine twenty years ago but used it just one season.

stevieb49829 · Mar 3, 2023

We have Con Crews cleaning litter along out roads every year. steve

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