Posted by MF#1 on February 01, 2022 at 17:29:39 from (69.40.61.7):
In Reply to: Hard Labor On The Farm posted by aFORDable on February 01, 2022 at 12:35:34:
There was a labor study done back in the 60's? that found it took 30 hours of work to grow an acre of corn, tobacco(burley) took 300, that was well before machinery was involved in harvesting tobacco and before no-till corn was the norm. I grew up milking a dozen cows by hand and raising several acres of tobacco, besides the corn and hay crops with my Dad, one brother and one uncle. Our largest crop was over 20 acres before I finished college and left for the military. There is no other job I've ever done that compares to cutting and housing tobacco, all done by hand, day after day, until you finally get it in the barn. But, as mentioned, tobacco paid the bills, but you paid a price for the process.
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