https://chloesblog.bigmill.com/williamston-in-the-news/ Things that happen on the farm at Big Mill B&B, fun things to do in eastern NC and my crafts & recipes. Sat, 11 Feb 2017 02:46:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://chloesblog.bigmill.com/williamston-in-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-3648 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:40:16 +0000 http://chloesblog.bigmill.com/?p=4163#comment-3648 Picking in “high cotton” in my day in southern Alabama meant that the cotton stalks had grown high enough that the folks doing the picking did not have to bend over so far to pluck the fiber from the boles. Short cotton stalks meant more back-breaking hot sweaty work geting the ninety pound load of cotton in the nine-foot long cotton sack. I became an engineer so I could quit picking cotton. The machine that does the gathering now was called a “cotton puller” because it pulled the dry sticky boles off with the soft white fiber. We were forbidden to get the husk with the white. If that happened the price paid for picking would drop and the picker would probably be fired.

]]> https://chloesblog.bigmill.com/williamston-in-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-3392 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:00:40 +0000 http://chloesblog.bigmill.com/?p=4163#comment-3392 Chloe,
 
Happy Birthday to you!
 
Wayne

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