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Child labor When I was growing up on the farm in the 30s and 40s, there were 12 children in our family. My mother believed in organic farming way back then. She would not allow my father to put any kind of poisoning on our farm. To get the children out of the house, she would get each of us a Mason jar with a lid and make us go out to pick potato bugs off the potato bushes. If any of us did not have many bugs, she assumed we did not pick them clean, so we had to go pick our rows over again. When our cotton bushes began to have squares on them, she would make us get a peck bucket and go up one side of the hill of cotton and down the other side and pick up all the squares that had fallen off. These squares had boll weevils in them. We had to burn them. This helped make a better crop of cotton per acre. This is how we did organic farming. Geranium Tew Lugo |
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