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aq NB: Because when you pull the cotton out it sticks. The things sort of stick in you. It was a cold job. It was in October. We only had six months school back in there. We had to stay out at least two or three or sometimes a month to pick cotton for my daddy, KT: So for the dairy, where would you take the dairy products? Where were you-- NB: To town in,jugs, We'd have milk in jugs. My mother would mold butter, We had a butter mold, Have you ever seen a butter mold? KT: Um hmm, NB: My mother would mold the butter and wrap it up, and he'd take it to town. Sometimes maybe he might have it in a cooler or something like that, KT: But as far as selling, if most of the crops were used to feed the dairy cattle, right? NB: No. Uh uh, We always sold corn-- KT: You were selling, NB: Snap beans, We would shell butter beans and peas and all those things, They would go to town with them, I had to get on the street and just go down the street and sell them on both sides of the street, KT: So would you go to town as well sometimes to help sell or no? NB: Not very, I went a few times but not much. My brothers went, KT: Then the cotton, when did you stop growing cotton on the farm or your father? Would you have-- NB: Oh I don't know, Mary, do you remember when Papa stopped growing cotton? MARY: I don't know, I don't remember, NB: It's been a long time. KT: But it stopped sometime when you were a young adult maybe. NB: Oh yeah. KT: By the time you were an adult. As far as how about was there any hired help or was this all a family enterprise? NB: Occasionally we had this man, his name was Bohn Cole, KT: John Cole. NB: They used to come over and help on the fields some times, chopping and stuff like that, KT: But for the most part this was a family enterprise, NB: Yeah, mostly family uh huh. But I mean neighbors back in those days helped out each other. We had big wheat, we raised wheat. My daddy raised wheat. We always had a big wheat threshing. We always had a brg corn shucking. They'd pull the corn off the, whatever it grows on. KT: Stalk. NB: Stalk, and then put it out there in a pile. Then they'd have a big day, have a big crowd rn, The women would cook a big dinner down there, and the men would be shucking corn, KT: So you would have kind of a com shuck celebration. NB: Celebration, KT: And invite-- NB: Not all the neighbors, most of the neighbors would have a corn shucking because all the neighbors in this area were farmers. Nobody in this area much ever had tobacco, KT: No tobacco. NB: Very little. KT: Why is that? NB: I think my daddy one time had some tobacco. I think it was because of the land. They thought-- DB: I think the soil wasn't very good. NB: I think the soil was better on north, on the north side of Hillsborough because a lot of people over there sell, Page 2 of 2