Oct.1, How things change!

When I, was a  10 yr. old, 56 yrs ago, to harvest peanuts was a different, more people involved to gather the crop. First you plowed two rows of peanuts up, next holes were put in the ground for a 12 ft. pole. Third slats were nailed to each pole, forming a cross to start stacking the peanut vines. For the stack poles, you had to cut small trees . The complete field would then be plowed up, and stacked on each pole, makeing sure to cap the top off, where rains would run off.

After the vines, and nuts had dried, with mule and ground slide, one by one the stack of peanuts would be pulled over and loaded on to the slide. The peanut combine did not move, the stacks were hauled to it. One man would pull the pole from each stack of peanuts, while another would, with pitch fork, throw the vines in to the combine, to remove the nuts from vine. One man would tub the picked nuts( as peanuts came off the vine, they were seperated in to containers) placeing in to truck or trailer. The peanut vines came out the back of combine (peanut hay ) one man would fork in hay baler, another would tie the bales, and another would stack the hay bales. How many people? Some where around 10. Today one man can plow up, combine, and bale the hay. please pray for America, and our troops. Later,   Riley