Picking cucumbers - When you live on the farm is good to have a cash crop. We had two cash crops actually I guess there were three. The crop that was the most labor-intensive was cucumbers. We divided our acreage into two parts because you had to pick the cucumbers every other day. If you didn't pick them every other day they got too large. The smaller the cucumber the more you were paid per pound. Cucumbers were rated as one two three or cull. Grade one was the smallest cucumber and although you could be paid more per pound it took more of them to make a pound. So we actually made more money on grade two. During cucumber harvest time we work six days a week. Since we rotated feels every other day and took Sunday off the patch that we picked on Monday and Tuesday at three days growth and were larger. Harvesting cucumbers is a labor-intensive job. To pick them by hand and find them in amongst the vines not an easy thing to do because the vines and the cucumbers are both green. And since they're so closely grounded is backbreaking job. In removing the cucumber from the vine there is some juice where the cucumber comes loose from the vine. This juice stains your hands and sustain is one that builds up over time. There is no soap made by man that can remove it. You must wear it into you where it off. It's easy to find a cucumber picker because his hands will be black. I said hands actually its fingers and the palm of the hand.

Most of the form work we did we did not get paid for doing it. But the cash crops my father paid us, for cucumbers we were paid by the bushel. While we got paid for the work it was still a good deal for my father because we had to use the money we made to buy our school clothes.