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Mr. Mac climbed into his truck, and Dennis got in my car with me. There was no discussion, no asking questions, no, “Hey we are supposed to meet some girls” comment. Mr. Mac simply commanded respect by his very presence. We simply did what he told us to do. Over the course of the five-minute ride, Dennis told me what we were going to do. It would be an experience. Dennis and his family were fairly big farmers. Their property, a beautiful piece of land, touched a river. Den- nis and I would often ride horses there and just enjoy the beauty of the place. Their main crop was cotton, which is picked in the late summer and early fall. Once picked, it’s transported to a gin, where the seeds and trash are removed and bales of ginned cotton are formed. The same process occurs today, however, the cotton is transported in hydraulically compacted modules which hold 12 to 15 bales. Mechanical cotton pickers compress the cotton into round modules, wrap it in plastic, and leave it in the field as if laying an egg, and keep picking. A tractor then picks up the bale and moves it to an area from where it can be transported to the gin. In the late 1970s, back in the “good old days,” cotton was transported using either 3- or 5-bale, open-top trail- ers, which was pulled by a pickup truck. Workers would walk on the cotton dumped into the trailer in order to tamp
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it down. During picking season, cotton flew out of the trail- ers, forming a snowy edge along the road. The air had a certain smell to it, telling us summer was leaving and fall was around the next turn. Upon arrival at his family’s cotton gin, Dennis knew the task before us. I, however, was blissfully ignorant. Our job was to tarp the open-top trailers at the gin, as rain was forecast for later that evening. There were more than 25 trailers at the gin, all uncovered. We had a couple hours of daylight left. We had to hurry. To tarp the trailer, a worker had to tie off at one end and walk backward in the cotton while unrolling the tarp.
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