[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Maybe these people should detassle corn and walk bean fields. It's the worst job I've ever had but young people in Iowa do it each summer. Picking cotton would be easy compared to detassling corn. We walked the long rows of corn in scorching heat having to reach up and pull down the top of the corn stalk to pull out the tassles. All the while the leaves of the corn stalks were slashing your hot, sweaty arms like a thousand paper cuts.

I never made my children do it. They did walk beans. Their grandfather made them do it.

[Ditter]

I have never picked cotton but past generations of my and my husbands family did. Picking cotton required bending over and I would rather stand up and reach for corn tassels if I had the option.

[LucyJo]

I don’t know...your fingers and hands could get mighty sore from being stuck and cut by the dried bristles on the cotton plants; and, I don’t know if it would be harder to reach overhead all day, or stay stooped over dragging a cotton sack. Two of a whatness, as it was said, I’d think! : )