Are there not still Cotton Fields needing to be picked by someone/something?
Field experiences are likely still available.
My father put in a big Victory Garden in our large yard in 1943 when I was 5 and we had it until I was 16. I used to hate having to work on weekends with him when all my playmates were having fun. On the other hand when we had surplus zuchinni, tomatoes, and other items, he would let me sell them and keep the money. Black children among other not college bound students no longer have access to the non-college prep courses that actually prepared you to do something useful like fix cars, build things, cook, sew, etc. Then we wonder why illegals come here looking for the work that our students have not learned how to do.
First, if you did need manual labor for a farm operation....other than Mexican labor (illegally in the country), that’s your only option.
Second, you can do the math with salary to cotton-picked ratio, and attempting to hire six people (paying them minimum wage) simply doesn’t make sense with the cost of machinery as it is today.
My dad, years ago, got into a chat one day about the ‘rules’ of life, and how kids skipped roughly two to three weeks of school in the 1930s/1940s era to pick cotton off their farm, or the neighbor’s place. The pocket-money you made off this effort, usually went into a big day at the county fair.