Smith: Scattering cotton

This time of the year, I always relate everything to hurricanes, football, cotton picking, and the 1951 playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. Recently, I rode through the countryside in northern Madison County, east of Georgia Highway 106, and saw a small cotton patch where there will be, soon enough, a mechanical cotton picker doing work that for so many ...

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