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Originally Posted by on2wheels52
Was 13, think we earned $1/hour pulling weeds out of soybean fields (except the 120 acres of ours, that was a freebee).
Jim
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What did the farmers in your area call "pulling weeds out of soybean fields" (I'm assuming they didn't use that phrase). Around here we used "walking beans" which made sense because you spent the day walking between the rows chopping out any weeds you came across with a hoe. I got a job with a guy in Indiana who hired me to "chop beans." I thought I was going to drive a tractor pulling a flail chopper. Turned out I spent the day walking between the rows, chopping weeds out with a hoe for $1 an hour.