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Mosty Family History
FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
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... cow kept them on the commons during the day. Kids were sent out after school to round up the cows & bring them home.
The gang I joined would gang up on the boys sent out & beat them up. I learned to ght real good & had lots of fun.
Dad cleared about 30 acres of mostly prairie land & planted it to cotton. Lee & I used our hoes all summer. When the crop was all picked in the fall we had 4 bales of cotton. It took 1800 ...
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... pounds of lint cotton then to gin out a 500# bale - now cotton runs half & half.
The cotton sold for 4 cents a pound so our years work for the family brought about $80.00. To get the cotton ginned we had to agree to haul the cotton seed off of the gin yard. There was no sale for cotton seed & most gins had huge mountains of seed that the farmers would not haul away.
In the fall of 1896 I planted my rst crop. Dad & Lee had left for Menard, Texas hunting work. Grandad ...