Any One Useing a 28 Gauge Parker Hunting

[Harry Collins]

Most of you remember wages from 45 to 50 years ago. I earned $0.50 an hour unless we were bailing hay and I got a $1.00 an hour. When we were housing tobacco I earned $2.00 an hour or if I were cutting tobacco I earned $2.00 a hundred sticks (six stalks to the stick). I worked most of the summer to buy my first car, a 1947 Studebaker, for $60.00 and spent another $40.00 to put new tires all the way around and it cost another $125.00 to insure. A friend of my fathers slipped up on a BHE two barreled set for $100.00. Oh well.....

[Travis Sims]

Harry.......seems like the last time i cut by the stick was 10 or 11 cents a stick. Where i was from growing up, everybody raised tobacco. Now back home noone does. Its' a shame really, but i guess it's for the best?