I too like the 4th panel, except for us in 60’s in WI, it was cucumbers and a big sorting machine in some family’s barn, but those same scales (some more primitive with weights you would shift around), 70 cents for 100 pounds of large cucumbers (No. 7’s) , and maybe 14 dollars for 100 pounds of “No. 1’s”, corresponding to the smallest pickle you would see in a store. Pop machine/cooler, lift the lid, put in a dime and then pull a glass bottle out, and run around and play (if you had any energy left) with the other families there with their pickups full of gunny sacks for the days pickin’s, waiting their turn to unload.
I think I remember that school. The one where you scratched your sums on a shovel with a rock….and it was a long walk to school – had to wake up 3 hours before we went to bed…
I too like the 4th panel, except for us in 60’s in WI, it was cucumbers and a big sorting machine in some family’s barn, but those same scales (some more primitive with weights you would shift around), 70 cents for 100 pounds of large cucumbers (No. 7’s) , and maybe 14 dollars for 100 pounds of “No. 1’s”, corresponding to the smallest pickle you would see in a store. Pop machine/cooler, lift the lid, put in a dime and then pull a glass bottle out, and run around and play (if you had any energy left) with the other families there with their pickups full of gunny sacks for the days pickin’s, waiting their turn to unload.