“I used to pick apples on weekends when I was in high school (1980s) and I got 50 cents a crate with usually 40-60 crates per tree for a big tree if I got one. Usually 20-30 boxes was the norm. “
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While active duty at Loring AFB, Maine, we got to see every year the kids get out of school for the potato picking.
Adults thought it was great, as well as the kids. Farming communities are tight on funds and the money the kids made would go a long way in that part of the state.
I’m sure lefties/liberals would cry and moan about using the kids as labor....
Even as late as the 1960s rural schools in the deep South used to let kids out for cotton picking. This was both black and white schools. My husband and his brothers used to go to the grandparents farm and pick. Hot, hard work.